The Contact Point

This one turns toward touch:

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RHEO:
When does relation begin?

TOPO:
At the point of contact.
When one becomes aware of another.

RHEO:
But isn’t contact already a kind of becoming?

TOPO:
Yes. A surface, meeting a surface.
Each defined by what it touches.

RHEO:
Then relation is not between things.
It is the touch itself.

TOPO:
A third space.
Not you. Not me. The interval we inhabit.

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RHEO & TOPO:
Touch is not the crossing of boundaries.
It is the mutual arising of the boundary itself.