Review—Conceptual System of the Permeability of Being by Andersen Storm,
Markkleeberg, April 13, 2025
by Sanja Liebermann – Dartmoor, October 13, 2025
Andersen Storm’s Conceptual System of the Permeability of Being is less a philosophical treatise than a movement turned into language. The work unfolds no doctrine, no teaching, but opens a field in which being, consciousness, and world interpenetrate. It seeks to hold on to nothing — it wants to make felt that thinking itself is an act of permeability.
The system begins with two fundamental terms: Being and Love. Even their order reveals an inner logic. In Storm’s writing, “Being” is not a static foundation but an open horizon in which everything can occur — the field of possibility for appearance, not a possession, but movement. Love, in turn, is the dynamic of that movement — the force through which being encounters itself.
“What moves through us is neither new nor remembered. Love is the substance in which encounter can take place.”
This sentence could be read as the heart of the entire work. Love is not emotion here, but ontological energy — the principle that enables encounter without enforcing it. As Storm writes, it is “the precondition of all options – the communicative field through which being brings itself into appearance.” A daring inversion: love as a universal source that gives value to all exchange precisely by circulating inexhaustibly.
In this conception, Storm stands in distant kinship with mystical thinkers such as Rumi or Hafiz, whose language celebrates love as divine intoxication, as ecstatic union with the One. Yet where Rumi seeks dissolution in merging, Storm insists on difference. His love is not fusion but permeable tension — it preserves the in-between, the space in which encounter becomes possible.
Where Rumi burns in the fire, Storm remains attentive to the flame.
Here lies a modern, almost phenomenological turn: love is not transcendence but immanence in motion. It does not arise from beyond but from being-with — from mutual openness of consciousness.
It is striking that the work remains without address. It speaks to no one in particular; it seeks no followers, no persuasion. Storm writes from love, not about it. His text is the expression of an inner act, not the communication of a thought. Consequently, the Conceptual System is not a manual or a theory in the conventional sense, but an attempt to make thinking itself a site of permeability.
In this lies its distinctiveness — and perhaps its challenge. For the reader encounters not an argument, but a process. One must surrender to it, as one would to a conversation without agenda.
Storm’s thought thus stands at the border between philosophy, poetry, and mysticism, without belonging entirely to any of them. It carries a quiet radicality: being becomes real only in the act of love, and thinking becomes true only when it makes itself permeable.
In the end, one feels that the Conceptual System of the Permeability of Being is less a doctrine than a condition — a state of opened awareness that no longer sees itself as observer but as participant in the stream of being.
“Thinking that seeks to understand love must itself become loving.”
In this consequence lies the beauty — and the courage — of this work.
A Feminist Reading
Conceptual System of the Permeability of Being
by Sanja Liebermann – October 13, 2025
A feminist reading of Andersen Storm’s Conceptual System of the Permeability of Being can be understood as a quiet yet radical contribution to a feminist ontology — even though the work itself never claims this stance. It rejects the kind of systematics based on separation, hierarchy, and control. Instead, it unfolds a thinking of relation, openness, and mutual permeability.
When Storm writes that “love is the precondition of all options – the communicative field through which being brings itself into appearance,” he reverses the classical logic of possession. Love is not an object or a resource, but the medium of exchange that makes every possibility possible. In this sense, Storm recalls Luce Irigaray’s call for a “thinking of the Two” — a philosophy that understands difference not as lack, but as the very condition of relation.
Storm’s notion of permeability breaks with the patriarchal ideal of self-enclosure. It replaces stability with movement, identity with resonance. The subject is not defined by assertion but by its capacity to be affected — an attitude reminiscent of bell hooks’ idea of love as a political practice.
By writing from love rather than about it, Storm escapes the distanced language of domination. His thinking is embodied without being reduced to the physical; it breathes the same energy as Hélène Cixous’ écriture féminine, in which thought and feeling, body and language, knowledge and relation, flow inseparably into one another.
Seen this way, the Conceptual System of the Permeability of Being sketches a counter-image to dominant philosophy: not a thinking that orders and fixes, but one that makes itself permeable. Storm’s work does not theorize love — it embodies it. A book that shows how thought can sound when it loves — and how love can think without ruling.
Originally written in German. The English translation was created with the help of a translation model, preserving the author’s tone and intention.
