"Philosophy never reverts to its old position after the shock of a great philosopher."

- Whitehead, Alfred North, Process and Reality


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"What is this clueless anxiety waiting for, if the horrible has already occurred? The horrifying is what transposes all that is out of its previous essence. What is so horrifying? It reveals and conceals itself in the way that everything presences, namely that despite all overcoming of distance, the nearness of that which is remains outstanding."

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Graham Harman in a recent interview reiterates the one central insight from which his object-oriented philosophy has emerged:


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     " To dwell, to be set at peace, means to remain at peace within the free sphere that safeguards each thing in its nature. The fundamental character of dwelling is this sparing and preserving. It pervades dwelling in its whole range."
       - Martin Heidegger, from Poetry, Language, Thought, translated by Albert Hofstadter, Harper Colophon ( Read more... )

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"One of the more interesting things to watch in the debates surrounding OOO in the last couple of years is how strongly people react to the term “object”. "
     - Levi R. Bryant, Don't Just Sit There! Some Remarks on Objects

"I will show that objects themselves, far from the insipid physical bulks that one imagines, are already aflame with ( Read more... )

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