Treatise on Objects taking shape

Once the Meillassoux book is finished (it’ll be delivered on time in October) I have those two other book contracts to think about:

*Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy (Zero)

*Treatise on Objects (OHP)

The Lovecraft book is already fully shaped in my mind, if not on paper. As for Treatise on Objects, only yesterday did I really figure out the format I want to use: 100 questions about OOO, each with an answer of around 1,000 words.

But that’s just the intellectual structure; one must also consider the literary framing device (because philosophy books are generally a lot more boring than they ought to be).

And in that spirit, I have decided that each of the 100 questions (although some are quite legitimate) will be posed to me by a different sneering troll type, each a rather different and colorful persona. And I the narrator must somehow be held in captivity so as to make it impossible that the questions be avoided (I already know how that will work, but won’t reveal it here).

Some of these trolls will be invented ex nihilo, while others may be so closely modelled on life as to provoke idle threats of lawsuits. In any case, it will be the most colorful gallery of sneer artists ever portrayed in print. And my responses to the trolls will be as lucid and accurate as the most adroit handling of surgical instruments.