{"id":1488,"date":"2010-12-09T18:05:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T23:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2010-12-09T18:06:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T23:06:51","slug":"and-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/12\/09\/and-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"and anyway…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Process-relational and object-oriented philosophers, as far as I can tell, share the idea that things have an interiority<\/em>, a “one’s own-ness,” that is not accessible to others in the way that it is to oneself. We can argue about where that interiority is located — whether in one’s experience (which is where we access it, for PRists) or somewhere more withdrawn than that, and maybe even inaccessible to one’s own experience; and whether it’s what withdraws <\/em>from relations (as it seems to be for OOOists), or what enacts <\/em>relations (as it is for PRists). And we can argue about what possesses it — whether only active unities (Whiteheadian “actual occasions” and “societies”) or aggregates of all kinds (rocks, discarded snakeskins, toothpicks and shopping carts, etc.). But that’s a significant agreement.<\/p>\n

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For process-relationists, the fact that there is interiority (the subjective prehension of objects) means that there is semiosis <\/em>(the generation of meaning, since those objects take on meanings for subjects), and that, for me, is where things get really interesting. I don’t fully understand how object-oriented philosophy deals with semiosis; I’m sure I haven’t read enough on that yet. But I’m very interested in seeing what kind of object-oriented cultural criticism (which\u00a0 has been mentioned a number of times now on OOO blogs) will emerge and how it will differ from the cultural-studies and production\/consumption\/ecological life-cycle analyses of objects that I’m more familiar with. (I’ve tried to combine those in my own process-relational methodology.) Much to look forward to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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