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The Physics of the Poor

By Timothy Speed

The Physics of the Poor

By Timothy Speed

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Whoever possesses objects, products, things - is deemed valuable. Whoever possesses none - is deemed worthless.This was the lived experience of the British-Austrian autistic artist Timothy Speed through many years of poverty. His response was radical: to rewrite physics itself - to base the world not upon things, but upon nothingness.This seemingly small artistic manoeuvre has far-reaching consequences for physics, consciousness research, and the structures of politics, economy, and society.The Physics of the Poor is not an essay, nor a theoretical game - it is a complete, original structural theory of reality.With the MNO (Minimal Non-Object), the Triad of Submergence, and the All-Nothing Paradox, Timothy Speed formulates a fundamental ontology that does not replace the prevailing models of consciousness (IIT, GNW, SOC), but rather integrates and transcends them on a deeper level. He demonstrates that consciousness cannot be explained as a mere consequence of complexity - but as an emergent decision arising within a structural gap.This work offers a new response to the hard problem of consciousness - no longer asking for the origin of qualia, but for the form of emptiness out of which subjectivity itself arises. The gap becomes the source; nothingness becomes the productive principle. In doing so, Speed interweaves theoretical physics, philosophy, phenomenological experience, and social reality into a coherent metastructure.The Physics of the Poor is a work of artistic research - a radical form of thinking from the boundary: philosophical, political, existential. It introduces not only new concepts but a different epistemology - one emerging from autism, from poverty, from the outside.This book is a rupture with academic habit - and perhaps precisely for that reason, what academia needs now.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
292
Release Date:
2025-11-14
Publication Date:
2025-11-14
Publisher:
BoD - Books on Demand
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3695191287
ISBN13:
9783695191284
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
313 g
Height:
120 cm
Width:
190 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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