Beyond Dichotomy.
Welcome to Love & Philosophy, a project towards kaleidoscopic thinking, where we’re highlighting the patterns that connect across science, technology and philosophy, holding what might seem irreconcilable, all the while focusing on an expansive approach to life and mind that explores the connection of loving and knowing. New partnerships, ideas and collaborations are welcome. You can sign up for the newsletter here. Or reach out to admin(at)loveandphilosophy.com.
FAQ: Andrea’s book ‘Holding Paradox: the navigational approach to mind and consciousness’ is to be published in 2026. The much lighter 44-page Making Ways pamphlet Embracing Paradox is here. If you’re interested in the Making Ways philosophical index, you can sign up for that here. Most recent radical relation paper is here.
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Love is never quite what any one thinks it is.

Dialectic, Democracy & the Phenomenology of Double Consciousness
dialectic, democracy and double consciousness

An Evolving Web of Complex Relations
love as an evolving complex web

Care is a form of knowledge Friday Diary from September 5th
care is a form of knowledge. the friday diary with andrea hiott

Fractal Rubik’s Cubes and the Big Machine with Michael Garfield
Fractal Rubik’s Cube and The Big Machine with Michael Garfield

What is love? Friday Diary from August 29th
what is love? friday diary with andrea hiott

The Philosophy of Bioregionalism with Felix de Rosen and Andrea Hiott
The philosophy of bioregionalism with Felix de Rosen and Andrea Hiott

Loving & Knowing with Hanne De Jaegher
The core of knowing is loving with philosopher Hanne De Jaegher

Bringing Forth Worlds with philosopher Ezequiel Di Paolo and Mirko Prokop
Autopoiesis, Autonomy, and the Enactive Approach with Ezequiel Di Paolo

Wild Thinking with Jessica Böhme
wild thinking and ekoPhilosophy

Burning to Give with Tom Morgan
wall street, wisdom, woo, illness and insight

The Dao of Complexity with Jean Boulton
The surprising connections between Doaism and Complexity Science.

Residuality Theory and the Architect’s Paradox with Barry O’Reilly
Can we embrace uncertainty and order at once in our software?

Hill Making with tech maverick Kevin Kelly
“hill-making and lessons for living

Complexity Fatigue and the Third Entity
“participatory sense-making”

How shall we live? Look to the lines.
“life is lived in lines”

Spacetime Folds & Windows of Ritournelle with Bayo Akomolafe
“love is the radial incompleteness of everything”

Project Love
Project Love: What We Make and How it Makes Us with designer Clive Grinyer

Body Knowledge
Body Knowledge and 4E Cognition

Love in Times of Crisis
love in a time of crisis with Wittgenstein and Rupert Read

Empowerment in Robotics with Dari
empowerment in robotics and real life
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The Embrace of Contradiction.
A Light Little Guide for the Times (44 pages)
This is Book One of the Embracing Paradox pamphlet series published by Making Ways. It’s about the ability to hold seemingly contradictory ideas in mind at once, while maintaining motivation and meaning in troubled times.
As F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." This book is a step in that direction.