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Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (New Metaphysics)
Realist Magic Objects Ontology Causality - New Metaphysics Author:Timothy Morton Object-oriented ontology offers a startlingly fresh way to think about causality that takes into account developments in physics since 1900. Causality, argues OOO, is aesthetic. In this book, Timothy Morton explores what it means to say that a thing has come into being, that it is persisting, and that it has ended. Drawing from examples in physi... more »cs, biology, ecology, art, literature and music, Morton demonstrates the counterintuitive yet elegant explanatory power of OOO for thinking causality.« less