From Morton's Modern Magic, chapter 3:
“A majority of post-postmodern thinking
is a regression, not a progression. It represents a desperate attempt to
construct a 'new and improved' version of the good old Nature that
Derrida and others erased. This time it’s autopoietic, processual,
lava-lampy. I call it lava lamp materialism. […] So if we follow
the attitude this thinking implies, it turns out that there is one
entity in the Universe that isn’t entangled: consciousness. And I, the
lava-lamp materialist, can judge it, from outside of itself … Lava-lamp
materialism keeps returning to the square one of Cartesian dualism. And
in the end, it’s just a form of atomism.”
I'm not sure but I don't think he's directing this at Bryant's kind of autopoiesis. From the surrounding context it appears he directs this more at the process/relational folks but didn't name them. My focus in the quote was to the kennilingus philosophy of consciousness (per se), ironically contained in Integral Spirituality, where with the other side of his mouth he criticizes the philosophy of consciousness.
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