Graham Harman - Realism in contemporary continental philosophy: towards an OOO

Graham Harman (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Southern California Institute of Architecture) during his keynote talk in Athens School of Fine Arts under the title «Realism in contemporary continental philosophy: towards an object-oriented ontology»

The talk took place during the 2nd Greek Undergraduate Philosophy Conference on December 17th, 2017.

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[projectmalus]

A good talk, I think I'm actually starting to understand OOO.

[stephenhogg]

I do not follow Harman's argument against 'perspectivism' - the 'thing' is the sum of it's effects, or the totality of the perspectives taken upon it. He argues that if this were the case then we could not account for how the thing changes. But surely it changes by making new relationships, when new perspectives are taken on it. I wonder if he sees perpectivism as a kind of static totality? Surely not, because it's implicit in the idea of perspectivism that there is no static identity. He must be getting at something else but I don't understand what. Anyone like to clarify?

[stephenhogg]

He never, ever, mentions 'philosophical hermeneutics', but the fact is that almost all the points he makes here are made by Gadamer. So, one must ask, 'what are the similarities and differences between OOO and philosophical hermeneutics?

[fuadarif]

One problem with Harman is that he talks about the same stuff n examples in almost of his talks.. it is like a ‘comedian touring’ with the same script