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is a real producing life-principle, directed to the periphery. the fact that, in plant, organs push their way outward is proof that the spiral tendency dominates the life of plants..

The spiral is, according to Goethe, a 'real producing life-principle, directed to the periphery': that 'spiral vessels' in plant organs push their way outward is proof that the spiral tendency dominates the life of plants.

is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious... it has been set free.

The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.

is also leading constantly to new discoveries.

also leading constantly to new discoveries' (p.423).

is an archetypal symbol that represents cosmic force.

is dialectical as compared to the circle which is theological. like a circle, it is distended to infinity, but on it, things recur, but at another level: there is a return in difference, not repetition in identity.

ing has been said, but rather: nothing is first yet everything is new. In a short essay on the work of visual artist Bernard Réquichot, which was first published in 1973 and later appeared, in English translation, in the collection The Responsibility of Forms, Roland Barthes juxtaposes the contours of the spiral with those of the circle. 'The circle,' he writes, 'is religious, theological... the spiral, like a circle distended to infinity, is dialectical: on the spiral, things recur, but at another level: there is a return in difference, not repetition in identity. Thanks to [the spiral], we are not constrained to believe: everything has been said, or: nothing has been said, but rather: nothing is first yet everything is new.'2

is itself a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

is maintained at the cost of circularity itself, i.e. spirally.

which means 'self-making'... emphasizing the self-referential and self-organizing nature of the network of production processes that produce and transform one another in a continual process of self-making.

is simply a failed circle. When we come to the end of a cycle we ought to move up to another level and proceed accordingly.

simply a failed spiral. I think that when we come to the end of a cycle we ought to move up to another level and proceed accordingly.

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