Mansoorian, Ehsan: On the Metabolic Identity

On the Metabolic Identity is a short philosophical statement, in numbered propositions, on the recognition that contradiction is constitutive of identity. The piece states a single formal result: given an involutive negation N on a domain Φ and the axiom that the metabolism of any element with its own negation returns the element — M(x, N(x)) = x — the operation M is necessarily non-commutative. The proof is three lines. From this forced asymmetry the piece argues that direction in the fold of i