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Category Archives: Object Oriented Ontology

Thinking the Absolute: The Ambiguities of Emergence, Novelty and Life in Formal Systems.

23-Mar-12

Some good news to report; our panel “The Ambiguities of Emergence, Novelty and Life in Formal Systems“, has been accepted at the “Thinking the Absolute Conference at Liverpool Hope University, June 29th – July 1st. The panel will involve myself, Charlie Gere and Francis Halsall – our abstracts are below. Looks like it will be [...]

An anti-Kantian moment from Turing

18-Mar-12

Yeah, I know I’ve been rubbish at posting. Well I’m just going through a massive thesis writing week – I’ve somehow managed to write about 13,000 words in 4 days. Part of this is down to a new regime of writing location, I’ve moved from my desktop computer to… a laptop at the top of [...]

Everything is the Centre of the Universe

08-Mar-12

Here’s a weird fact that may aid/contradict OOO. The cosmological principle. Every thing, person, plant, animal, atom, planet, galaxy and cupcake is, strictly speaking (hold onto your hats) the centre of the universe. We’re all aware of the scientific cosmological principle and the rapid expansion of the universe: briefly put, the idea that the universe [...]

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.