Texturalism: Toward a Philosophy of Multilayered Human Existence in the 21st Century
By Valikhan Tuleshov
November 15, 2025
Valikhan Tuleshov is a political scientist and philosopher whose research focuses on civilizational theory, contemporary global transformations, and the development of new paradigms of human existence. He is the author of the philosophical concept Texturalism, which seeks to explain the multilayered structure of the modern world through the integration of Western rationalism and Eastern universalism. Tuleshov’s work investigates how primordial ethical meanings, civilizational logics, and political structures interweave to form what he terms the ontology of texture in the 21st century.
He is a scholar working at the intersection of political philosophy, civilizational studies, and global systems analysis. His current work centers on the development of Texturalism, a new philosophical model that offers a way to understand the world as a multilayered fabric of interconnected meanings. Through this framework, Tuleshov aims to reinterpret contemporary political, cultural, and ethical processes—arguing that the key to navigating global complexity lies in restoring depth, translatability, and coherence to human existence. As a scientist, he approaches these questions with a commitment to bridging analytical rigor and civilizational insight, seeking to build a conceptual language capable of explaining the world’s emerging structures.
Abstract
The contemporary global condition is marked by an ontological flattening: despite unprecedented access to cultural forms, ideas, and technologies, humanity is experiencing the erosion of depth, meaning, and ethical coherence. This article introduces Texturalism, a philosophical system aimed at reconstructing the deep foundations of human existence through the recovery of primordial ethical meanings and the creation of a multilayered ontology. Texturalism proposes a methodological framework that integrates Western rationalism and Eastern universalism into a space of translatability, offering a basis for renewed ethics, political thought, and civilizational dialogue in the 21st century.
1. Introduction: Ontological Flattening in the Modern Era
The modern era is characterized by a paradoxical condition. While the circulation of ideas and cultural forms accelerates, human experience becomes increasingly homogeneous. Commercialism emerges as the universal equivalent through which meaning is reduced to exchange value, and ethical categories such as justice, fairness, and goodness are transformed into mere functional or legal norms. This process results in what may be described as ontic flattening or one-dimensionality, where the deeper structures of human existence lose their integrity.
Texturalism arises as a philosophical response to this historical challenge. It seeks to restore human sensitivity to meaning and reestablish access to the deep texture of existence. In this sense, Texturalism is not simply a normative theory—it is an ontological project aimed at reconstructing the fabric of humanity itself.
2. The Foundations of Texturalism: Primordial Ethical Meanings
At the core of Texturalism lies the concept of primordial ethical meanings—the deep, pre-reflective foundations of the human capacity to be human. These are not social values in the conventional sense, but ontological structures that constitute the very fabric of existence. They include:
Justice as a fundamental sense of proportion and measure;
Honesty as transparency of the self to itself;
Kindness as the ability to preserve the world in an intact state;
Respect as recognition of the other’s distinctness;
Empathy as inner participation in the fate of another.
In Texturalism, these qualities are not moral prescriptions but structural elements of a stable world. They maintain the integrity of human relationships and prevent civilization from degenerating into a mechanical aggregate of competing interests.
3. Humanity as Texture: A New Ontology of the Human
Texturalism proposes an alternative to atomistic conceptions of the human subject. Human existence is fabric-like, not atomic. A person is a node in a multilayered texture consisting of ethical, cultural, historical, and existential relationships. Humanity, therefore, is not a fixed property but a structure that must be continuously recreated.
This constant recreation—this “maintenance of the fabric”—is what makes the human world sustainable. Without this ongoing work of reconstruction, societies risk dissolution into what Texturalism identifies as the monotony and superficiality of the modern age.
4. Methodological Dimension: Conjugating Western Rationalism and Eastern Universalism
A key methodological principle of Texturalism is the translatability of civilizational logics. Rather than viewing Western rationalism and Eastern universalism as opposites, Texturalism treats them as mutually translatable expressions of the human spirit.
Rationalism supplies form, structure, and analytical clarity.
Universalism provides depth, holism, and semantic integration.
The goal is not synthesis or cultural fusion, but the creation of a space of mutual translatability, where each mode of thinking reveals its depth through engagement with the other. This produces what Texturalism calls a philosophy of textural correlation, capable of preventing the world from disintegrating into isolated conceptual fragments.
5. Epistemology: Knowledge as Texturing
In textural epistemology, the cognizing subject is viewed as a knot of meanings connecting diverse cultural, historical, and rational contexts. Knowledge becomes a process of texturing: weaving disparate elements into a unified semantic fabric.
Truth, therefore, is not a static proposition but a dynamic relational structure emerging within the space of encounters between different modes of meaning. The central method of knowing becomes translatability, understood as the capacity to move between rational and universal paradigms while preserving their internal coherence.
6. Ethics: Maintaining the Integrity of the World
The ethics of Texturalism is grounded in the ontology of the world itself. Ethical action is the practice of maintaining the integrity of the texture of human existence. This involves:
preserving relationships rather than instrumentalizing them;
cultivating transparency with oneself and others;
recognizing and protecting the other’s uniqueness;
participating in the world in a way that preserves its layers of meaning.
In this view, ethics becomes the principal means of safeguarding the world from fragmentation and collapse.
7. Political Philosophy: The State as a Textural Structure
Textural political philosophy conceptualizes the state not as a mechanical apparatus but as a texture of interests, identities, cultural codes, and historical depths. Politics becomes the art of conjugation—the ability to create spaces where diverse civilizational logics can be translated into one another.
In this context, the Middle Turkic civilization serves as an illustrative mediator. Situated between Western rationality and Eastern universalism, it provides a bridge that transforms civilizational tension into dialogic opportunity. International relations, within this framework, become a practice of textural diplomacy—an approach capable of moving beyond bloc-based logic toward mediation and mutual recognition.
8. Civilizational Theory: The Emergence of the Genosphere
Within the civilizational dimension, Texturalism asserts that civilizations are not closed systems or geopolitical blocs but textures of meanings and historical depths. Their task is not to dominate but to contribute to a shared multilayered reality.
This gives rise to the concept of the Genosphere:
a supra-civilizational fabric of meanings that unites diverse cultural textures into a common semantic continuum without erasing their uniqueness. In the Genosphere, diversity becomes a structural condition of global existence, and the rejection of hegemony becomes an ethical imperative.
Human beings themselves appear as microgenospheres—bearers of multiple layers of meaning and carriers of civilizational multiplicity.
9. Methods of Texturalism
Texturalism employs several methodological principles:
The method of conjugation—integrating diverse logics into a coherent framework of understanding.
The method of translatability—enabling communication across cultural, political, and scientific codes.
The method of textualization—assembling disparate elements into a consistent conceptual structure.
The method of in-depth analysis—revealing primordial ethical foundations within any phenomenon.
These methods cultivate a distinctive intellectual style in which multilayeredness is not an obstacle but a source of strength.
10. Practical Implications: Textural Thinking, Leadership, and Diplomacy
Texturalism extends beyond theory into practice:
Textural thinking trains individuals to perceive the world as an interconnected fabric.
Textural leadership involves creating spaces where diverse identities and interests can be woven into coherent structures.
Textural diplomacy transforms contradictions into systems of mutual translatability, enabling non-violent forms of interaction.
This approach has direct implications for global governance, offering a potential philosophical foundation for reforms of international institutions, including the United Nations.
11. Conclusion: Toward a Multilayered Humanity
Texturalism articulates a comprehensive philosophical system grounded in the conviction that humanity is a fabric of interconnected meanings rather than a set of isolated individuals or civilizational blocs. In a period of global turbulence and the exhaustion of previous universalist projects, Texturalism offers a new task for the 21st century:
to restore depth to ethics, coherence to rationality, and translatability to the relations between civilizations.
It does not propose a utopia, but a method—a way of constructing a world where differences texture a shared horizon rather than divide it. Through the paradigm of the Genosphere and the ontology of multilayered existence, Texturalism seeks to reconstitute the conditions under which humanity can once again become a meaningful global project.
