Dialogues and Criticism
1. Criticism of Deleuze and Guattari
Deleuze celebrated the "rhizome" and "becoming" against the "tree" and "being." OCE argues that the pure rhizome is impossible: without stability nodes, the network falls apart. Life needs structure as much as it needs freedom.
"Flow without form is as illusory as form without flow."
Pontos Robustos
- It offers a realistic correction to the excessive "fluidity" of postmodern philosophy.
- It rehabilitates the concept of "form" and "structure" without falling into old essentialism.
- Compatible with biology (which studies stable structures, such as cells and organs).
Reception Weaknesses
It can be seen as "conservative" by those who see the destruction of form as the only way to liberation political or aesthetic.
2. Dialogue with the Chaos Theory
Chaos Theory shows that order emerges from chaos. OCE agrees, but emphasizes that this order is not eternal: it is a temporary "island". The origin is the process of formation of this island.
Implications
- Cosmologia: The universe is not a clock or a gas cloud; is a process of self-organisation.
- Ethics: We must value the structures that sustain life, knowing that they are fragile and temporary.