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5012. Badiou’s Relation to Heidegger in Theory of the SubjectIn Sean Bowden & Simon Duffy (eds.), Badiou and Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 225-243. 2012.
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47Propositions, Objects, Questions: Graham Harman in conversation with Jon RoffeParrhesia 21 23-52. 2014.
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46Bells and Whistles: More Speculative RealismZero Books. 2013.More Speculative Realism Graham Harman. GRAHAM HARMAN BELLS AND WHISTLES MURE SPEBLILATIVE REALISM Bell and Whistles More Speculative Realism Graham Harman Winchester, UK. Front Cover.
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41Heidegger, McLuhan and Schumacher on Form and Its AliensTheory, Culture and Society 33 (6): 99-105. 2016.This article uses the ideas of Marshall McLuhan to argue for a non-relational approach to architecture. The word ‘form’ is used throughout the arts and humanities, though in different ways depending on the term to which it is opposed: as in form vs. function, form vs. content, and form vs. matter. In his book The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Patrik Schumacher argues that form/function is the lead-distinction of the architectural profession. I hold that Schumacher cannot be right in this claim, s…Read more
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40On Truth and Lie in the Object-Oriented SenseOpen Philosophy 5 (1): 437-463. 2022.This article begins with a treatment of Friedrich Nietzsche’s early essay “On Truth and Lie in the Extra-Moral Sense.” The essay is often read, in the deconstructive tradition, as a showcase example of the impossibility of making a literal philosophical claim: is Nietzsche’s claim that all truth is merely metaphorical itself a true statement, or merely a metaphorical one? The present article claims that this supposed paradox relies on the groundless assumption that all philosophy must ultimately…Read more
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38Malabou’s Political Critique of Speculative RealismOpen Philosophy 4 (1): 94-105. 2021.A recent political critique of Speculative Realism by Catherine Malabou finds fault with this loosely arranged movement for its focus on reality in its own right, apart from the subject. Malabou responds with a radical ontological claim, holding effectively – if not always explicitly – that subject and object mutually generate one another amidst a primal void. After criticizing this idea, I point to some of the difficult political consequences of such a position, though Malabou defines it positi…Read more
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38Concerning the COVID-19 EventPhilosophy Today 64 (4): 845-849. 2020.This article focuses on Alain Badiou’s surprisingly moderate response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is shown that his dismissal of the virus as a familiar problem best dealt with by bureaucratic managers stems from an overly idealist approach to one of his key philosophical topics: the event.
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37Bruno Latour and the Politics of NatureIn Sonja Servomaa (ed.), Humanity at the Turning Point: Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom, Renvall. 2006.
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35Weird Realism: Lovecraft and PhilosophyZero Books. 2012.As Holderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarme to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror and science fiction magazines, but died in poverty and relative obscurity in the 1930s. In 2005 he was finally elevated from pulp status to the classical literary canon with the release of a Library of America volume dedicated to his work. The impact of Lovecraft on philosophy has been building for more than a d…Read more
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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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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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32The Missing Pieces of Derrida’s Voice and PhenomenonEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 6 (2): 4-25. 2022.Jacques Derrida’s critique of Edmund Husserl in Voice and Phenomenon targets several ways in which Husserl’s theory of signs is said to remain dependent on a model of presence, and therefore to be a form of onto-theology. In a sense this simply extends Martin Heidegger’s own critique of Husserl as failing to account for what remains obscure behind any presentation to the mind. Yet Derrida’s critique is ultimately more radical than Heidegger’s, though the radicality is in this case unjustified. N…Read more
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31Architecture and Object-Oriented Ontology: Simon Weir in Conversation with Graham HarmanArchitecture Philosophy 5 (2). 2022.
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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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29The Beings of Being: On the Failure of Heidegger’s Ontico-Ontological PriorityIn Lee Braver (ed.), Division III of Heidegger’s Being and Time: The Unanswered Question of Being, Mit Press. pp. 117-132. 2015.In order to speculate on what might have appeared in Martin Heidegger’s missing Part One, Division III of Being and Time, I first examine the role of threefold structures in his work more generally. The article claims that Division III would have correlated with the often overlooked “ontico-ontological” priority of the question of being, and some conclusions are drawn from this as to the probable content of the missing Division.
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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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28On the Supposed Societies of Chemicals, Atoms, and Stars in Gabriel TardeIn Godofredo Pereira (ed.), Savage Objects, . 2012.
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26Immaterialism: Objects and Social TheoryPolity. 2016.What objects exist in the social world and how should we understand them? Is a specific Pizza Hut restaurant as real as the employees, tables, napkins and pizzas of which it is composed, and as real as the Pizza Hut corporation with its headquarters in Wichita, the United States, the planet Earth and the social and economic impact of the restaurant on the lives of its employees and customers? In this book the founder of object-oriented philosophy develops his approach in order to shed light on t…Read more
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25The 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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24Speculative realism: an introductionPolity. 2018.Prometheanism -- Brassier at Goldsmiths -- Brassier's nihilism -- The path ahead -- Vitalist idealism -- Grant at Goldsmiths -- Philosophies of nature after Schelling -- A new sense of idealism -- Object-oriented ontology (OOO) -- OOO at Goldsmiths -- The withdrawn -- Objects and their qualities -- Vicarious causation -- The crucial place of aesthetics -- Speculative materialism -- Meillassoux at Goldsmiths -- After finitude -- Glimpses of the divine inexistence -- The two axes of speculative re…Read more
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