Category Archives: Graham Harman

Graham Harman on being productive

Posted on September 17, 2010 by stuartelden

You can read his reply to a graduate student question here. It clearly works for him, and there is some smart advice here. I think what is important – and I expect Graham would agree with this – is that … Continue reading →

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Scu on Esposito; Harman on Meillassoux

Posted on September 13, 2010 by stuartelden

Scu at Critical Animal has a discussion of Roberto Esposito, Terza persona. Esposito’s book Bios was translated a few years ago, and his Communitas at the end of last year. Over at Object-Orientated Philosophy, Graham makes a few comments about … Continue reading →

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Roundup – Iraq, Ihde, Meillassoux

Posted on September 4, 2010 by stuartelden

Roy Scranton on Iraq – part one of five – here. Scranton is an ex-soldier who served in Iraq, who wrote a very interesting article for City journal a few years ago – “Walls and Shadows: The Occupation of Baghdad”. … Continue reading →

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Speculations journal

Posted on August 1, 2010 by stuartelden

The first volume of a new online journal, Speculations, is now available. Speculations is a journal dedicated to research into speculative realism and post-continental philosophy. Our aim is to facilitate discussion about ongoing developments within these emerging movements and related … Continue reading →

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Speculative Realism and Object-Orientated Philosophy

Posted on July 23, 2010 by stuartelden

Just in case you’ve ever wondered on the difference and relation between speculative realism and object-orientated philosophy (and object-orientated ontology) – and it can be confusing in a fast-moving field – Graham Harman clears it up here. What I like … Continue reading →

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Graham Harman interview

Posted on July 12, 2010 by stuartelden

A new and detailed Graham Harman interview can be found here. Well worth a read.

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Harman on translation

Posted on July 2, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has an interesting post on translation here. He suggests that English to French has increased the words used, and wonders if this is a standard thing. My sense is that it isn’t necessarily true – when translating Lefebvre … Continue reading →

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Harman on Meillassoux

Posted on June 21, 2010 by stuartelden

Interesting post from Graham Harman on Meillassoux’s After Finitude here. Some small things to note – I hadn’t realised that the English translation of the book was not simply the same text as the French; there is a nice criterion … Continue reading →

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Object Orientated Philosophy and the History of Ideas

Posted on June 12, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham has kindly responded to my previous post on this in some comments here. I should say right up front – and Graham seems to realise this – that I’m trying to understand the positions in relation to own concerns, … Continue reading →

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Harman, Meillassoux and the Spectrum of Realism

Posted on June 11, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has a fascinating post here on what he calls Meillassoux’s spectrum, which runs “from ‘most classically realist’ to ‘least classically realist’”. 1. naive realists/dogmatists: the people Kant destroyed, even in Meillassoux’s view 2. weak correlationists: Kant; “we can’t know … Continue reading →

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