Morton in fine form

By the way, I’m surprised in this case that both Ivakhiv and Vitale responded to the “lavalampy” remarks. The post wasn’t about that, but about Metzinger’s wish to have it both ways, dissolving objects downward while also dissolving them upward.

In any case, Morton’s post made me laugh, especially this part:

“Do Lego bricks (to name the objects Metzinger mentions) require some kind of Stalinist show trial in which they admit their denial of their inherent meltiness? And beg to be melted down in the name of lava progress? ‘Some things are more processual than others.’ This is onto-theology, folks. Things are withdrawn objects. OOO is proclaiming this, NOT that we should favor solids over liquids. To accede to some nice compromise (‘Things are kind of melty but also kind of solid’) is still to believe in reductionism, eliminationism and so on. Lava lamps are precisely somewhere ‘between’ melty and solid.”

How did Tim put it one time? “Dude, from this angle that part of the lava looks like a frog.”