Forms of comprehension

Abstract

<jats:p> This commentary addresses a series of questions that emerge from James Ash’s paper. In doing so it foregrounds issues of temporality, flatness, entities, worlds, and politics. It uses a consideration of these issues to reflect briefly on the relations between ontologies and on the question of comprehension as a particular form of relation. </jats:p>

Form and the politics of world

“…First, Engelmann (2020) and McCormack (2020) are concerned that there is a lack of temporality in my account of form and in the method of dedetermination employed to differentiate between entities. As Engelmann puts it: 'Ash produces an a-temporal, yet spatialised, bullet-time view'.…”