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Everything I Learned

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Everything I Learned at Graduate School
(or Toward an Object-Oriented Ontology)

Screw this shit.

Stick insects are the center of the centerless universe.
There is a universe at the center of the centerless stick insect
which is also a ● (which is also a universe).

Circles exist, but nothing travels in them.

I am not posthuman enough. I am too much.

That's all right. The unicorn is also
and the riding boot and the riding. Somewhere
your childhood is being beaten by a brave little toaster:
the always already deposed new monarch of being.

If you count all the permutations of infinity,
you will have an infinity larger than infinity.
This is related to finding the nearest 7-11.
Probably the milk was rotten from the start,
but it doesn't enjoy thinking negatively.

The trucker hat you are wearing
is composed of ten thousand individual units
of is and polyvinyl and Red Lake 40,
none of which like you. Or would like you
if what we were talking about here was social relativism
(but she's a bitch and we don't hang out anymore).

Things do indeed do things. Did you know

because everything being is present, this: ●?
Because of ●: all units infinitely withdrawing
toward some other present thing: the ice.
The sea monster. The volcano's daily venting.

None of this has everything to do with you.
"Only some portion of the domain of being is obvious to any given object at a particular time. For the udon noodle, the being of the soup bowl does not intersect with the commercial transaction by which the noodle house sells it, nor the social conventions to which the eater slurps it. But yet, there is no reason to believe that the entanglement in which the noodle finds itself is any less complex than the human who shapes, boils, vends, consumes, and digests it." - Ian Bogost

Tell me that is not the funniest thing you've read in a long, long time.

This is what happens after I'm subjected to some 200 pages of the most ridiculous and banal philosophical theory the human mind can possibly dredge up.

By which I mean, yes, I just wrote a poem mocking Object-Oriented Ontology. (Although maybe there's a little grudging respect here too.)

I'm aware this doesn't make sense. Trust me, neither does the original theory.
© 2011 - 2024 sarehptar
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cat-with-a-pencil's avatar
"Probably the milk was rotten from the start, but it doesn't enjoy thinking negatively." Lol XD

This made me happy...