Textures of ecology: A flat ontology of things in Zachary Epcar’s Return to Forms

This article analyses Return to Forms with regard to Levi R. Bryant’s flat ontology, which eliminates any degree of hierarchy between things. Foregrounding the entanglements of different textures, Zachary Epcar’s haptic and sonic experiment echoes Bryant’s object-oriented philosophy and calls for a radical ecological sensibility through assembling the manifold fabrics of everyday life with an unusual tone. In this new materialist outlook, human and non-human, actual and virtual, body and matter coincide.