Hyper-reflection - Explanation from Susan Kozel's Closer (MIT: 2007)

 

 

Hyper-reflection is a process of thought that takes into account its own functioning. Like the recognition in contemporary physics of the impact of the observer on the observed, another operation beyond the "conversion of sense experience into reflection" is necessary; "a sort of hyper-reflection (sur-reflexion) that would also take itself and the changes it introduces into the spectacle into account (Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception).

 

The circle of hyper-reflection can be so finely grained, in such tiny loops that it can be done in the midst of experience.

 

Hyper-reflection is the vehicle by which concepts are drawn out of raw experience.