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Ontoepistemology
Problems of Internally Consistent Systems
The Map Is Indestructible examines how humans navigate the world through “maps”—internally consistent systems like ideologies, theories, conspiracies, and religions—while risking entrapment within them. The book argues that although these frameworks are essential and inescapable, they can also distort reality, but that “error” can help shield us from the overwhelming force of Lacan’s “The Real.” The act of thinking itself requires us to question the very schemas that make thinking possible, and yet that act could destroy us.
Structured as a decentralized series of essays united by reflective codas, the second volume of The True Isn’t the Rational trilogy invites readers to engage their maps and adopt a dialectical openness to surprise, encounter, and “becoming” in an age of global pluralism fragmented by struggles for meaning and belonging. Is there life after maps? Perhaps not—but as James Hunter suggests, a “faithful presence” within them, poised at the Gödel Point, might still matter.
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O.G. Rose is a pen name consisting of Michelle’s maiden, middle, and their shared last name. While at the University of Virginia, Rose spent several years working collaboratively with other artists at Eunoia, a creative community Rose helped develop in Charlottesville, Virginia. Rose now lives on a farm, manages a wedding venue named Mead Lake, operates Frozen Glory Photography, and teaches piano using visuals from Rose's Pattern Method.
A finalist for the 2020 UNO Press Lab Prize and 46th Pushcart Nominee, Rose’s creative works appear at The Write Launch, Allegory Ridge, Streetlight Magazine, Ponder Review, Iowa Review online, The William and Mary Review, Assure Press, Toho Journal online, West Trade Review, ellipsis, Poydras Review, O:JA&L, Burningword, and Broken Pencil. Their published books include The Conflict of Mind (2021), A Philosophy of Glimpses (2022), Thoughts (2022), Belonging Again: Part I (2023), Second Thoughts (2023), Belonging Again: Part II.1 (2024), Under the Wing (2024), and The Map Is Indestructible (2025).
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