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Neo-Liberal Normativity11 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 3 weeks ago: Over at Poetix Dominic has an interesting post up responding to Pete’s recent discussion of no … more →

Tags: Critique, Politics, Organization, Deleuze, Ideology, Appearance, Marx, Networks, Hegel

Translation and Information13 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 3 weeks ago: I’m a bit groggy this morning. Last night my three year old daughter smacked her forehead agai … more →

Tags: Assemblages, Channels, Communication, difference, Epistemology, Graham Harman, metaphysics, Networks, Object-Oriented Philosophy

Relations of Translation Between Actants7 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 3 weeks ago: I am still experimenting with the diagram below, but as I was teaching the concept of translation in … more →

Tags: Systems, Signifier, Latour, difference, ontology, relation, individuation, Real, transcendental illusion

Discussion About Knowledge and Causality2 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 4 weeks ago: Mikhail sent me the following post in email, giving me permission to post it if I so desire. I think … more →

Tags: Power, ontology, Epistemology, potential, metaphysics, Speculative Realism, Object-Oriented Philosophy, Anti-realism

A Psychoanalytic Defense of Realism23 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 1 month ago: A central aim of Bhaskar’s A Realist Theory of Science is to diagnose what he refers to as the … more →

Tags: subject, Lacan, desire, Critique, imaginary, Psychoanalysis, Fantasy, Demand, Intersubjectivity

Mereological Considerations in Object-Oriented Ontology27 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 1 month ago: In response to a recent post, Paul Bains raises a number of questions that I believe are worth respo … more →

Tags: Latour, ontology, Epistemology, Real, metaphysics, Speculative Realism, Object-Oriented Philosophy, Anti-realism, Graham Harman

Realism, Epistemology, Science, and Scientism31 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 1 month ago: In a recent remark responding to one of my posts, Dan quotes me and goes on to propose some critical … more →

Tags: ontology, Epistemology, Real, Speculative Realism, Object-Oriented Philosophy, Anti-realism, Graham Harman, Realism

Of Sutures-- Speculative Realism Round-Up39 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 1 month ago: Why is it that all the interesting and fun things happen when I’m drowning in grading? In resp … more →

Tags: Anti-realism, Assemblages, immanence, metaphysics, Object-Oriented Philosophy, ontology, Politics, Realism, Speculative Realism

Transcendental Realism?14 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 1 month ago: Returning to the theme of transcendental arguments once again, why is it that these arguments have t … more →

Tags: Anti-realism, Critique, Epistemology, immanence, kant, metaphysics, Object-Oriented Philosophy, ontology, Realism

Speculative Realism, Armies of Objects, and the Social Sciences12 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 1 month ago: Over at the blog err…whateverz. snugglebus I has posted a couple of nice posts on Speculative … more →

Tags: Luhmann, Blogging, emergence, Latour, Materialism, ontology, immanence, metaphysics, Speculative Realism

Reversing Platonism: Towards a Realist Ontology of Simulacra7 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 2 months ago: Below is the paper I presented at the RMMLA this morning. We had large audiences for the two Deleuze … more →

Tags: Lacan, Deleuze, difference, ontology, Real, metaphysics, Speculative Realism, Object-Oriented Philosophy, Realism

Objectiles, Differencing, and Events14 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 2 months ago: In a lovely passage from Without Criteria, Shaviro writes, Even a seemingly solid and permanent obje … more →

Tags: Events, difference, ontology, individuation, multiplicity, Speculative Realism, Object-Oriented Philosophy

Of Difference24 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 3 months ago: One of the more idiotic charges that sometimes come my way is that if difference is made a criteria … more →

Tags: difference, ontology, immanence, metaphysics, Speculative Realism, Object-Oriented Philosophy

Eliminativism61 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 3 months ago: A few have objected to my generalization as to what constitutes idealism, quoting a passage from my … more →

Tags: Anti-realism, Materialism, metaphysics, Networks, Object-Oriented Philosophy, ontology, Real, Realism, Speculative Realism

Realism, Desire in Philosophy, and Some Questions About Relations25 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 3 months ago: A very interesting discussion is shaping up between Harman and Shaviro concerning the ontological st … more →

Tags: Systems, desire, Materialism, ontology, relation, Real, Whitehead, metaphysics, Object-Oriented Philosophy

Fictional Objects Again and Some Differences Within OOO22 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 3 months ago: Harman has an interesting post up clarifying his views on the difference between real objects and fi … more →

Tags: emergence, difference, ontology, metaphysics, Speculative Realism, Object-Oriented Philosophy, Graham Harman, Realism

When are Objects14 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 3 months ago: In his response to Adrian Ivakhiv’s terrific review of Prince of Networks, Graham Harman write … more →

Tags: Blogging, emergence, ontology, Assemblages, Object-Oriented Philosophy, Graham Harman, morphogenesis

Onticological Aporia of Theory24 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 3 months ago: I’m feeling pretty wretched this evening, whether from a cold or allergies. To amuse myself in … more →

Tags: Foucault, difference, ontology, Epistemology, Theory, Assemblages, metaphysics, Speculative Realism, Object-Oriented Philosophy

Video Games are a Mess12 comments

larvalsubjects wrote 3 months ago: Ian Bogost has posted his keynote address for the 2009 Digital Games Research Association conference … more →

Tags: ontology, multiplicity, metaphysics, Speculative Realism, Object-Oriented Philosophy, technology, Ian Bogost


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