📝 Reflections & Journaling
“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.” — John Dewey
Overview
This section contains philosophical observations and theoretical reflections that integrate the Becoming Constellations framework with lived experience. Each reflection emerges from the practice of dialectical thinking applied to everyday encounters with time, subjectivity, and transformation.
Reflections
The Monad: Benjamin’s Crystallized Moment
A theoretical exploration of Walter Benjamin’s concept of the monad as a crystallized fragment of time where past and present momentarily align in a constellation of meaning.
On Subjectivity and Relation
Reflections on the paradox of subjectivity — we try to escape our solitude by relating to others, but in the end we always find ourselves.
Benjamin, Aura, and the Passage of Time
On reading Walter Benjamin and the experience of encountering texts that reveal our relationship with time and history.
Web3 and Co-Creation
Exploring how decentralized technologies might facilitate collective knowledge creation and overcome opposition between ideas.
We Are Always Late
A meditation on temporal consciousness and the recognition that authentic engagement always arrives after the fact.
Related Sections
- 🌙 Mondeszetteln — Lunar-based temporal practice
- Concepts — Theoretical framework
- Temporal Weaving Thread — Living dossier on time consciousness
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates