Instability
Another consequence of this definition of material is the conclusion that material is always something unstable. It only exists through usage, only in a transformation and exchange between material components, which must always assume a specific relationship with one another. As the above description of the creation of this text illustrates, it only takes but one slight variation of a component for the process to arrive at a completely different result. (If my parents had not invested in my education in the past you would not read this text today.) The only stable point when working with material is the becoming-aware of the “self”. It serves as a hinge between the states of the fluid being-material and the fixed being-object or being-thing. As a stable threshold, it must be constantly crossed in both directions—the separation of the self and the stream of the subject-less material world—in order to bring the material into being or make it disappear out of sight. VThe various forms of instability in the process of becoming material then condense into one point, only to move away from each other again in their inherent restlessness. All this is material.
