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Category Archives: Object Oriented Ontology

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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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”.

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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 [...]

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Nice comment from David Reid

16-Sep-11

A lovely comment from Nottingham Trent’s David Reid on Morton’s site. I’m sure I’ll be collaborating more this year. On the flip side to the positivity, I’ve managed to (almost) break my MacBook by spilling coffee on the trackpad. Its in the emergent heater cupboard as we speak, where I’m praying I can dry out [...]

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Release the objects

13-Sep-11

Most of you know the news – but for those unaware, Levi Bryant’s long-awaited book The Democracy of Objects has now been released on the Open Humanites Press website. You can read it directly on the website HTML stylee – or if you’re like me and abhor reading complex texts on a screen, you can [...]

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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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Response to Levi

04-Aug-11

So Levi wrote THIS lengthy but necessary reply to my last post. In summary, Levi noted Ranciere’s equality of human spectator is wholly contingent on human criticism, and acknowledges that Ranciere’s aesthetic leanings could easily apply to non-human actors (which I completely agree with). Here’s Levi, who nails it as articulately as always: “As a [...]

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Therefore OOO and politics

02-Aug-11

There’s been a ‘discussion flurry’ on the topic of OOO and politics. Intra Being has a decent summation on it, riffing on Morton’s posts (HERE) and Levi’s posts (HERE) and (HERE). Can a egalitarian position be articulated in OOO, can a restoration of democratic values be reworked by the plurality of object behaviour? I for [...]

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Initial thoughts on Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making

27-Jul-11

Here’s a few initial thoughts on Graham Harman’s latest; Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making, which I received on Monday. On Tuesday morning I received The Quadruple Object, which delighted and infuriated me at the same; (too many books to read!). I don’t tend to publicly offer my thoughts directly after finishing a book, (unless I’ve [...]

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