Low and High Divisions within both the Phenomenal and the Noumenal. In distinguishing between
the noumenal and the phenomenal, the ethereal and the
corporeal, I have tended, in comparative terms, to regard the one as high and the
other as low, if only because space and time prevail over volume and mass, as
fire and air over water and earth. But in relation to either the noumenal or the phenomenal itself, we can distinguish
between the low and the high, not to mention, where the subservient gender is
concerned, between what could be called the antihigh
and the antilow, thereby bringing each point on the intercardinal axial compass into line with the overall
dichotomy between the hegemonic gender and its upended counterpart, whether in
terms of low and antihigh or, across the axial
divide, of high and antilow.