Bacchanalia: Another OOO enthusiast on LJ
Over at Bacchanalia I've discovered recently another OOO enthusiast. This time a literary creature who is pursuing some interesting tie-ins between literature, objects, and scholarship. As he says, "I’ve been considering for awhile now crafting a new writing sample to use for my graduate school applications, one that better reflects my present interests in the field. I’ve had a life-long infatuation with stone, with rocks and pebbles, gemstones and crystals, and with my growing passion for OOO, I realized I could fuse those interests together and search for the agency of stones in medieval literature (which lends itself nicely to the sort of post-humanism of OOO and the dark ecology of Timothy Morton, considering the middle ages existed before Kant)." In his current essay Some Notes on Object Horror and Vibrant Matter in "The Franklin’s Tale" and Historia Regum Brittanniae he explores an intermixture of ideas ranging from post-human(ist) to OOO to Jane Bennett's Vibrant Matter.
Check it out:
http://thebacchanal.livejournal.com/76105.html?view=111945#t111945