Review of OOO as a movement by Nathan Brown, from Tool-Being to Realist Magic: In order to stake its claim to originality and supremacy, “OOO” has to fulminate against what it sees as a threatening field materialists, purveyors of “scientism,” process philosophers, Deleuzians, and systems theorists. […] Yet many readers, perhaps trying to find an […]
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Back online
I have resurrected my blog. It had been infected with spam and an injection style attack. To fix it I logged into my hosting service’s control panel and reinstalled/updated WordPress. It worked and now I am back. I’m aiming to do a little bit of writing everyday and combined with my daily exercise regime I […]
Ontology of events and politics
After reading this on Levi’s blog and this on Ian Bogost’s blog I left the below comment on Bogost’s blog: I’m glad the focus has finally shifted more to the ontology of events, rather than objects. I find ‘events’ far more interesting on a number of levels. Ontology of events requires a different metaphysics, what […]
What is useful in After Finitude?
Levi has a new post up about temporality and objects. He writes this: However, while I am deeply sympathetic to the processualists and consider myself a process ontologist– which I don’t take as being synonymous with being a Whiteheadian –this argument only follows if substances are three-dimensional as articulated above. If, in addition to spatial […]
On being a fugitive from love
Ressentiment is a reassignment of the pain that accompanies a sense of one’s own inferiority/failure onto an external scapegoat. The ego creates the illusion of an enemy, a cause that can be “blamed” for one’s own inferiority/failure. Thus, one was thwarted not by a failure in oneself, but rather by an external “evil.” There are […]