New
Materialism

Culture > etymology: Latin cultus, meaning a cult, a system of beliefs and act of worship. Culture is an inextricable part of all beings. It stems from the energy of a nation and is comparable to identity. The preservation of culture is important because it provides energy for the world through identity itself. If there is no culture, there is no energy to preserve identity, and thus there is no life. Culture involves neither progress, nor advancement; since it is connected to the cult, it implies cyclicity in all spheres of life. Advancement implies inconsistence as it demands change, while culture remains unaltered. In the sense of Neomaterialism or New Materialism, culture is all-encompassing; therefore, culture cannot exist in a Cartesian world – culture knows neither subject nor object as disunited entities. Cartesian thought needs to dissect culture and examine all its parts separately, and then connect them into one in order to make a conclusion about it. However, such acquired union is empty and lifeless, hence, it is not culture anymore, but an artificial concept, unable to yield neither energy nor life. Cartesian method is rendered futile because culture cannot be considered through a scientific method or instrument. It needs another dimension – sense – which is incompatible with a subject-object division.

keywords: cycle, cult, nature
genealogy: cultus, cult
synonym: energy, identity, cult
antonym: civilization, modernity, progress
hypernym: cult
hyponym: nation, cycle, beginning, end