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This chapter analyzes the conditions for the formation of thought by revisiting Plato's notion of chora and evaluating it in relation to philosophical notions of negation and black holes. Chora and black holes are immaterial objects that serve as openings for something to take place whenever each new development leads back to the unfathomable within the form. By circumscribing an object of perception, the border blurs the difference between inside and outside, and makes it possible to grasp how emptiness is needed for fullness to exert its full effect. Such traversing of boundaries and overcoming habitual binary opposites is a distinguishing feature of edusemiotics as a conceptual framework that informs this chapter. The return to the "unthought', while preserving the non-separation of presence and absence, makes it possible to go beyond human limitations and to forge new networks of infinite becoming. The chapter employs the discourse of art positing that it may be possible to conceptualize the continuum of existence and the possibility of the renewal of subjectivity, individual and universal. Revisiting Hegel's dialectics and Julia Kristeva's return to chora, the chapter presents the condition for the transformation of signs in experience.

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-1495-6_18

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