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13Realism without Hobbes and Schmitt: Assessing the Latourian OptionIn Dominik Finkelde & Paul M. Livingston (eds.), Idealism, Relativism, and Realism: New Essays on Objectivity Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide, De Gruyter. pp. 257-274. 2020.
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126The Only Exit From Modern PhilosophyOpen Philosophy 3 (1): 132-146. 2020.This article contends that the central principle of modern philosophy is obscured by a side-debate between two opposed camps that are united in accepting a deeper flawed premise. Consider the powerful critiques of Kantian philosophy offered by Quentin Meillassoux and Bruno Latour, respectively. These two thinkers criticize Kant for opposite reasons: Meillassoux because Kant collapses thought and world into a permanent “correlate” without isolated terms, and Latour because Kant tries to purify th…Read more
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66On Progressive and Degenerating Research Programs With Respect to PhilosophyRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 75 (4): 2067-2102. 2019.The Hungarian-born philosopher of science Imre Lakatos introduces the methodology of scientific research programs, and also makes a famous distinction between “progressive” and “degenerating” programs. Although Lakatos does not give extensive guidance as to whether philosophical rather than scientific theories could also be judged in this way, he does give some intriguing hints in his discussion of a debate on induction between Rudolf Carnap and Karl Popper. After considering two extant but misg…Read more
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99Object-Oriented Ontology and Commodity Fetishism: Kant, Marx, Heidegger, and ThingsEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 1 (2): 28-36. 2017.There have been several criticisms of Object-Oriented Ontology from the political Left. Perhaps the most frequent one has been that OOO’s aspiration to speak of objects apart from all their relations runs afoul of Marx’s critique of “commodity fetishism.” The main purpose of this article is to show that even a cursory reading of the sections on commodity in Marx’s Capital does not support such an accusation. For Marx, the sphere of entities that are not commodities is actually quite wide, includ…Read more
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15Editorial Introduction for the Topical Issue “Object-Oriented Ontology and Its Critics”Open Philosophy 2 (1): 592-598. 2019.
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27The Coldness of Forgetting: OOO in Philosophy, Archaeology, and HistoryOpen Philosophy 2 (1): 270-279. 2019.This article begins by addressing a critique of my book Immaterialism by the archaeologists Þóra Pétursdóttirr and Bjørnar Olsen in their 2018 article “Theory Adrift.” As they see it, I restrict myself in Immaterialism to available historical documentation on the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and they wonder how my account might have changed if I had discussed more typical archaeological examples instead: wrecked and sunken ships, released ballast, deserted harbors, distributed goods, and dere…Read more
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15Chapter Six. 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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62The Problem with MetzingerCosmos and History : The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 7 (1): 7-36. 2011.This article provides a critical treatment of the ontology underlying Thomas Metzinger’s Being No One. Metzinger asserts that interdisciplinary empirical work must replace ‘armchair’ a priori intuitions into the nature of reality; nonetheless, his own position is riddled with unquestioned a priori assumptions. His central claim that ‘no one has or has ever had a self’ is meant to have an ominous and futuristic ring, but merely repeats a familiar philosophical approach to individuals, which are u…Read more
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6Heidegger, Language, and World-Disclosure (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2000.This book is a major contribution to the understanding of Heidegger and a rare attempt to bridge the schism between traditions of analytic and Continental philosophy. Cristina Lafont applies the core methodology of analytic philosophy, language analysis, to Heidegger's work providing both a clearer exegesis and a powerful critique of his approach to the subject of language. In Part One, she explores the Heideggerean conception of language in depth. In Part Two, she draws on recent work from theo…Read more
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La Tercera MesaDevenires 18 (July-December): 263-271. 2017.This is a Spanish translation of Harman's 2012 article "The Third Table."
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79The Future of Continental Realism: Heidegger’s FourfoldChiasma: A Site for Thought 3 81-98. 2016.
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68Whitehead and Schools X, Y, and ZIn Nicholas Gaskill & A. J. Nocek (eds.), The Lure of Whitehead, Univ of Minnesota Press. pp. 231-248. 2014.Graham Harman’s “Whitehead and Schools X, Y, and Z,” distinguishes among three schools of contemporary philosophy according to their respective positions on process, becoming, and relations: the schools of Whitehead and Latour, of Deleuze, Bergson, Simondon, and other philosophers of becoming, and of object-oriented philosophy. One of the goals of the essay is to challenge those who would too quickly align Whitehead with Deleuze.
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1Another Response to ShaviroIn Roland Faber & Andrew Goffey (eds.), The Allure of Things: Process and Object in Contemporary Philosophy, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 36-46. 2014.
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On Behalf of Form: The View from Archaeology and ArchitectureIn Mikel Bille & Tim Flohr Sørensen (eds.), Elements of Architecture: Archaeology, Atmosphere and the Performance of Building Space, Routledge. pp. 30-46. 2016.
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Subspatial and SubtemporalIn Ruti Sela & Maayan Amir (eds.), Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds, Punctum Books. pp. 465-479. 2016.
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Der dritte TischIn Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (ed.), Das Buch der Bücher, Hatje Cantz Verlag. pp. 540-542. 2012.
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77The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE (edited book)Zero Books. 2011.The Prince and the Wolf contains the transcript of a debate which took place on February 5, 2008 at the London School of Economics (LSE) between the prominent French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher Bruno Latour and the Cairo-based American philosopher Graham Harman.
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4"Qu'est-ce qu'une chose? " Question déjà ancienne. Elle n'est toujours neuve que parce qu'il faut sans cesse la poser à nouveau ", observait Heidegger. C'est le traitement de cette question fondamentale de la métaphysique qu'entreprend, à nouveaux frais, Graham Harman en proposant une théorie originale de l'objet compris comme une unité autonome et concrète. Un objet, en effet, n'est jamais épuisé par l'usage ou la connaissance que j'en prends. Sa réalité ne se réduit pas non plus aux interactio…Read more
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The Object Takes on a Life of its Own: A Conversation Between Thomas Feuerstein and Graham HarmanIn Beate Ermacora, Franziska Nori & Matthia Löbke (eds.), Psychoprosa: Thomas Feuerstein, Snoeck. pp. 222-230. 2015.
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70Plastic Surgery for the Monadology: Leibniz via HeideggerCultural Studies Review 17 (1): 211-229. 2011.The article discusses fascinating points of similarity and difference between Leibniz's Monadology and Heidegger's 'The Thing', two of the greatest short works in the history of philosophy. But the key point of intersection between them is not widely recognised: indirect causation.
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