In Immaterialism, Graham Harman offers a provocative critique of Latour’s social theory, praising Actor-Network Theory as “the most important philosophical method to emerge since phenomenology in 1900” (pg. 1) while also regarding its account of objects as philosophically deficient. While he accepts the… Read More ›
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Dark Ecology, the Higher Misanthropy and Object-Oriented Ontology
For those who don’t already know, actor-network theory isn’t just a useful tool for getting grant money by guilt-tripping funders about all the various things in the social world they’re not attending to. It’s also a platform for philosophical innovation,… Read More ›
Graham Harman on Speculative Realism
Graham Harman, American philosopher, talking about speculative realism, philosophy, natural sciences, fine art, correlational circle, object, plasma. In the lecture Graham Harman discusses the concepts of phenomenology, pre-socratics, quality, in relationship to Bruno Latour, Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Heidegger, Whitehead,… Read More ›