form - content

identity

materiality

Japanese culture

Ship of Theseus

is a distinction whereby form is the internal organization of the content and content is the totality of relations and potentialities.

Form and Content are philosophical contents concerned with the contrast between the appearance (or significance) of a thing and its essence or existence. Form is the mode of existence, expression or internal organisation of the Content of a thing, while Content is in turn the totality of relations and potentialities of the same thing. (marxist.org)

is a hackneyed, yet powerful trick of representational thinking under which anything and everything may be consumed by seeing form as the rational and matter as the irrational.

Form and content are the most hackneyed concepts under which anything and everything may be subsumed. And if form is correlated with the rational and matter with the irrational... if the rational is taken to be the logical and the irrational the alogical... if in addition the subject-object relation is coupled with the conceptual pair form-matter... then representation has at its command a conceptual machinery that nothing is capable of withstanding. (Heidegger 'origin of the work' cezeaux : 83)

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form content