PLURALIST FLEXI-ONTOLOGY (Deleuze, Lyotard, Serres, and

Feyerabend)
By Terence Blake

IN 1980 after spending 6 months in Paris attending Deleuze and Foucault's seminars, and
interviewing Serres and Lyotard, I returned to Sydney and gave a paper synthesising my
impressions. It was published in THE FOREIGN BODIES PAPERS, 1981.

The title of the published version was not mine, but was inserted in place of my original
title, which was PLURALIST FLEXI-ONTOLOGY. This title conveys my impression
that these thinkers were, each in their own way, were working in the domain of ontology
to elaborate not a new ontology, but a pluralist meta-ontology.

There was some discussion after, but it was mostly disappointing. I reproduce here my
appended response, but I have blanked out the names of those I respond to, as they have
no doubt evolved a little since then (as have I).