“…I usually don’t like correlating ontological positions with political ones. I usually hate it when people do that, when people assume that relationality means progressive left-wing politics and substance means oppressive reactionary politics…. i was a bit careless in the manuscript in equating ontological democracy with political democracy…”

Thinking I was not going to refer to Harman or Latour I hear Douglas Murray describing his conservatism “...British Conservatism is an anti-ideology ideology…”

Of course I am not a democrat, and I certainly do not believe that an argument can be made for a democracy of objects. But it is interesting that supporters of Harman’s area of thought believe that ontology shouldn’t be political, that the social is redefined into something that is not understandable external to the discourse… Perhaps I should dig out the ANT economics texts…