In medias res: communication, existence, and materiality

Although the questions of materiality and existence are often conceived in absolute terms (something is deemed as either material/existent or immaterial/inexistent), this article defends a relational view according to which materiality and existence should rather be considered matters of degree or gradation. A world where things more or less exist or are more or less material is a world where communication always matters. Communication is indeed the way by which things, animals, and people come to express themselves in a variety of embodiments, materialisations, and incarnations. Communication is therefore constitutive of the way any being happens to exist more or less since it, she, or he always exists through other beings.