On 12/02/13 15:27, Simon Biggs wrote:
> Had an interesting conversation with Talan Memmott in Amsterdam this
> weekend about OOO and agreed that the focus on things overlooks the
> importance of process and the consequent mutability of things. This is
> where OOO's reductivist nature and flaws become most apparent.

I quite like the idea of flat ontology, it makes sense under 
materialism. But  neither sneering nor screaming at Alex Galloway's 
critique really answers it.

> So, you are neither a thing nor an object but a process within
> immanence (that's a word will drive OOO people mad).

The last chapter of:

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/philosophy-software

has some nice meditations on *streams*, and mentions Husserl's "comets".

And yes I've seen the immanence hate in OOO. Surely immanence is just 
another object in Meinong's Jungle? ;-)

- Rob.
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