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the politics of objects & relations

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 29, 2010 | 5 Comments »

The objects versus relations debate has revved up again over at Larval Subjects, in the commentary responding to Levi Bryant’s Questions about the possibility of non-correlationist ethics. The debate, as I would describe it, circles around the following question: If we agree that traditional philosophy has been too centrally premised on the relationship between humans […]

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more on Žižek & nature’s discontents

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , on November 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »

It’s interesting to watch a topic spin itself out rhizomically across the blogosphere. Picking up on Žižek’s ecological musings, Levi Bryant seems more or less in agreement with what I had argued here last week, as does Michael Austin, while Ben Woodard criticizes the narrowing of the “ecology of concepts of nature” (a point I […]

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on politics & ontology

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, tagged , , , on November 2, 2009 | 7 Comments »

(For some reason, this didn’t go out over Google Reader, so I’m re-posting it…) The Speculative Realist blogosphere has been abuzz over the relationship between ontology and politics. Nick Srnicek’s post at Speculative Heresy – and the many comments on it – provide a good entry point to this discussion. Nick has wisely redrawn his […]

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still processing

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , on September 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Harman responds to my last post at generous length here. I realize I should have thought this through better before I sent it off, since I don’t really have time to work on a response or an involved dialogue with him at the moment. (And neither does he, as he has said a few times, […]

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still process-relations all the way down

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Keeping up with Graham Harman means continually being tempted to respond to him, and since he doesn’t allow comments on his blog, for reasons I completely understand, I can only hold my tongue or flap it here. (Or I can do the respectful thing and write up a lengthier and more in-depth argument, but that […]

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relations vs. objects, part x

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , on September 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’m glad to see that Steven Shaviro and Levi Bryant have stepped into the fray of the debate over the relative virtues of object-centered versus relation-centered ontologies. (Among others, e.g. kvond, Peter Gratton, Graham Harman of course, and see the commenters to Levi’s posts on Harman and Whitehead). With some of the best blogging philosophers […]

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More on Harman, or what’s outside the system of relations?

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , on September 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The level of discussion following my review/critique of Harman’s Prince of Networks, along with Harman’s brief but welcome response, has encouraged me to post a few more thoughts about this difference between “relationalism” and “objectology” (my term for a central part of his object-oriented philosophy or ontology), that is, between a view that holds that […]

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Things slip away… (on Harman’s Latourian object lessons)

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , on September 9, 2009 | 33 Comments »

Continuing from yesterday’s post on Graham Harman… (Warning: This post is long.) Where Tool-Being presented a Heidegger flushed clean of his anthropocentrism, Prince of Networks takes Bruno Latour for a ride on a philosophical adventure toward a world not of actors and networks but of objects, pure if not so simple. The book’s first half […]

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Harman’s object-oriented philosophizing

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , , on September 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’ve been reading Graham Harman’s Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects and Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics. More accurately, I’ve been dipping into and sipping from the first and systematically digesting the second. Given the amount of blogging that goes on under the rising star(s) of ‘object-oriented philosophy,’ ‘speculative realism,’ and Graham […]

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Speculative Realism & its ecological sympathies

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , , , on July 5, 2009 | 18 Comments »

The philosophical movement increasingly known as Speculative Realism is starting to get attention in these parts of town (the town being Academe, or at least its digital suburbs, and these parts being its ecocritical/biocultural/animaphilic ghettoes). News about the forthcoming re.press anthology, The Speculative Turn: Continental Realism and Materialism, has been circulating for a few days […]

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