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Category Archives: Graham Harman

Graham’s thoughts on art and SR

03-Mar-13

Graham’s weighed in with a few thoughts on some of the SR/art conferences / speculative themes going on at the moment (of which one, D.U.S.T’s Weaponizing Speculation, is still going as I speak). I think he’s spot on of course, but what some readers may not know is that I have a 10,000 word essay [...]

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Bad at Sports: “What is there”, An Introduction to OOO and art

22-Jan-13

Starting from today, I’ll be writing a regular blogpost/article/piece on OOO for the Chicago-based arts blog ‘Bad at Sports” The first text is already online. It is the first part of an Introduction to OOO and its possible relation to art and aesthetics – called ‘What is there?”

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Nice comment from Paletten

18-Oct-12

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 [...]

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Syntax trumps Semantics. Badiou and recursiveness

15-Feb-12

Here’s a good post from Graham on Badiou. This is the weird thing about Badiou that I can’t get my head around. Knowing what I’m going to say next will probably provoke a ‘misreading’ of some sort. I’ll have to be brief and hence, woefully disingenuous (despite what I say, I have deep respect for [...]

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Transmediale stuff

02-Feb-12

Ok – it’s time that I updated everyone on the last two days. So transmediale is going well. There’s a nice vibe going on, as I expected everyone is in good sprits and enjoying the festival events. There are A LOT of people here, pretty much 1000 maybe even 2000+ are expected over the course [...]

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Busy day

21-Jan-12

So yeah – what a day. Left from Devon at roughly 4.30a.m (yeah I’m a bit tired), and visited Graham Harman’s seminar at Goldsmiths with the Centre for Research Architecture. It was really weird to see Graham cover his metaphysical position in depth at the morning seminar and then for the afternoon session – give [...]

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The Beholding of Objects: The Crisis of the Discrete

29-Sep-11

Presented yesterday at ReWire (28th Sept). The PDF is HERE Video Presentation below – as usual its a manual Quicktime movie – so click the mouse to move forward, or use your arrow keys. There is a video near the end.  

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Paul Caplan on David Berry’s The Philosophy of Software

05-Sep-11

His brief thoughts HERE. Well worth a look. Here are his final thoughts concerning the lack of object oriented-ness in Berry’s new book. “Berry’s philosophy is certainly object-centred but it is not object-oriented in the sense in which I am seeking to use Harman’s quadruple object. For Berry objects do not exceed their relations. They [...]

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Paul Ennis makes my Bank Holiday weekend.

28-Aug-11

Here’s why. At last, a whole three day conference entirely devoted to Speculative Realism and aesthetics. And the proceedings will be published in a special issue of Speculations. Hurrah!   CALL FOR PAPERS Aesthetics in the 21st Century University of Basel September 13-15, 2012   Confirmed Speakers Graham Harman, Iain Hamilton Grant, N. Katherine Hayles [...]

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Two points on Harman’s Review of Laruelle

17-Aug-11

Before we start, lets issue two caveats; I’m not a trained philosopher, yet I do read and comment on a lot of contemporary philosophy (how do I get away with it?) one could say I study a philosophy of art, perhaps technology even, but that’s as far as it goes. Neither have I read Philosophies [...]

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