Graham Harman has written a post about me in which he says that I was trying to “refute” OOO in my “2 cheers” post, and that I “claim[ed] quite frankly that OOO is wrong.” I thought it worth pointing out that nowhere in that post did I mention OOO, or Graham’s philosophy under any other name. […]
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Reply to Harman
Posted in Philosophy, tagged Harman on January 14, 2011 | 9 Comments »
2 cheers for lava lamps & Lego blocks
Posted in Music & soundscape, Philosophy, tagged lava lamps, minimalism, music, Ontology, epistemology on January 11, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Tim Morton seems not to have liked my comment suggesting that reality is a mix of stability and instability, and that stability is an achievement rather than a default position. The universe, I would say, is an achievement as well. His much-loved (?) lava lamps are achievements, as are Graham Harman‘s Lego blocks. They don’t […]
Mondrian in Avalon
Posted in Spirit matter on January 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tim Morton has kindly posted about the cover art Indiana University Press gave my nearly decade-old (but none the worse for wear) book, Claiming Sacred Ground, which he likes for its “polyvalent symbolism” incorporated into a Mondrianesque design. The photo in the midst of that design is one I took looking up to the top […]
On anthropomorphism: making humans, pencils, & souls
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged animism, anthropomorphism, Jung, Latour, object-oriented philosophy, Whitehead on December 29, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Tim Morton has recently been suggesting that just as humans anthropomorph (that’s a verb), so pencils pencilmorph. I love this idea, though I’m not sure about its implications, which I want to think through here. Anthropomorphism #1 (traditional, & its extensions) The traditional definition of anthropomorphism is something like “the attribution of human characteristics to […]
repetition with (slight) difference
Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged Bryant, object-oriented philosophy on December 10, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Just a few quick responses to Levi Bryant. Levi writes: 1) entities are nonetheless patterned or structured despite their becoming, 2) they are unities, and 3) they cannot be submerged in or exhausted by their relations. Relations can always be detached. Objects can always enter into new relations. [. . .] if you hold that […]
the attractions of process (metaphysics)
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged object-oriented philosophy, process philosophy, Whitehead on December 9, 2010 | 26 Comments »
With Whiteheadian process philosophers and object-oriented ontologists meeting minds in Claremont, Chris Vitale softening up to OOO, Levi Bryant declaring himself a process philosopher — more precisely, that he’s “always been, [is], and will always be a process philosopher” — and Ian Bogost sharing a very sympathetic attempt to develop commonalities between the two schools […]
conversions & convertibles
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged Harman, object-oriented philosophy, relationalism, speculative realism on December 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
(I try not to edit things once they’re published, but I couldn’t resist adding a Chevy Impala to this blog.) It may not quite be Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus, as Graham Harman’s blog post title suggests, but Chris Vitale has clearly had a change of heart, a dropping of resistance that’s resulted […]
fast thought at Claremont
Posted in Philosophy, tagged Harman, Whitehead on December 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s UCLA summit on speculative realism, which Tim Morton has been podcasting with relentless (and admirable) abandon, Graham Harman is now at Claremont and appears to be live-blogging the Whitehead conference: Stengers keynote in progress Donna Haraway response to Stengers. And follow it live at his blog. From patient and […]
the wheel
Posted in Media ecology on November 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Just as I’m teaching the “biomorphism” section of my film course (where we burrow into the interactive liveliness of moving-image objects), Tim Morton at Ecology without Nature shares this: It all starts from wheeling around. Great stuff.
Buddhist objects & processes
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged Bryant, Buddhism, Hartshorne, object-oriented philosophy, process philosophy, theology, Whitehead on September 29, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Does object-oriented ontology = Buddhism? Tim Morton has been making intriguing sounds to that effect, and Levi Bryant has begun to ask him the hard questions about how and whether that might be possible — of how to “square the circle” of independent substances (OOO) with Buddhism’s conditioned genesis (a.k.a. dependent arising, codependent origination). Tim’s […]
strange strangers, or just weird friends?
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged object-oriented philosophy on August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of the challenges of blogging is that, if one is to do it respectfully and well, one must be prepared to respond to one’s critics, and in such a high-speed medium this can lead to a pace that is unsustainable over time. The coming days won’t allow me much time for such exchanges, but […]
conversions
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged eventology, religion on August 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
What a lovely, touching post Tim Morton has written about his conversion to object-oriented ontology. Since my days of doing religious-studies fieldwork, I’ve always gotten ripples of that nameless mixture of joy, pleasure, and sad melancholy — that feeling of being existentially touched, even pierced — whenever I’ve been around people undergoing conversion experiences (whether […]