0015 A “confounding” is a thing where originating matter substantiates a form and the form entangles another matter. Confoundings are inherently unstable. Confoundings often represent opportunity or danger. In the latter case, entanglement can lead to entrapment.
0016 Confoundings tend to resolve in one way or another. This examination will present two resolutions. The confounding pictured above resolves when the entangled matter enters the adjacent-higher categorical level. In this case, the entangled matter on the content level rightfully belongs as matter on the situation level.
In other words, in the above figures, the content-level entangled matter properly belongs to the situation level. Perhaps, that fact explains (or resolves) the entanglement in the first place.
0017 Here is a picture of the resolutions for the prior confoundings.
0018 The above figure needs a few notes.
0019 First, the subscripts indicate that these variations on Aristotle’s hylomorphe are actualities (2) on the content (a) and situation (b) levels.
Second, the entanglement no longer appears. However, it still operates because the situation level virtually emerges from and situates the content level.
Third, another term for the situation-level actuality2bf is “embodiment”. Embodiment2bf may be an activity or a result of an activity.
0020 Fourth, the title of chapter 1 of this book adds another note. What does “thinking about things differently, from things to flows” imply? To me, the title implies that the content-level substance concerns “thingness” and the situation level associates to “flowness”. When these implications are accounted for, here is the resolution, once again.
0021 Hodder wants the inquirer to think about “things” in terms of “flows”. These flows consist of activities that build, maintain, and eventually discard the thing.
Clearly, the “thing” that Hodder discusses is an artifact. Consider the pun, “An artifact is a fact of art.” Thingness is the substance for facts. Flowness is the substance for art.