{~} /object-oriented ontology
...is a way of thinking about reality and the reality of things.
as its name states clearly, ooo concerns itself with objects: things which exist outside of human perception, have qualities that are not exhausted by interaction with humans or other objects. this comes into conflict with the traditional and pervasive belief, subsumed by
[speculative psychology is occupied with] ferreting out the specific psychic reality of earthworms, dust, armies, chalk, and stone
- Graham Harman, "Prince of Networks", 2009
things can be both individual objects and parts of a larger object. i am not convinced that daoist monism is exhaustible and that the idea of a fundamental unity of flow and being
is erroneous. if everything is an object