Reseña

The new emerging paradigm has not crystallized yet because the subject capable of thinking it must crystallize first. The fractal hyper-being is that subject, which already exists but remains nebulous, without a label, and unaware of itself.
This book explores the implications of fractal identity in four areas of philosophy: knowledge, ethics, philosophical anthropology, and argumentation. It does so through examples, by applying it to specific topics within each area: from otherness and terrorism, fundamentalisms, or migration, diversity or gender issues, to economics, ecology, or the relationships between science and art, or between image and argumentation. It compares, in each item, the outcomes of an approach from the usual anthropology of the being, or from that of the hyper-being; it shows how questions and research lines change, and most importantly, how individual action possibilities transform.
The concept of fractal that the book explains and the use of that concept that it developes is what what the myriad of partial intuitions found in books, papers, and the internet need to synergize and come together. It’s a click that makes everything fit and find its place. This is not a new grand narrative but an image that allows the place of each perspective to be visualized in relation to the whole in a productive way.
It has the rare virtue of harmonizing extreme diversity with unity; immanence with transcendence, change with permanence, contradiction with coherence.
Applied to the problem of identity, it enables new ways of constructing the Other (including non humans and things as another type of Other), the Female Other, and the Others; ways that can work today and tomorrow, for the Sapiens we still are and for whatever we decide to become. Applied to time, change, problem-solving, and decision-making, it allows us, at the same time, to steer the ongoing transformations, to function while redesigning ourselves, and to recreate the ability to coexist.