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34GoldIn Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (ed.), Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory Beyond Green, University of Minnesota Press. pp. 106-123. 2014.This chapter follows the fortunes of one specific object that is both widely prized and universally known: gold. It examines the long history of gold from cosmic eons predating humans and considers various structural features of gold that arise from its chemical properties without being reducible to them. After considering examples of the effect of gold on humans, who are dazzled by its splendor, corrupted by its value, and made cruel through their ravenous hunt for the metal, the chapter observ…Read more
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1Objets et ArchitectureIn Marie-Ange Brayer & Frédéric Migayrou (eds.), Naturaliser l’Architecture/Naturalizing Architecture, Editions Hyx. pp. 234-243. 2013.
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265Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of ObjectsOpen Court. 2002.Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) influenced the work of such diverse thinkers as Sartre and Derrida. In Tool-Being, Graham Harman departs from the prevailing linguistic approach to analytic and continental philosophy in favor of Heideggerian object-oriented research into the secret contours of objects. Written in a colorful style, it will be of interest to anyone open to new trends in present-day philosophy.
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29Bruno Latour: Reassembling the PoliticalPluto Press. 2014.Bruno Latour, the French sociologist, anthropologist and long-established superstar in the social sciences is revisited in this pioneering account of his ever-evolving political philosophy. Breaking from the traditional focus on his metaphysics, most recently seen in Harman's book Prince of Networks, the author instead begins with the Hobbesian and even Machiavellian underpinnings of Latour's early period and encountering his shift towards Carl Schmitt and finishing with his final development in…Read more
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1Maximum McLuhanIn Yoni Van Den Eede, Joke Bauwens, Joke Beyl, Marc Van den Bossche & Karl Verstrynge (eds.), McLuhan's Philosophy of Media – Centennial Conference, 26-28 October 2011, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie Van België Voor Wetenschappen En Kunsten. 2012.
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Symbiotic Passion in LingisIn Randolph Wheeler (ed.), Passion in Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Alphonso Lingis, Lexington Books. pp. 27-36. 2016.
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15Return of the Reality PrincipleAl-Ahram Weekly (668). 2003.Graham Harman discusses how French philosopher Bruno Latour, lecturing this week at the American University in Cairo, rejects the Kantian tradition putting the human being at the centre of philosophy and, instead, calls for an absolute democracy of objects
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31Circus PhilosophicusZero Books. 2010.Platonic myth meets American noir in this haunting series of philosophical images, from gigantic ferris wheels to offshore drilling rigs. It has been said that Plato, Nietzsche, and Giordano Bruno gave us the three great mythical presentations of serious philosophy in the West. They have spawned few imitators, as philosophers have generally drifted toward a dry, scholarly tone that has become the yardstick of professional respectability. In this book, Graham Harman tries to restore myth to its c…Read more
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2War, Space, and Reversal: Paul Virilio's ApocalypseIn Edward Demenchonok (ed.), Philosophy After Hiroshima, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2010.
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The McLuhans and metaphysicsIn Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Evan Selinger & Søren Riis (eds.), New Waves in Philosophy of Technology, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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2Aristotle with a TwistIn Eileen A. Joy, Anna Klosowska, Nicola Masciandro & Michael O'Rourke (eds.), Speculative Medievalisms: Discography, Punctum Books. 2013.
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13The Third TableIn Katrin Sauerländer (ed.), Documenta: 100 Notes-100 Thoughts, Documenta. 2012.Against A.S. Eddington's famous concept that there are "two tables" (the everyday and scientific tables), this article defends the notion that neither of these two is real. The real table is a third table not covered by either of Eddington's tables.
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Objects and OrientalismIn Ming Xie (ed.), The Agon of Interpretations: Towards a Critical Intercultural Hermeneutics, University of Toronto Press. pp. 123-139. 2014.
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1Object-Oriented OntologyIn Michael Hauskeller, Thomas Drew Philbeck & Curtis D. Carbonell (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television, Palgrave. pp. 401-409. 2015.
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71Agential and Speculative Realism: Remarks on Barad's OntologyRhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 30. 2016.
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Estettik som kosmologiIn Espen Gangvik (ed.), Meta.morf 2014: Lost in Transition, Teks Publishing. pp. 160-167. 2014.
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1Objects are the Root of All PhilosophyIn Penny Harvey, Eleanor Conlin Castella, Gillian Evans & Hannah Knox (eds.), Objects and Materials: A Routledge Companion, Routledge. 2013.
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