I think there is an implicit ontology baked into capitalist social relations, and it's a contradictory "practical ontology" that simultaneously upholds a dualism between subject and object, self and other, the intensive and the extensive, mind and matter, etc. while unfolding through time as a tendency towards a monist subsumption of the former (subject, etc.) …
The Material and the Ideal are Mutually Implicated
Critical materialism seems to have an ideal: the real apprehension of existence in terms of causes and conditions, rather than in terms of concepts and ideas. But there's an extent to which some self-professed "materialists" only proceed with their investigations of reality through a kind of fetish for materialism, which makes them ignorant as to …
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reflections on the notion of Self (Identity)
The sense of Self seems to arise out of the assumption that the chain of reference produced by our inquiry into this notion (the chain that results from reflecting upon the contents of this notion of self, in which the contents themselves are found to be only composed of a series of reflections …
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Holopoiesis 