Zlatic's use of the term relationism here echoes Ong's use of the term relationist in the "Preface" in his 1977 book Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture (Cornell University Press, pp. 9-10) - to characterize what he styles as his relationist thesis. He says, "the thesis is relationist: major developments, and very likely even all major developments, in culture and consciousness are related, often in unexpected intimacy, to the evolution of the word from primary orality to its present state. But the relationships are varied and complex, with cause and effect often difficult to distinguish."
Major developments in Western culture would include modern science, modern capitalism, modern democracy, the Industrial Revolution, and the Romantic Movement in literature, philosophy, and the arts.
For further discussion of Ong's relationist orientation, see my 6,900-word review essay "The Expansive Relationist Orientation of Walter J. Ong's Thought" that is available online through the University of Minnesota's digital conservancy:
https://hdl.handle.net/11299/252672
In a relationist spirit, I have compiled a bibliographic listing of selected works related to certain themes in Ong's work: "A Guide to Five Themes in Walter J. Ong's Thought, and Selected Related Works" is also available online through the University of Minnesota's digital conservancy:
http://hdl.handle.net/11299/189129
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