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8Aesthetics of the Virtual (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2012._Reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts in relation to the novelty introduced by virtual bodies._
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16Distracted Aesthetics: Towards a Hermeneutics of Engagement with Distractive Works of ArtEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 7 (2): 36-51. 2023.Western aesthetics has privileged contemplation as a necessary condition for authentic aesthetic experience. In contrast, I argue that the adequacy of aesthetic comportment must be measured by the self-presentation of the object in question, shaped by the place from which such presentations issue. Thus, the specific character of many forms of art, particularly in urban contexts, solicits a kind of “distracted” engagement rather than contemplative attention. Distraction is a positive mode of aest…Read more
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22Excessive Materialism and the Metaphysical Basis of an Object-Oriented EthicsPhilosophy Today 63 (1): 101-124. 2019.The aims of this paper are twofold: to critique Graham Harman’s avowedly nonrelational object-oriented ontology from the shared relational vantage of ethics, social philosophy, and feminist new materialism; and to articulate the metaphysical basis for a materialist ontology that serves at once as a posthumanist metaethic, or, as I call it, proto-ethic. The nascent movements of speculative realism and object-oriented ontology suggest some fruitful strategies for challenging the anthropocentrism o…Read more
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25Excessive Materialism and the Metaphysical Basis of an Object-Oriented EthicsPhilosophy Today 63 (1): 101-124. 2019.The aims of this paper are twofold: (1) to critique Graham Harman’s avowedly nonrelational object-oriented ontology from the shared relational vantage of ethics, social philosophy, and feminist new materialism; and (2) to articulate the metaphysical basis for a materialist ontology that serves at once as a posthumanist metaethic, or, as I call it, proto-ethic. The nascent movements of speculative realism and object-oriented ontology suggest some fruitful strategies for challenging the anthropoce…Read more
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242Interpretation from the Ground Up: Luigi Pareyson's Hermeneutics of Inexhaustibility and its Implications for Moral OntologyTrópos: Journal of Hermeneutics and Philosophical Criticism 10 (1): 69-90. 2017.
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1074Dwelling In the House that Porn BuiltSocial Philosophy Today 28 115-130. 2012.This paper is a critique of pornography from within the framework of Heideggerian phenomenology. I contend that pornography is a pernicious form of technological discourse in which women are reduced to spectral and anonymous figures fulfilling a universal role, namely that of sexual subordination. Further, the danger of pornography is covered over in the public sphere as a result of the pervasive appeal to its status as mere fantasy. I argue that relegating the problem to the domain of fantasy i…Read more
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41The Sensuous as Source of DemandEssays in Philosophy 13 (2): 430-435. 2012.In this response paper I defend an alternative position to both Jennifer McMahon’s neo-Kantian view on the aesthetics of perceptual experience, and the sense-data theory that she rightly repudiates. McMahon argues that sense perception is informed by concepts “all the way out,” and that the empiricist notion of unmediated sensuous access to entities in the world is untenable. She further claims that art is demanding inasmuch as it compels one to engage in an open-ended, cognitive interpretive pr…Read more
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3What Is It Like to Be Mysterious, Alienated, and Wildly Rich through Less Than Savory Means? Phenomenal Consciousness and Aesthetic ExperienceConsciousness, Literature, and the Arts 10 (2). 2009.
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197Adventures in Form: Italian Aesthetics from Neo-Idealism to PareysonAnnali d'Italianistica 29 363-380. 2011.
Justin L. Harmon
Southern Oregon University
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Southern Oregon UniversityHumanities and CultureRegular Faculty
Areas of Specialization
Aesthetics |
Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Continental Philosophy |
Object-Oriented Ontology |
Speculative Materialism |