ARTFUL OBJECTS

What is an object? This question was addressed by Graham Harman, the originator of object-oriented philosophy and a central figure o f speculative realism, in a lecture at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Providing a thorough exposition of the object from an ontologica l standpoint, and putting forward a concept of the object beyond reductionism, Harman declares an approach that brings together phil osophy and the arts where an object is not reducible to its components or effects and must instead be approached obliquely or indire ctly.The...[Llegir més]