partial connection

is the idea that there is no such thing as parts and wholes. The world is not fragmented but fractal. When enacting the living world, we also enact holes.

It is especially her argument about the world being fractal rather than fragmented that is central. She has presented this argument in her book 'Partial Connections' (2004 updated edition). Strathern argues that we always only have access to making partial connections. There is (according to Strathern) no such thing as parts and wholes. When enacting the living world, we also enact holes. She argues that the world is always both one and multiply enacted it is always both a container and what is contained. We cannot see it all at once. (net)

partial connection, n.All

partial connection