Contrary to the irresolute intersection of nature and consciousness, as in Merleau-Ponty’s conception of the chiasmus as a figure X by which the former is thought relative to the latter, the `rumbling chiasmus’ describes an obscure volcanism that subtends the consciousness it both engenders and destroys, all the while remaining indifferent to it.1
- my thanks to Iain Hamilton Grant for his assistance on this point. [↩]