The author Fredrik Österblom got in contact and kindly sent me the article in question. It’s in Paletten issue 3: 2012 #289; p.29 (Graham also emailed me about this).
UPDATED: (My translation was awful, so addressing the comments below and from Fredrick’s email, I’ve put their translations in) ;
“In recent years, an object-oriented movement extends far beyond the philosophical discipline. Graham Harman’s philosophy has “gjort sig märklig” (“made itself visible”) in areas such as Art (Robert Jackson), ecology (Timothy Morton), literature (Eileen Joy) and political theory (Levi Bryant). In comparison to the speculative realism “spretighet” (diverseness) the OOO movement uniform is tied around a common issue. Most of the key members are active bloggers and theories have in a significant part emerged and spread online.”
Thats very kind of Fredrik to mention me in the same analogical vein as Tim, Levi and Eileen (Bogost should definitely be added, perhaps under media/videogames) – I don’t, however, consider myself to be anywhere near the prestigious level of anyone else in this OOO crowd; as a PhD student I have not earned my academic chops to get to their level, but maybe some day. That and the fact that all of us have talked about art and OOO in some way or another.
He’s right in one way thought. We all are tied by common issues specific to the challenge that Graham has opened up – issues which last a lifetime to think over.
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rö[r]else should probably be “movement”.
“gjort sig märklig”, I would translate to “Harmans philosophy has made itself remarkable”. I think it was coined by fellow swedish ooo:er marcus (http://dooodles.posterous.com/). Märklig refers both to weird and strange, but at the same time to noticable, “able to leave a mark/trace”. It refers to the indirectness of the contact with real objects.
Spretig litterary would mean sprawling in the sense that it goes of in several different directions and is not really unified. Like a rhizome i guess
Thanks very much Magnus! I got a nice email back from Fredrick on my utterly awful translation
so I’ve amended.
But Robert: I beg to differ; I hold you in the same company, and I do not see nor draw lines between professors and students, or between more and supposedly less “advanced” researchers. I think some of the most important work being done in the academy at present is by the younger scholars who have only recently graduated and/or don’t even have “regular” jobs, including the Speculations and continent. “crews,” most especially.
Thats very kind of you Eileen! I will however, continue to remain humble!
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