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65On 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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104The 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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1Objets et ArchitectureIn Marie-Ange Brayer & Frédéric Migayrou (eds.), Naturaliser l’Architecture/Naturalizing Architecture, Editions Hyx. pp. 234-243. 2013.
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33Some Preconditions of Universal Philosophical DialogueDialogue and Universalism 15 (1-2): 165-179. 2005.Our own era is widely viewed as a golden age of intellectual tolerance when compared with the persecutions of yesteryear. But in fact, this tolerance serves to mask a fundamental indifference of one perspective to another. Each world view is seen as a personal opinion, walled off from others and immune to challenge or alteration by them. This article blames the current situation in part on the triumph of critical philosophy since Kant. In closing, several concrete and even whimsical proposals ar…Read more
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10Tool-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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12Bruno 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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99Materialism is Not the Solution: On Matter, Form, and MimesisNordic Journal of Aesthetics 24 (47): 94-110. 2015.This article defends a new sense of “formalism” in philosophy and the arts, against recent materialist fashion. Form has three key opposite terms: matter, function, and content. First, I respond to Jane Bennett’s critique of object-oriented philosophy in favor of a unified matter-energy, showing that Bennett cannot reach the balanced standpoint she claims to obtain. Second, I show that the form/function dualism in architecture gives us two purely relational terms and thus cannot do justice to th…Read more
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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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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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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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2Circus 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 Ėduard Vasilʹevich Demenchonok (ed.), Philosophy after Hiroshima, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2010.
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