What is Logontology?
The video I probably should have made first
I’ve been writing about Logontology for years — in notebooks, in essays, in my book In the Becoming, in conversations... But there’s something about sitting to make a video that says: this is what I actually think, and why.
The video is called What is Logontology? It runs to about ten minutes and covers the ground I find myself returning to again and again: why reality is better understood as process than as furniture; what it means to say that consciousness is a place rather than a thing; why meaning lives between people rather than inside them; and why I think our limitedness – the fact that we are mortal, particular, and running out of time – is not the tragedy but the whole point.
It also begins, as most things I write begin, with a question I couldn’t put down when I was young and haven’t managed to put down since.
I’d be glad to know what you think – either here or over on the channel. And if Logontology is new to you, this is probably the right place to start.