Materialism and Objects

As I said one of the things I’m doing is reading through some of my favorite blogs that I’ve not had time to read much the past year. I’ve been doing that with Levi’s posts at Larval Subjects and he’s really had some great posts of late. I’ve noted some of my struggles grappling with [...]

Harman on Derrida’s Realism

Sorry I’ve not posted for so long. I’ve just been too ridiculously busy. I did want to draw your attention to an interesting post of Graham Harman on Derrida’s realism. I wish I had time to comment on it. On the one hand I’m one of those who think Derrida’s a realist but I don’t [...]

Going OOO

So I’ll have a series of OOO posts starting hopefully tonight. My apologies on the delays. We had some big contracts at work I had to deal with and didn’t feel alert enough to dare write on philosophy. I’ve been reading Graham Harman’s Guerrilla Metaphysics. It’s a good book.  I actually like it much better [...]

Derrida and OOO

I’ve not done anything on OOO in over a year.  I’ve just been too ridiculously busy.  I have a bunch of Graham Harman’s books sitting here beside me on my nightstand waiting to be returned to.  I’m hoping I can get back into them next week.  However I was reading something by Levi today which [...]

OOO Differences

There’s a great discussion going on regarding the differences between Graham Harman’s and Levi Bryant’s versions of Object Oriented Ontology. Harman has a post of his view of the differences and Levi has a response. I really want to return to OOO. There’s a lot I really like but there’s some key aspects of Harman’s [...]

Slowly Getting Back to Philosophy

I think it safe to say I’ve not had a lot of time for philosophy the last year. Other than a delving into the OOO fracas this summer (and perhaps a couple of posts where I wished I’d read and studied a bit more before writing) I’ve not really done much profound reading. I have [...]

Truth and OOO

I promise to get back to OOO as I still find it very interesting. However I still don’t have a lot of free time. I was reading an interesting post at Deontologistics that some might find interesting.  

Some Quick Thoughts on Derrida and Plotinus

Sorry. Still behind. But Will had up a great post on Derrida and OOO. It immediately brought to mind some old thoughts of mine on Derrida and Plotinus. Effectively I think OOO is a kind of scholastic realism which acknowledges a kind of Heideggarian “like” withdrawal of the object. That is one considers the object [...]

Derridean OOP

Just a quick set of thoughts. I still am planning on engaging with Harman. I just want to do a rigorous job with it. In the meantime I have been thinking a lot about object – object relations in the kinds of thought I tend to be most sympathetic towards. As I’ve long said I [...]

Peirce and Things

First, I hope to finish that OOP/Peirce post this weekend. Sorry, it’s just been insanely busy for me this last week or two. The kids school started which is quite early leading to early bedtimes for me, more or less killing any evening relaxation of doing philosophy. I’ve been thinking about the subject a lot [...]

Time and Harman

As I mentioned I’ve not had time to respond to Levi’s post on OOP and pragmatism beyond a few brief comments. I hope to finish that up tonight. I’ve just been really busy again. I did want to respond to Graham’s latest post though. He wrote: On the other hand there are people who claim [...]

OOP

So I finished a second read of Graham Harman’s Prince of Networks. It cleared up a few issues in my head. That said I think my initial thoughts and criticisms were dead on. That is I don’t think there is a heavy engagement with the issue of time. It’s just taken as a clear and [...]

Objects as a Point of View

OK, I know I’ve been posting a lot of responses to various of Levi’s posts. However they’ve been quite helpful for drawing out various things I’ve been thinking about the past few years. This will probably be among the last for a little bit as I want to return to a few more religious topics. [...]

Peirce & OOP

OK, last post on OOP. I promise. It’s just not fair to discuss it until I know it better otherwise I’ll just end up critiquing a strawman. That said something obvious struct me while thinking about Peirce (who talks about objects a lot given their place in his semiotics) and OOP. The main focus of [...]

“Substances all the Way Down”

Levi and Graham made some comments about OOP today which were quite helpful for clarifying things. As Michael noted yesterday, Derrida has signs all the way down in terms of a basic ontology. Levi has a nice post related to Aristotle and determinism in this context. In response to one of my questions about tying [...]

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