Definition of Ontogenesis

What is Ontogenesis?

Ontogenesis is the ongoing creative process by which distinct modes of being arise, stabilize, and transform. Worlds/Ontologies are not fixed in stone — they are the ongoing dynamic creative achievement of assemblages in activity (worlding). 

The ongoing dynamic development of a distinct way of worlding – Ontogenesis is the creativity we live in our daily lives. The dynamic regularities of our mode of living are neither an invisible fixed prison narrowly constructively constricting our experience into one form, nor is experience a free-for-all of radical individualism. The concept of ontogenesis keeps what might feel like a fixed world, that the terms world and ontology can suggest from becoming a new essentialism. The focus becomes on the ongoing creative genesis of an emergent worlding that is always in-the-making, and that can always be otherwise.

See also: Ontological Politics