04 Higher Order/Hidden Bearing
Hidden Bearing
Hidden Bearing names carrying that blocks, obscures, or substitutes for retrace.
Hidden Bearing is not the same as Invisible Bearing.
Invisible Bearing carries while leaving retrace available.
Hidden Bearing carries while preventing the participant from recovering the dependency path that is carrying them.
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Hidden Bearing becomes recognisable where participation continues through a carrying structure, but attempts to retrace the path return only to the structure that sustains the carrying.
It is read where the participant can no longer tell whether they are following relation or merely following the system, model, institution, or framework that carries them.