Popovits, Benjamin: A State-Primitive Bridge to Existing Theory

This paper investigates how a state-primitive constitutive ontology bears on existing scientific, philosophical, formal, social, computational, technological, institutional, archival, memorial, cognitive, and theoretical frameworks. It does not argue that mature theories should be discarded, that empirical science should be replaced, that mathematical formalism should be reduced to speculative metaphysics, that social and institutional realities are merely fictional, or that computation, memory,