Object-Oriented Buddhism 17--Zubiri to the recuse

He's talking about chairs, which are only one syllable away from chariots. What he says is strongly in line with Gautama Bryant:

the chair ... qua chair, is not real, because "chair" is not a character which belongs to it "of itself"

This is from Of Essence, which arrived a few weeks ago. Graham Harman talks about this in Tool-Being, page 248.

Buddhists are likewise not nominalists: a chariot isn't a chariot because you call it one. Furthermore--there it is!

Thus OOO comes closest to profound theories of emptiness. The superficial understanding is that "form is emptiness"--modernity, from capitalism to scientism to process philosophy, kind of has that bit down.

What OOO grasps better than anything I've yet seen, the next proposition, which nicely reverses the polarities, like Graham's reading of Levinas and Zubiri:

Emptiness also is form

This is the future folks!