If
we think of nouns or objects as process, as simultaneously being open
and closed, ever changing yet in some sense ever remaining the same, as
never fully manifesting in the actual, and with no overriding assholon
unity subsuming them: This for me reduces
the the likelihood of falling into a metaphysics of presence.
Especially given the correlational aspect with respect to linguistic
prepositions, which orient what I've come to call suobjects to each
other in space/time.
I especially like Bryant's
notion that each suobject has its own space/time, but yet when engaged
with hyberobjects (like capitalism) can also be strongly influenced by
their stronger gravity wells. Still, there is that withdrawn reserve
that can and indeed must not only resist but change said hyperobjects
like capitalism when enough suobjects coordinate their collective
gravitas, for even hyperobjects are subject and open to external forces.
No easy task, to be sure, but it must be done.
Byrant shifted from objects to the metaphor of the machine in a machine oriented ontology (MOO). He now sees the relationship of bodies in terms
of the fold (here and here), where he further diverges from OOO. E.g.:
"Everything transpires as if the being of beings were a sort of origami.
There are only folds: plaits, pleats, creases, waves, crevices, knots,
and caves. And within each of those folds? Other fold! There are only
folds coiled within folds radiating to infinity in both time and space.
And if this is not enough, these folds are not fixed-crease folds, but
rather are mobile folds. The wave is a better image of the fold than the
envelope. A wave is a fold that perpetually folds itself, that
traverses a field and that maintains its identity through the repetition
of a process that is the unity of both difference and sameness. The
folds of being are not fixed creases, but rather being never ceases to
everywhere fold and unfold itself. Being is everywhere an undulation of
folds and of undulating folds. Folds envelop one another, enfolding
other folds within them. On other occasions and in other places, planes
or fields undergo processes of invagination through which the surface
becomes textured and riddled with crevices forming something akin to
caves. On yet other occasions, that which is folded unfolds. In
unfolding, that which is folded does not become a smooth or flat
surface. This, of course, sometimes happens as well, though perhaps the
flat surface or plane is the most folded being of all. More often,
however, that which unfolds configures itself as a new formation of
folds like a blooming flower."
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