Status Updates From The Democracy of Objects

"First, we should not speak of qualities as something an object possesses, has, or is, but rather as acts, verbs, or something the object does. Second, knowing an object does not consist in enumerating a list of essential qualities or properties belonging to about object, but rather consists in knowing the powers or capacities of an object." --- Okay, I'm listening again.

He's decided to rename substances "difference engines" and spent a page telling us about how he is going to replace other commonly accepted terms with his own. Things do not look good here.