{"id":5298,"date":"2011-09-13T09:09:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T14:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=5298"},"modified":"2011-09-13T09:09:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T14:09:35","slug":"democracy-of-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/09\/13\/democracy-of-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy of Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Levi Bryant’s The Democracy of Objects<\/em> is finally available and readable on-line<\/a>, courtesy of a wonderfully innovative relationship between Open Humanities Press and the University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The book is part of OHP’s New Metaphysics Series<\/a>, edited by Graham Harman and Bruno Latour.<\/p>\n

As regular readers know, Levi has been a longtime philosophical companion and frequent sparring partner to this blog. On occasion that sparring has gotten enflamed, but the heat has always, in the end, generated much light — which is what philosophical sparring is all about. I’ve read parts of the book in an earlier version and strongly recommend it; it’s an important contribution to contemporary efforts to carve out a post-anthropocentric metaphysics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Levi Bryant’s The Democracy of Objects is finally available and readable on-line, courtesy of a wonderfully innovative relationship between Open Humanities Press and the University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The book is part of OHP’s New Metaphysics Series, edited by Graham Harman and Bruno Latour. As regular readers know, Levi has been a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688977],"tags":[16808,16806,16789],"class_list":["post-5298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geo_philosophy","tag-bryant","tag-object-oriented-philosophy","tag-speculative-realism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-1ns","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1442,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/12\/09\/the-attractions-of-process-metaphysics\/","url_meta":{"origin":5298,"position":0},"title":"the attractions of process (metaphysics)","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"December 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Philosophy"","block_context":{"text":"Philosophy","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/geo_philosophy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1325,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/08\/23\/strange-strangers-or-just-weird-friends\/","url_meta":{"origin":5298,"position":1},"title":"strange strangers, or just weird friends?","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"August 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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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.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Philosophy"","block_context":{"text":"Philosophy","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/geo_philosophy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"LotusSutraPage~R50~SarahFraserCourse.jpg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2010\/09\/LotusSutraPageR50SarahFraserCourse.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2326,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/01\/15\/paradigms-productivity-perspective\/","url_meta":{"origin":5298,"position":4},"title":"Paradigms, productivity, perspective","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"January 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Levi Bryant responds to my last post (and by extension to Chris Vitale's) here. 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