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Bohm's 'ontological interpretation' was so called because of the bad rap the word 'ontology' has had in our correlationist age. As a bit of a put-down.

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Before there was Bjork, there was Prince. That's a very simple encapsulation of my personal pop life.

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I find it beyond stunning that there is a school of thought or two out there that swears we are into solids and that solids are bad and liquids are good.

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'Do not touch ontologically' doesn't mean 'are separated by empirically measurable hard edges.'

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OOO objects have all the abjection added back in. They don't behave like normalized patriarchal subjects at all.

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In many cases, contemporary materialisms map uncannily well onto Pre-Socratic ideas such that instead of Anaximander, we have the physicist David Bohm and his idea of an underlying 'implicate order' that transcends time and space.

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There is no essence, but there is a flux that is more real than any instance of the flux, such as a milk bottle or a tiger.

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Psychologism holds that logical assertions are percolations of brains. Thus logic is a set of rules for how healthy brains operate. Aside from the infinite regress of a brain determining whether a brain is healthy, we have the infinite regress of the idea 'All concepts are brain percolations' being itself a brain percolation, on its own terms.

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A weird thing is a strange loop, what some of us call 'an object.' Thus it is looked down on by the constructivist spokespeople of anti-art, which is also an anti-products movement - the dominant mode of high art since the inception of the Anthropocene.

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I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 19th, 1968

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