[FRIAM] Object-Oriented Ontology

[Nick Thompson]

Glen, 

Good luck with this.  I fear I have failed you.  Even though I have bought two copies of the book and read it once, I cannot seem to free up the time (or the priorities) to make it a focus of attention.  I don't sense that the Local Church has much interest in it, although I am not sure why.  It seems like something they "ought" to be interested in.  Note the use of modal language.  I have a manuscript in revision that the editor will take if I can get it to him all nice and pretty by December 1, so I am not good for much right now. 

I have cc'd Dave west to make sure he sees your inquiry.  He is the only member of the group to show much of an interest, if I remember correctly. 

Nick 



Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/


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I'm looking for something a little "harder" to dig into.  Harman, Bryant, Gratton: philosophy.  Morton: English. Bogost: media. Bennett: political theory.  Ennis: business philosophy (?).

Of these, Ennis seems the most likely to have *concrete* ideas of OOO, given his listed research interests (blockchain in particular).  But his work I've found so far is obtuse to me because of I'm philosophically incompetent.

I also found this: 
  Reducers and other Cilk++ hyperobjects
  https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1584017
which triggers my apophenia (not only because of Morton's "hyperobjects", but also our recent discussion of Rosen and the claim that his criticism of formal systems includes "deadlock").  But it seems to boil down to a (however interesting) categorization of ways to handle race conditions.

But I've always read slowly, attempting to fold what I read into my worldview as I read.  And now that I need reading glasses and forget more than I remember, I read even slower.  So, if anyone has any advice on a more targeted approach to concrete OOO, I'd appreciate it.

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