I found myself forced to re-explore the Object vs. Parts vs. Surface (OPS) issue when looking for appropriate opportunities to apply OOO in practice (previous post). It occurred to me that the OPS distinctions might be the source of the much-maligned (by me) idea that objects don’t directly interact with …
I’ve now spent a couple months reading and thinking about OOO. At this point the question becomes: if object-oriented ontology is interesting and useful, how do you use it (productively) for analysis? The terms used in OOO make me think a lot about surfaces, even though that doesn’t seem to …
I just finished Guerrilla Metaphysics (GM) by Graham Harman. The core of GM interrogates the way in which objects interact — in this, GM complements other OOO ( object-oriented ontology) books such as the the democracy of objects which I feel take the form of interaction as a given. GM isn’t …