Expressionist Realism
October 27, 2011
I think I’m going to propose to Tim Morton that he and I start an SR splinter group called Expressionist Realism. I’d like to write an entire treatise of object-oriented philosophy using examples like these:
“…such as in cases where mimes are beheaded by polished scimitars.”
or
“If, for example, one clown drills a hole in the head of another and puffs rare Turkish tobacco from the hole…”
or
“Laundry maids, for instance, belong to two categories: those who are dying of tuberculosis and those who are not. Yet this difference may be called accidental, since the presence of tuberculosis is irrelevant to laundry maids qua individual substances.”
or
“While normally it is said to be black moths that cover the sun, this is a mere clichĂ©, since even rainbow-colored moths would have the same capacity for obstructing and absorbing solar rays.”