Ben Woodard on Process/Object/Ground

Ben Woodard of Naught Thought infamy has commented on the recent developments on the Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) and Whitehead front (which includes the ongoing debate between Ivakhiv and Bryant) here.

I found the following remark very poignant:

Ground is the important term in relating processes and procedures as it is places processes in localities (temporal and spatial) and suggests the importance of stratifications as replacing individuation – with Reza’s twist as a means of bypassing the stupidity of individuation as just a happening from process instead of the failure of multiple processes shifting back and forth between each other. The very interrelation between space and time is becoming-things where derivative forces carve particularities into event-things misdirecting/redirecting other processes.

For me, flowing materialities, colliding events, interlocking processes, gathered contingencies and the particular stratifications (procedural 'machines') these produce stretch the boundaries of schematization in ways that seems to require a ‘going beyond’ any sort of dwelling on “objects”. I believe the world is much weirder and darker than objectological thinking seems to suggest.