Object-Oriented Ontology:A New Theory of Everything
by Graham Harman · first published 2018
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We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinforced by modern philosophy, which privileges us as special, radically different in kind from all other objects. But as Graham Harman, one of the theory's leading exponents, shows, Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) rejects the idea of human specialness: the world, he states, is clearly not the world as manifest to humans. "To think a reality beyond our thinking is not nonsense, but obligatory." At OOO's heart is the idea that objects--whether real, fictional, natural, artificial, human, or non-human--a
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You should probably check out the debate between Zizek and Graham Harman (the object oriented ontology guy): https://youtu.be/6GHiV4tuRt8 Although ooo is not directly oo, you can probably pick up on where philosophers are more concerned with the problem of properties ( universals, nominalism, etc) in ontology…
on “The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages (2017) [video]” ↗Neat! I haven't seen this idea out in the world much, but a book called "Object Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything" kinda runs at this from a neat science-rooted philosophy perspective. It basically says that any philosophical framework needs to have just as much to say about fictional beings as it does physical,…
on “What Is Life? (2019)” ↗…my life."[1] I'm also thinking about Copernicus and how people were actually modelling planetary motion in workable ways before him, though perhaps with a few more variables. Lastly, I'm thinking of "Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything", by Graham Harman. I don't subscribe to it fully, but it raises a case for how a truly explanatory theory of our universe MUST encompass fiction and metaphor and language as "real". So if true, then…
on “What is consciousness? Some new perspectives from our physics project” ↗There's also Graham Harman's take on Lovecraft as the patron saint of his object-oriented ontology, in Weird Realism.
on “H.P. Lovecraft – Against the World, Against Life (2004) [pdf]” ↗…clarifications on the Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) article. I skimmed it, but it didn't seem like it ever got to something concrete (I could be wrong); then I looked up his book recommendation on Amazon ("Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything") and read some reviews, but they were also mostly just praise without saying anything very specific about the content.
on “JavaScript January: a curated collection of blogs and tutorials, published daily” ↗I don’t know if this is a new take on phenomenology. Derrida is mentioned, but you might be interested in Heidegger if curious about Object-Oriented Ontology. Heidegger is often avoided for his politics. Morton is trying to make bleak predictions of collapse comprehensible for the next generation of thinkers. You’ll have to read something that mentions hyperobjects…
on “At the End of the World, It’s Hyperobjects All the Way Down” ↗