Phenomenological Drift: The Structural Logic of Appearance in Marc Richir

Marc Richir reconceives phenomenality as a field of instability rather than a system of appearances. This paper interprets his concept of phenomenological genesis as a proto-recursive ontology in which phenomena endure only by re-entering their own processes of formation. Against the reflective closure of transcendental phenomenology, Richir advances a logic of drift—an instability that sustains meaning through continual deformation. Read through the lens of structural and systems theory, his work anticipates a general ontology of recursive appearance: reality as self-renewing modulation without ground.