Rein Raud is a research professor at the School of Humanities, Tallinn University, and a Visiting Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin.

“In this remarkable in-depth discussion of social process ontologies, Rein Raud enlists the resources, methods and intuitions of different philosophical traditions to present an original perspective. Adopting a cross-disciplinary approach, he defends a post-anthropocentric vision that honours the specificity of being human, but also decentres arrogant human exceptionalism. This brilliant and erudite book emphasizes the continuity between humans and nonhumans as the necessary premise to explain our ability to make sense of the world.”Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University“Rein Raud’s position in this book is almost the polar opposite of my own. Nonetheless, he brings fresh insights and arguments to the process materialism camp, and his lasting contributions to the debate make this an important work. Both process- and object-oriented thinkers should read it immediately.”Graham Harman, Southern California Institute of Architecture

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 Ontology: some of the story so farChapter 2 An ontology of processes and fields    Chapter 3 Me, myself and my brainChapter 4 The self as an extended decision-making network    Concluding remarksNotesReferences

Rein Raud is a research professor at the School of Humanities, Tallinn University, and a Visiting Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin.

“In this remarkable in-depth discussion of social process ontologies, Rein Raud enlists the resources, methods and intuitions of different philosophical traditions to present an original perspective. Adopting a cross-disciplinary approach, he defends a post-anthropocentric vision that honours the specificity of being human, but also decentres arrogant human exceptionalism. This brilliant and erudite book emphasizes the continuity between humans and nonhumans as the necessary premise to explain our ability to make sense of the world.”Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University“Rein Raud’s position in this book is almost the polar opposite of my own. Nonetheless, he brings fresh insights and arguments to the process materialism camp, and his lasting contributions to the debate make this an important work. Both process- and object-oriented thinkers should read it immediately.”Graham Harman, Southern California Institute of Architecture

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 Ontology: some of the story so farChapter 2 An ontology of processes and fields    Chapter 3 Me, myself and my brainChapter 4 The self as an extended decision-making network    Concluding remarksNotesReferences

Rein Raud is a research professor at the School of Humanities, Tallinn University, and a Visiting Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin.

“In this remarkable in-depth discussion of social process ontologies, Rein Raud enlists the resources, methods and intuitions of different philosophical traditions to present an original perspective. Adopting a cross-disciplinary approach, he defends a post-anthropocentric vision that honours the specificity of being human, but also decentres arrogant human exceptionalism. This brilliant and erudite book emphasizes the continuity between humans and nonhumans as the necessary premise to explain our ability to make sense of the world.”Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University“Rein Raud’s position in this book is almost the polar opposite of my own. Nonetheless, he brings fresh insights and arguments to the process materialism camp, and his lasting contributions to the debate make this an important work. Both process- and object-oriented thinkers should read it immediately.”Graham Harman, Southern California Institute of Architecture

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 Ontology: some of the story so farChapter 2 An ontology of processes and fields    Chapter 3 Me, myself and my brainChapter 4 The self as an extended decision-making network    Concluding remarksNotesReferences