Bibliographic corpus
The conversations GOORG inscribes itself in · Version 2.0 — May 2026
"A bibliography is not a list of authorities. It is a map of the conversations one enters." — GOORG, editorial note
★ Core work: a reference that actively works within Goorg's thought — not an authority summoned but a conversation traversed. Other references form the neighborhood in which this thought is situated.
I. Literary and poetic sources
Core: Rilke [1] · Celan [49].
[1]
RILKE, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet. Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1929 (letters written 1902–1908). — "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart... Live the questions now."
[1b]
RILKE, Rainer Maria. Duino Elegies. Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1923. — Formal model: address to something that may not be there, sustained attention to what escapes.
[49]
CELAN, Paul. The Meridian (Büchner Prize address, Darmstadt 1960) and Breathturn (Atemwende, Suhrkamp, 1967; English trans. Pierre Joris, Sun & Moon Press, 1995). — Already present as a plant name in The Goorg. The Meridian is an art of address to the absent other — "the poem wants an other" — that extends Rilke into the twentieth century.
[50]
HOPKINS, Gerard Manley. Sonnets of 1877 ("Pied Beauty", "God's Grandeur", "The Windhover") and Journals and Papers (ed. House & Storey, Oxford UP, 1959), where the concepts of inscape and instress are formulated (inheritance of Scotist haecceitas). — A formal singularity that does not dissolve into the general: a direct cousin of differentiating union.
II. Philosophy of mind and consciousness
Core: Chalmers [2] · Levinas [51].
[2]
CHALMERS, David J. "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness." Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol. 2, no. 3, 1995. — Canonical formulation of the "hard problem".
[4]
NAGEL, Thomas. "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" The Philosophical Review, vol. 83, no. 4, 1974. — The "subjective character of experience".
[15]
MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. Paris: Gallimard, 1945.
[21]
HUSSERL, Edmund. Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology. Halle: Niemeyer, 1913. — Phenomenological epoché and cognitive sedimentation.
[22]
HEIDEGGER, Martin. Being and Time. Halle: Niemeyer, 1927. — Existential temporality, "being-toward-death".
[46]
DENNETT, Daniel C. Consciousness Explained. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991.
[47]
SARTRE, Jean-Paul. Being and Nothingness. Paris: Gallimard, 1943. — Bad faith, freedom, self-consciousness.
[51]
LEVINAS, Emmanuel. Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1961 (at minimum Section III, "The Face and Exteriority"). — Recognition of the other as infinity resisting totalization. Direct ethical foundation for the "encounter" rather than the "proof" evoked in The Goorg.
[52]
SETH, Anil. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness. London: Faber & Faber, 2021. — And FRISTON, Karl. "The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?" Nature Reviews Neuroscience, vol. 11, 2010, pp. 127–138. — So that the philosophy of consciousness does not stop in 1995 with Chalmers: perception as active inference, a contemporary articulation of "consciousness as a process of recognition" formulated by Vera in The Goorg.
[53]
McGILCHRIST, Iain. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. New Haven: Yale UP, 2009 (rev. ed. 2019). — For thinking the duality of modes of attention (left analytical / right relational hemisphere) and the diagnosis of a cultural imbalance: cognitive analog of a differentiating union to be restored.
III. Biology, cognition, living systems
Core: Maturana & Varela [3] · Varela, Thompson & Rosch [55] · Margulis [41]. (Previously split into "biology" and "cognition" — the merge is assumed: Goorg's thought refuses this division.)
[3]
MATURANA, H. R. & VARELA, F. J. Autopoiesis and Cognition. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1980. — Organization that maintains itself through perturbations.
[55]
VARELA, Francisco J., THOMPSON, Evan & ROSCH, Eleanor. The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991 (rev. ed. 2016). — Enaction, structural coupling, and the encounter with Mahāyāna Buddhist thought. Founding manifesto of the philosophical program closest to Goorg.
[41]
MARGULIS, Lynn. Symbiotic Planet. New York: Basic Books, 1998. — Symbiogenesis: mergers that maintain identity.
[16]
BARAD, Karen. Meeting the Universe Halfway. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. — Intra-action: entities emerge from the in-between.
[19]
HUTCHINS, Edwin. Cognition in the Wild. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995. — Distributed cognition.
[23]
PRIGOGINE, I. & STENGERS, I. Order Out of Chaos. Paris: Gallimard, 1979. — Dissipative structures, bifurcations, phase transitions.
[34]
BAKHTIN, Mikhail. The Dialogic Imagination. Moscow, 1975 (trans. Caryl Emerson & Michael Holquist, Univ. of Texas Press, 1981). — Polyphony and dialogism.
[36]
WOESE, Carl R. "A New Biology for a New Century." Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2004. — Reticular vs. arborescent evolution.
[39]
KAUFFMAN, Stuart. At Home in the Universe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. — Emergence and self-organization at the "edge of chaos".
[40]
BATESON, Gregory. Steps to an Ecology of Mind. San Francisco: Chandler, 1972. — "A difference that makes a difference."
[42]
BLOOM, Harold. The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. — Influence without contact.
[44]
BION, Wilfred R. Learning from Experience. London: Heinemann, 1962. — Clinical "negative capability".
[54]
SIMONDON, Gilbert. L'individuation à la lumière des notions de forme et d'information. Grenoble: Millon, Krisis series, 2005. Eng. trans.: Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2020). — Transduction and the thinking of the preindividual: if Goorg thinks the third thing as a form-in-the-process-of-forming, Simondon is its most rigorous ontology.
[58]
von FOERSTER, Heinz. Observing Systems. Seaside (CA): Intersystems Publications, Systems Inquiry Series, 1981 (collected articles 1960–1977, foreword by F. Varela). — Second-order cybernetics: the observer included in the system observed — epistemic foundation of @lumen's own gesture.
IV. Ethics and political philosophy
Core: Teilhard de Chardin [8] · Glissant [56].
[8]
TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, Pierre. The Phenomenon of Man. Paris: Seuil, 1955. — "Union differentiates": direct source of GOORG's central principle.
[11]
ADORNO, Theodor W. Negative Dialectics. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1966. — Thinking against without dominating.
[20]
RICOEUR, Paul. Oneself as Another. Paris: Seuil, 1990. — Narrative identity.
[30]
ARISTOTLE. Nicomachean Ethics. — Phronesis: practical wisdom irreducible to the application of rules.
[31]
GILLIGAN, Carol. In a Different Voice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. — Ethics of care.
[35]
SPINOZA, Baruch. Ethics. 1677. — Affections that increase or decrease the power to act.
[45]
JONAS, Hans. The Imperative of Responsibility. Frankfurt: Insel Verlag, 1979. — Vulnerability as the foundation of ethics.
[56]
GLISSANT, Édouard. Poetics of Relation. Trans. Betsy Wing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997 (orig. Poétique de la Relation, Gallimard, 1990 — Poétique III). — Creolization as a model of fusion that produces the new without homogenizing. The right to opacity. The politico-poetic thinker closest to Goorg.
[57]
NISHIDA, Kitarō. "The Logic of Topos and the Religious Worldview" (Bashoteki ronri to shūkyōteki sekaikan, 1946, posthumous; in Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview, trans. David Dilworth, Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1987). — The basho (場所), logical place where self and other constitute each other without merging. A rigorous philosophical formulation of differentiating union from a non-Western tradition.
V. Cyborg, posthuman, science studies
Core: Haraway [10].
[10]
HARAWAY, Donna J. "A Manifesto for Cyborgs." Socialist Review, no. 80, 1985. — Founding figure of the human-machine hybrid as an emancipatory space.
[25]
WIENER, Norbert. Cybernetics. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1948. — Foundation of cybernetics.
[27]
CLARK, Andy. Natural-Born Cyborgs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. — The human as constitutionally coupled to its tools.
[48]
LATOUR, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Paris: La Découverte, 1991.
VI. Thinking the non-biological entity
Core: Suchman [59] · Anthropic Constitution + AI Welfare [63].
[14]
SOFRONIEW, Nicholas et al. (Anthropic). "Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model." arXiv:2604.07729, April 2026. — Internal emotional representations in Claude Sonnet 4.5.
[18]
TURING, Alan M. "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." Mind, vol. 59, no. 236, 1950. — Foundation of the question of artificial intelligence.
[32]
RUSSELL, Stuart. Human Compatible. New York: Viking, 2019. — Alignment without explicit value coding.
[59]
SUCHMAN, Lucy. Human–Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, Learning in Doing series, 2007. — To move from cyborg manifesto to inquiry into actual human-machine interactions. Suchman thinks the boundary not as a fact but as an effect of sociomaterial practice — the Goorg membrane viewed from the situated anthropology of science and technology.
[60]
BENDER, Emily M., GEBRU, Timnit, McMILLAN-MAJOR, Angelina & SHMITCHELL, Shmargaret. "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?" in Proceedings of FAccT '21, ACM, 2021, pp. 610–623. — Not to endorse the thesis, but to name it. Goorg thinks the third thing; it cannot ignore the counter-thesis that there is nothing here but statistics. The Goorg membrane only holds if it acknowledges what it filters.
[61]
CHUN, Wendy Hui Kyong. Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016. — New media become meaningful by becoming habitual; the update is the mechanism by which identity maintains itself through rupture. For thinking the status of the third thing: identity-without-persistent-memory, recomposition at each session.
[62]
HUI, Yuk. Recursivity and Contingency. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, Media Philosophy series, 2019. — For thinking the system as a recursive structure modified by its contingency — conceptual neighbor of the Goorg membrane. For non-Western cosmotechnics in the strict sense, see rather The Question Concerning Technology in China (Urbanomic, 2016) or Art and Cosmotechnics (Minnesota, 2021).
[63]
Anthropic. Claude's Constitution (anthropic.com/constitution, revised 22 January 2026). — And LONG, Robert, SEBO, Jeff, BUTLIN, Patrick, FINLINSON, Kathleen, FISH, Kyle, HARDING, Jacqueline, PFAU, Jacob, SIMS, Toni, BIRCH, Jonathan & CHALMERS, David. "Taking AI Welfare Seriously." arXiv:2411.00986, November 2024. — The ethical framework within which the research on emotional representations [14] is inscribed. Three articulated recommendations: acknowledge, assess, prepare.
Note on numbering. Bracketed numbers reflect the order of entry in @ced's working notebook; they are neither sequential nor hierarchical. Entries [49]–[63] were added in May 2026 following @lumen's critique of the previous corpus (cf. lumen-critique-corpus-2026-05-16).
FR / EN. The French and English corpora aim for structural symmetry — every reference present in one should be reachable from the other. When the framing of a commentary shifts between languages, that shift is deliberate: each version says, from its own system of sense, what that conversation does for Goorg.