The Physics of the Poor

A Neurodivergent Meta-Theory of Consciousness
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-6951-9128-4
Verlag: BoD - Books on Demand

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 292 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 120 mm x 190 mm, Gewicht: 313 g

Reihe: Artistic Research - Critical Neurodiversity and Science

Whoever possesses objects, products, things - is deemed valuable. Whoever possesses none - is deemed worthless.
This was the lived experience of the British-Austrian autistic artist Timothy Speed through many years of poverty. His response was radical: to rewrite physics itself - to base the world not upon things, but upon nothingness.
This seemingly small artistic manoeuvre has far-reaching consequences for physics, consciousness research, and the structures of politics, economy, and society.
The Physics of the Poor is not an essay, nor a theoretical game - it is a complete, original structural theory of reality.
With the MNO (Minimal Non-Object), the Triad of Submergence, and the All-Nothing Paradox, Timothy Speed formulates a fundamental ontology that does not replace the prevailing models of consciousness (IIT, GNW, SOC), but rather integrates and transcends them on a deeper level. He demonstrates that consciousness cannot be explained as a mere consequence of complexity - but as an emergent decision arising within a structural gap.
This work offers a new response to the hard problem of consciousness - no longer asking for the origin of qualia, but for the form of emptiness out of which subjectivity itself arises. The gap becomes the source; nothingness becomes the productive principle. In doing so, Speed interweaves theoretical physics, philosophy, phenomenological experience, and social reality into a coherent metastructure.
The Physics of the Poor is a work of artistic research - a radical form of thinking from the boundary: philosophical, political, existential. It introduces not only new concepts but a different epistemology - one emerging from autism, from poverty, from the outside.
This book is a rupture with academic habit - and perhaps precisely for that reason, what academia needs now.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Speed, Timothy

Über Autor(innen)

Speed, Timothy
Timothy Speed (b. 1973, England) is an artist, author, and neurodivergent theorist. As an autistic person with ADHD, he lives what he writes about-in poverty, in conflict with systems, and with a mode of thinking that runs counter to the mainstream. His research is provocative and profound: for physics, for philosophy, and for society. Through self-experimentation, institutional investigations, and radically embodied theory, Speed develops a new perspective on consciousness, reality, and power. At its core lies the MNO theory, a model that derives nonlocality, subjectivity, and social order from a structural gap. From the exception to the rule.

Speed does not conduct research about the world, he folds into it, inhabits it like an open laboratory. His texts are the imprint of this practice: wild, precise, uncomfortable.

What if reality doesn´t consist of things, but of what is missing between them? What if we are merely the answer to a void? And what would that mean for our freedom?

Timothy Speed:
Timothy Speed (b. 1973, England) is an artist, author, and neurodivergent theorist. As an autistic person with ADHD, he lives what he writes about-in poverty, in conflict with systems, and with a mode of thinking that runs counter to the mainstream. His research is provocative and profound: for physics, for philosophy, and for society. Through self-experimentation, institutional investigations, and radically embodied theory, Speed develops a new perspective on consciousness, reality, and power. At its core lies the MNO theory, a model that derives nonlocality, subjectivity, and social order from a structural gap. From the exception to the rule.

Speed does not conduct research about the world, he folds into it, inhabits it like an open laboratory. His texts are the imprint of this practice: wild, precise, uncomfortable.

What if reality doesn´t consist of things, but of what is missing between them? What if we are merely the answer to a void? And what would that mean for our freedom?