Larval Subjects . faslanyc Object-Oriented Philosophy mammoth // building nothing out of something Things have been terribly quiet here at mammoth this fall. (Assuming that by “here” we mean “here, on the blog”; they’ve been quite busy if by “here” we mean “here in Ohio and Virginia”, which is where I’ve physically been. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to recap those adventures soon — there’s been quite a bit to write about.) DredgeFest Louisiana is a symposium, field expedition, and speculative design workshop about the human manipulation of sediments, from the infrastructural constraint of the Mississippi River at a continental scale to bright orange erosion control fences bulging with wet mud in a spring downpour on a suburban construction site. It will run January 11-17, 2014: a full week, though the individual components are two days (symposium), one day (tour), and four days (workshops). It will move between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Read on for much more detail about the event theme and components. At the same time, south Louisiana is shrinking.
Object-Oriented France: The Philosophy of Tristan Garcia | Harman | continent. continent. 2.1 (2012): 6–21. The French philosopher and novelist Tristan Garcia was born in Toulouse in 1981. This makes him rather young to have written such an imaginative work of systematic philosophy as Forme et objet,1 the latest entry in the MétaphysiqueS series at Presses universitaires de France. The quality and scope of Forme et objet took few observers by surprise, since Garcia has been treated as an emerging philosopher to watch across half a decade of Parisian oral tradition. Given this prolific and versatile track record, an optimistic scenario might envisage the young Garcia as one of those combined literary/philosophical talents who appear intermittently in France across the centuries: Jean-Paul Sartre is merely the most famous recent case. The present article is confined to Forme et objet. Otherwise, the structure of Forme et objet is surprisingly simple. Before doing so, it will be useful to situate Garcia biographically (as much as I am able) and philosophically. 1.
BLDGBLOG Objects as Temporary Autonomous Zones | Morton | continent. continent. 1.3 (2011): 149-155. The world is teeming. Anything can happen. John Cage, “Silence” 1 Autonomy means that although something is part of something else, or related to it in some way, it has its own “law” or “tendency” (Greek, nomos). Life, and in particular human life, and in particular human politics, is well served by the usages of autonomy. Yet Heidegger is unable to draw a meaningful distinction between what happens to a paperweight when it slips from the book I'm copying from and what happens to the paperweight when it presses on the still resilient pages of the thick paperback itself. At a moment when the term ontology was left alone like a piece of well chewed old chewing gum that no one wants to have anything to do with, object-oriented ontology (OOO) has put it back on the table. An object withdraws from access. The preceding facts go under the heading of undermining. In thinking essentialism we may be able to discern another way of avoiding OOO. Objects emit zones.
Manifiesto contra el Paisaje el paisaje mata, por reduccionista, por simplificador, por descontextualizador, por esteticista, por todo ello el paisaje mata la naturaleza, el mundo y con él irremisiblemente nos mata a nosotros. los valores paisajísticos amenazan la vida. entender sólo la dimensión estética de la naturaleza conducirá a su irremisible muerte. cerrar la vida, poner fronteras entre espacios naturales profunda y ecológicamente conectados sólo contribuye a su destrucción el paisaje remite directamente a la cultura del visualismo* puesto que el paisaje nos convierte en meros espectadores -los que sólo miran- eso nos aparta de la acción, de la vida y por todo ello: el paisaje sólo nos deja ver los árboles y nos esconde el bosque el paisaje nos deja fuera, cuando en realidad estamos dentro el paisaje nos expulsa el paisaje nos abandona …por lo tanto debemos abandonar nosotros al paisaje nuestro egosistema nos hace sordos, mudos y ciegos al entorno coda finale y sino, en cualquier caso… Lluís Sabadell Artiga 0meneame
What is Object-Oriented Ontology? Recently I was speaking to a writer about my recent work. She's doing a feature for a local magazine on creativity research and design practice in the region. I've been fortunate to get a lot of press over the years, and it's become increasingly important to me to find ways to make my work comprehensible and applicable to a general audience. We talked about a number of projects, from games at the studio to my recent Atari work to my forthcoming book on newsgames. But this was the first time I'd tried to talk to a journalist about my new work in object-oriented ontology. But wait, you might say, there's a section about OOO in the Wikipedia entry for Speculative Realism. But wait, you might say, why would a discipline of philosophy need or want to explain itself to a general population? So, I thought I'd try to work on a simple, short, comprehensible explanation of object-oriented ontology so I don't find myself in this bind in the future.
Object-Oriented Philosophy Graham Harman As twentieth century philosophy enters its final months, there have been fewer retrospective surveys of its past one hundred years than might have been expected. Whether this is due to widespread disorientation, or simply to the understandable wish to avoid melodrama, is anyone's guess. One of the usual selling-points of this model is that it is equipped to offer praise to both of the rival strands of analytic and Continental philosophy. But this version of twentieth century philosophy contains a notable flaw. Meanwhile, beneath this ceaseless argument, reality is churning. All of these entities roam across the cosmos, inflicting blessings and punishments on everything they touch, perishing without a trace or spreading their powers further--as if a million animals had broken free from a zoo in some Tibetan cosmology. Best of all, there is no need to start from scratch. I will begin with Heidegger, as generally the better known of the two figures mentioned. This is fine.
Onticology– A Manifesto for Object-Oriented Ontology Part I Context We live in a world pervaded by objects of all kinds, yet nowhere do we have a unified theory or ontology of objects. Whether we are speaking of technological objects, natural objects, commodities, events, groups, animals, institutions, gods, or semiotic objects our historical moment, far from reducing the number of existing objects as alleged by reductive materialisms, has actually experienced a promiscuous proliferation and multiplication of objects of all sorts. In light of this situation one is reminded of the epigraph to Heidegger’s Being and Time: ‘For manifestly you have long been aware of what you mean when you use the expression “being”. This epigraph could just as easily be rephrased substituting the word “object” for “being”. 1781: The Failure of Philosophy If 1781 is a fateful watershed year for Western philosophy, then this is because it marks the publication of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and the devastating Copernican Revolution. read on! Avatars of Copernicanism
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