INDEXICALISM AND ITS RISKS: A RESPONSE TO BENSUSAN

This article covers three objections I have to Hilan Bensusan's otherwise interesting book Indexicalism: Realism and the Metaphysics of Paradox. First, I assess Bensusan's fruitful combination of the philosophies of Whitehead and Levinas and point to some small problems with the way this is done. Second, I respond to his critique of my own philosophical position, object-oriented ontology (OOO). Third, I review his allegiance to the "multinaturalist" position of Bruno Latour, Philippe Descola, and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, challenging the idea that specific ontologies can be correlated with particular political results. KEYWORDS: Bensusan; Object-oriented ontology (OOO); Multinaturalism