Democracy of Objects

Can I claim authorship of the book that follows?In the typical and frustrating manner of a philosopher-if such I am-I can only answer that this depends on what authorship is.Certainly, I spent months typing words and editing various drafts of The Democracy of Objects.Yet if there is some truth to the ontology that I here develop, then every object is also a crowd of objects.Moreover, the circumstances under which this book came to be written, coupled with the way in which this book was written, render this point especially true.This book was already on its way to coming into being before I even conceived of it as a result of my encounter with the literary and media theorist Melanie Doherty.I met Doherty around…