Hyperobjects, OOO, and the eruptive classics—field notes of an accidental tourist

2019 ◽  
pp. 189-210
Author(s):  
James I. Porter
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
Speculative Realism ◽  
Marcus Aurelius ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
Field Notes

This chapter considers the relevance of speculative realism and object-oriented ontologies to Greek and Roman thinking, focusing on the phenomena known as hyperobjects. Are these theories of the posthuman entirely postclassical, or do they have ancient counterparts? Porter responds in the affirmative, showing that, beyond the inspirations occasionally cited in support of the new materialisms (most frequently, Aristotle’s theory of substance and ancient atomism), there are solid grounds to support this claim in numerous thinkers, including Empedocles, Lucretius, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. He investigates three trajectories: views of nature in which we encounter some conception of a hyperobject; a collection of materialist and sensualist perspectives on nature in which matter is conceived as operating independently of a human phenomenology; and object-oriented philosophies of nature that treat human phenomena as one object among others.

scholarly journals Speculative Before the Turn: Reintroducing Feminist Materialist Performativity

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Åsberg ◽  
Kathrin Thiele ◽  
Iris Van der Tuin
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
Speculative Realism ◽  
Feminist Scholar ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
Feminist New Materialisms ◽  
Art And Activism ◽  
The Many ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology ◽  
Speculative Thought

This is a moment for new conversations and new synergies. While a wealth of contemporary speculative materialisms is currently circulating in academia, art and activism, in this article we focus upon a few ethico-political stakes in the different, loosely affiliated conceptions of ontologies of immanence. More specifically, we are concerned here with the very meaning of speculation itself after the many new headings of immanent ontologies, such as object-oriented ontology (OOO), speculative realism or the (feminist) new materialisms. Our concern is a feminist concern, as some of the immanent ontologies seem to actively connect with the varied feminist archive of speculative thought while others seem to actively disconnect from the very same archive. What does this imply for the feminist scholar who is in want of tools for navigating the contemporary landscape of ontologies of immanence? Here, we highlight some important overlapping as well as poignant clashes between various feminist materialist genealogies and OOO/speculative realism. In our discussion we underline the importance of situatedness and context, relationality and affinity—and the possibility for rewiring relations—amid a plethora of lively historiographies and emergent post-disciplinary movements and world-makings.

scholarly journals A Questionnaire on Materialisms

October ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 155 ◽  
pp. 3-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Apter ◽  
Ed Atkins ◽  
Armen Avanessian ◽  
Bill Brown ◽  
Giuliana Bruno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
The United States ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Speculative Realism ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology

Recent philosophical tendencies of “Actor-Network Theory,” “Object-Oriented Ontology,” and “Speculative Realism” have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects—from Graham Harman and Alexander R. Galloway to Armen Avanessian and Patricia Falguières to Ed Atkins and Amie Siegel—to explore what the rewards and risks of assigning agency to objects may be, and how, or if, such new materialisms can be productive for making and thinking about art today.

scholarly journals Notes Toward an Extimate Materialism: A Reply to Graham Harman

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-123
Author(s):  
Russell Sbriglia
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Dialectical Materialism ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Speculative Realism ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
The Future ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology

Abstract This article mounts a defense of my and Slavoj Žižek’s co-edited anthology, Subject Lessons: Hegel, Lacan, and the Future of Materialism, against the two main criticisms of it made throughout Graham Harman’s article “The Battle of Objects and Subjects”: (1) that we and our fellow contributors are guilty of gross overgeneralization when we classify thinkers from various schools of thought – among them New Materialism, object-oriented ontology, speculative realism, and actor–network theory – under the broad rubric of the “new materialisms”; and (2) that despite our pretensions to the mantle of materialism, our Lacano-Hegelian position is actually a full-blown idealism. In responding to and attempting to refute these criticisms, I make the case that our Lacano-Hegelian model of dialectical materialism is an “extimate materialism.”

Neither Substance Nor Process I: Anti-Reductionism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Cogburn
Keyword(s):  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Speculative Realism ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology

The first chapter focuses on Garcia’s arguments against reductionism, with (i) an explanation of Garcia’s affirmation of ontological liberality, and (ii) a discussion of Garcia’s important supplementary arguments against the view that some putative entities are not things. The first few sections of the chapter contain an analysis of Garcia’s argument against what Graham Harman calls overmining and undermining. Both philosophers’ efforts are tied to contemporary work concerning reductionism in analytic philosophy. This discussion motivates (i) a brief presentation of Harman’s account of Heidegger’s “readiness-to-hand”, (ii) a discussion of capacity metaphysics, and (iii) Garcia’s differential ontology of objects. In this manner, Garcia’s central motivation and broad picture are situated with respect to recent trends in continental philosophy, particularly speculative realism and object-oriented ontology.

scholarly journals SPECULATIVE REALITY OF POST-ANTHROPOCENE

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Real ◽  
Speculative Realism ◽  
Human Object ◽  
Turn Taking

The article investigates posthumanism in the context of speculative realism and object-oriented philosophy. Posthumanism is been considering as post-anthropocene on the assumption of critics of conventionalism as a correlation between thinking and being. The speculative turn appears as the non-human turn, taking into account the statement of the existing of existence in the absence of a thought. The post-Anthropocene is understood as postpostmodern in connection with the orientation to the objectivity as an aggregate of objects, one of which is a human being. This kind of objectivity takes into account the aleatoricity of reality and in view of this the speculations of the real have a expressed play component, which at the level of matter is manifested in the mutability of the dark ontology of the slimy. In the speculative reality of the post-Anthropocene, the human being itself is objectified, appears as a human object and it is in this state that it discovers the diversity of its qualities and relations. The human object in this case is an aggregate of objects, in turn splitting into a number of objects, which provides a post-Anthropocentric possibility of thought without thinking. Undermining and overmining, i. e. polytical as subversion of a subject in post-postmodern events brings him to the state of a human object. Thus, the principle contingency of the post-anthropocene is proved.

scholarly journals Spekulatywny zwrot czy powrót do źródeł? O „kwartetach” Martina Heideggera i Grahama Harmana

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Żywiołek
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Basic Problem ◽  
Edmund Husserl ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Speculative Realism ◽  
Theory Of Everything ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology

The article contains reflections on the “speculative realism”, a direction in 21st century philosophy initiated by Graham Harman, whose books (The Quadruple Object, Object-Oriented Ontology. A New Theory of Everything) continue and process Martin Heidegger’s concept of “the quadruple” (das Geviert), and they also use the ideas of such thinkers as Edmund Husserl and Bruno Latour. The basic problem formulated in this text arises from the following questions: is speculative realism another turn in scientific research, or rather a return to those sources of thinking that take into account the complexity and the irreducibility of reality to any metaphysical instance? What is the role of the “speculative turn” in cultural studies, in various interpretative practices?

scholarly journals After Possession

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-99
Author(s):  
Iain MacKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
Speculative Realism ◽  
Critical Tradition ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology ◽  
Ontological Position

Tristan Garcia’s Form and Object has been framed primarily as a contribution to object oriented metaphysics. In this article, I shall explicate and defend four claims that bring it closer to the modern critical tradition: 1) that Garcia’s Form and Object can be read, profitably, within the tradition of reflection upon the nature of possessions, self-possession and possessiveness; 2) that to read the book in this way is to see Garcia as the French heir to C. B. McPherson although it will be argued that what this amounts to is that while McPherson was the anti-Locke, so to speak, Garcia is the anti-Rousseau; 3) that this framing has significant consequences for our reception of Form and Object in that it can be understood as a book that not only marks a moment in debates surrounding speculative realism and object oriented ontology but that it also, and primarily, marks an important moment in debates about the encroachment of things and the culture of possession that, in part, defines modernity; 4) that there is a novel ontological position within Form and Object, one that is neither relational nor individualist, that presents a challenging account of ‘the chance and the price’ of living after possession and how to overcome the deleterious effects of contemporary consumer societies.

scholarly journals SPECULATIVE POSTHUMANISM: NATURALIZATION AND VITALIZATION

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Biological Network ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
Philosophical Naturalism ◽  
Speculative Realism ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology ◽  
Digital Or

The article considers speculative posthumanism as an actual approach in researching posthuman being condition. The article examines the influences of critical posthumanism and speculative realism on speculative posthumanism and at the same time, it argues the originality of speculative posthumanism, which consists in becoming divergential life-forms and their events. Trends, which significantly impacted on critical posthumanism and became its component parts of such as deconstruction, deleuzian conception and so on are considered in the article as a background for speculative posthumanism and are naturalizing and vitalizing. For example, rhizome is understood as a biological network of wide human descendants that are appropriate to human and nonhuman traits something like a human centipede. Thus principal excess of living in its immanence is stressed and the living is been considering as a specter or plenum, which resists to any metaphysical bounds. Instead of a metaphysical vitalism is used a strategic vitalism in the context of which multiplicity is been structuring fractally or aleatory, mixing human and non-human, digital or animal and so on, traits. Therefore, the article compares philosophical naturalism and vital realism, which in object-oriented ontology context deals with even non-living entities. Acceleration and singularity in such a case imply the dissipation of intensities in the death drive movement which is understanded as a (w)holeness and plexivity from templexity to teleoplexity. Thus, a living appears as a being-nothing, the form of form, the creation of creation. The article draws a contemporary conception of posthuman in the speculative posthumanism context as an ontogically uncertain one in principal. This article will be useful for developing a theoretical framework the realizing of posthuman being.

Close: Nearing the Future by Means of Symbiogenesis and Hyperobjectivity

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 133-144
Author(s):  
Ioan-Cristian Boboescu
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Fresh Start ◽  
Speculative Realism ◽  
The Future ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology ◽  
Dark Ecology ◽  
Near Future

"Close: Nearing the Future by Means of Symbiogenesis and Hyperobjectivity. At the beginning of the 21st century we find a call for philosophers to join a new alliance: with artists and architects rather than linguists or physicists. In order to see the ecosystem, we need to switch concepts, look away from “nature” and move towards ambiance and hyperobjects. Along with this rehabilitation of Aristotle (by speculative realism and, more specifically, object-oriented ontology) comes a call for a fresh start as post-humanistic symbionts. These are proposals for alternatives to the catastrophic end of the short-lived drama of the Anthropocene. All this aids the here introduction of near-future hyperobjectivity. Keywords: ambiance, Anthropocene, symbiogenesis, OOO / object-oriented ontology / flat ontology, nature, ecosophy, deep ecology, dark ecology, time and near future "

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