Morton on withdrawal
 

Morton describes the OOO concept of "withdrawal" as "the fact that no access mode can exhaust a thing"
 
"Capitalism tries to eliminate withdrawal, as if it could be wiped away; the fact that nothing can eliminate this ontological feature is why capitalism is violent."
> from Timothy Morton's Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (2017)

> tagged with #philosophy, #objects, #violence, #capitalism

> created February 8, 2024 at 11:27:23 AM


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