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Comment on The Democracy of Objects: Something New by Blake

Blake — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:56:00 +0000

I’m very excited about this new speculative realism movement in philosophy and it’s possibilities for theological and historical work. I follow Graham Harman’s blog and have many of his books.

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Comment on The Democracy of Objects: Derrida and Dinosaurs by Adam Miller

Adam Miller — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:44:00 +0000

PS, anyone interested can find Open Humanities’ free PDF of the whole book here:

http://openhumanitiespress.org/democracy-of-objects.html

Comment on The Democracy of Objects: Derrida and Dinosaurs by Adam Miller

Adam Miller — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:42:00 +0000

Geoff, good questions. I’ll offer a couple of quick responses that I hope to fill out as we go along.

1. I prefer Bryant’s account of OOO in two respects: (a) I think his (crucial) account of what it means for an object to be “withdrawn” is sharper and more useful than Harman’s, and (b) perhaps mostly as a matter of taste, I prefer to work as Bryant does with the Frenchy Deleuze/Lacan paradigm rather than with Harman’s Heidegger.

2. There is, I think, a very interesting relationship between the two. In EE, Badiou does all that long, complicated work with set theory so that, in the end, he can THEN offer an account of a finally “objectless subject” as a subject coupled with an event rather than an object – but I think all that initial stuff with a set theoretical ontology essentially plays out as a highly formal version of a “subjectless ontology of objects.” That might be place to start. Levi, though, probably also has his own ideas about how this works, especially with Logic of Worlds, which I haven’t spent much time with.

Comment on The Democracy of Objects: Derrida and Dinosaurs by dustin ragland

dustin ragland — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:13:00 +0000

It might be playing to what are here being rendered old questions, but would love to see this in dialogue with Buber’s I and Thou, and perhaps, though I haven’t read it yet (other than the intro), Stanley Grenz’s The Named God and The Question Of Being (which he calls a Theo-Ontology).

Comment on The Democracy of Objects: Derrida and Dinosaurs by Phil Snider

Phil Snider — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:41:00 +0000

Thanks for this post. It reminds me of why Caputo (rightly I think) says that the post in postmodern shouldn’t be understood as being over and done with modernism, but rather conveys a sort of passing through modernism, “so there is no danger of the emergence of an irrational relativistic left, on the one hand, or of lapsing back into a conservative pre-modernism masquerading under the guise of postmodernism, on the other” (On Religion, 60-61).

Comment on The Democracy of Objects: Derrida and Dinosaurs by geoffh

geoffh — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:03:00 +0000

Adam,

Thanks for this post. Looking forward to future engagements with Bryant’s book.
Two questions (as one just beginning to get in on Speculative Realism and OOO):

1) Why do you think Bryant’s work is more successful than Harman’s (esp. since Harman is so prolific recently)? Why is Bryant a better place to start? If you are going to cover this later in your posts then I’ll happily wait for the answers there.

2) How is Bryant’s “subjectless object” related to Badiou’s “objectless subject”? Are they different aspects of a similar project, or opposed projects.

Thanks.

Comment on The Democracy of Objects: Derrida and Dinosaurs by hewhocutsdown

hewhocutsdown — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:51:00 +0000

It’s not perfect, but it is a fantastic introduction to object-oriented materialism/onticology.

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Adam on Object Oriented Philosophy and Religion : Mormon Metaphysics — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:02:06 +0000

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