What does that mean? What is “a relation”? Is there a generic, abstract relation? I think relations are particular and I think establishing some particular is the objective, even if that particular isn’t obvious to outsiders.

“there is nothing object-oriented in swearing”

Bullshit.

“It also raises the question of why people often form attachments such as friendships, family relationships and other types of intense affinity, which seem to outlast and exceed their instrumental context. ”

Who says what the instrumental context is? It probably changes.

It seems that again and again Robinson’s implied definitions of object-oriented arbitrarily exclude obvious alternative possibilities.

This doesn’t seem like a serious analysis.