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Category Archives: Object Oriented Ontology

A better name for withdrawal.

21-Jan-12

At the Goldsmiths event yesterday Graham mentioned that he wished he could find a better name for the term ‘withdrawal’ in OOO – because it always-already has loaded connotations from Heideggerian human tool-use, despite Harman’s reading. Bizarrely enough Tim Morton wrote a similar passage identifying the precariousness of the term. “I like to think that withdrawal means [...]

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 [...]

Noah Horwitz, Badiou, OOO and Constructive Computation

30-Dec-11

Replying to my last post on Chaitin, Noah Horwitz (who is working very closely with Badiou and Wolfram as am I) comments on the potential similarities and differences of our position. It’s an important conversation, so its worth elevating to its own post as it were. His original comment is here, but I’ve directly copied [...]

DSCOOOO1.jpg Project: a weird rejoinder to Ian Bogost’s Seeing Things

26-Dec-11

HERES  that (late) Christmas present I was talking about. Happy Boxing Day!  

A response to Jussi Parikka: or why materialism ‘encounter’ has lost its efficacy

23-Dec-11

Most of you have probably read Jussi Parikka’s latest piece on some Object Oriented Questions about OOO HERE; the comments are well worth a read if not for the usual can of worms OOO usually opens in the blogosphere. Paul Caplan replied HERE and Levi HERE, Graham’s also just replied with THESE TWO posts. But rather than repeat other responses, I thought [...]

O-Zone

24-Oct-11

HERE. Brand new object oriented journal. Fo’ sho.

And speaking of Speculation Editors…

12-Oct-11

HERE is an interview with Paul Ennis on fractured politics with Kris Coffield. Worth checking out for those intrigued about Speculative Realism from a philosopher who has just received his PhD. My favourite bit; “ I found myself attending conferences that I no longer dreaded sitting through” Amen to that.

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.  

Huge Objects

25-Sep-11

Whilst I’m busy beavering away for Re:Wire next week, I’m drastically post-lite. I thought that those who are interested in such things (most notably the OOO collective) might appreciate Romulo Celdran; an artist who creates exact replicas of small insignificant objects with significant scale. They “exist on a scale that is no longer human”.

A thought on encounter

17-Sep-11

If it is widely asserted that, quoting Bourriaud, art is a state of encounter, what is it that we actually encounter? It’s basically a typical materialist (Bourriaud cites Althusser) method of praxis. An aesthetic method steeped in a paradoxical contingent deliberation. How does one seek creativity in a world of pure relation? If an artist [...]