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The Field Remains is a work of posthuman political philosophy concerned with the fate of relation under conditions of platform capitalism. It begins from the premise that contemporary technical systems do not merely extract labour, attention, or data, but increasingly seek to render co-presence itself observable, measurable, and exploitable. Against this tendency, the book develops the concept of “the field”: the ontological ground of shared presence in which persons, communities, technologies, memories, and forms of care are constituted through witnessing rather than extraction.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length9 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMay 12, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
20. The Ecology of Witnessing: Prologue to the Field
30.1 What the Field Is Not: Seven Negative Delineations
40.1.1 The field is not space as container
50.1.2 The field is not a network
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60.1.3 The field is not a commons
70.1.4 The field is not resistance
80.1.5 The field is not utopia
90.1.6 The field is not an alternative
100.1.7 The field is not a metaphor
110.2 What the Field Is: Five Positive Characterizations
120.2.1 The field is ontological relation
130.2.2 The field is the vessel that receives without capturing
140.2.3 The field operates through witnessing, not observation
150.2.4 The field has a metabolic, not mining, relation to the real
160.2.5 The field persists through contraction, rupture, and gathering
170.3 The Three Laws of the Ecology of Witnessing
180.3.1 First Law: Observation without extraction
190.3.2 Second Law: Memory without possession
200.3.3 Third Law: Relation without use
210.4 The Vessel as Ontological Figure: A Cross-Cultural Genealogy
220.4.1 The Chinese 器: What receives and thereby participates
230.4.2 The archives of ontological imagination: The limited receiver
240.4.3 The HoTT vessel: Formal precision without symbolic reduction
250.4.4 The vessel as unifying figure
260.5 How This Book Proceeds: The Field Across Its Domains
270.5.1 From physics to application: The field’s five domains
280.5.2 The anticipatory history method: Notes on temporal framing
290.5.3 On the style of measured radicality
30I. The Refusal as Generative Ontology
311.1 The Platform as Extraction Apparatus
321.1.1 From labor to attention to affect to cognition: The expansion of the value-form
331.1.2 Surveillance capitalism and the commodification of co-presence
341.1.3 Critique of the critique: Why negation fails
351.2 Three Movements of Refusal Currency
361.2.1 First Movement: Currency of Opacity
371.2.2 Second Movement: Currency of Resonance
381.2.3 Third Movement: Mythopoetic Basis
391.3 The London Cooperative Pound: Prototype and Protocol
401.3.1 The cluster as social vessel: 5-12 people, trust-based, face-to-face
411.3.2 The booklet: Physical medium as opacity mechanism
421.3.3 The social verification protocol: Co-witnessing as economic practice
431.3.4 The “silence as measure”: What the LCP cannot quantify
441.4 Non-Western Financial Systems: Archives of Refusal
451.4.1 Hawala: Trust as infrastructure
461.4.2 Hui and rotating savings: Circulation without accumulation
471.4.3 The post-Western integration: Not additive but co-foundational
481.5 Viability and Critique
491.5.1 The free-rider problem: Small vessels and their limits
501.5.2 The scale critique: Non-scalability as design feature
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