[D66] The Quadruple Object

[J.N.]

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor quadruple object

http://www.zero-books.net/books/quadruple-object-the


On 09/20/2016 11:19 AM, J.N. wrote:
> De Object-geörienteerde filosofie van Harman; flux en honden.
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> Undermining and overmining objects
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> 'The same problem arises if objects are rejected as too  static and
> dethroned in favor of some "play of difference" or primordial flux of
> becoming. Tt might be said that reality itself is flux, and  that talk
> of objects merely crystallizes becoming in an abstract state, deprived
> of its vital inner dynamism. But the same problem arises here as
> before. For if we say that any specific dog or moon is merely an
> abstraction from a deeper flux, we still need to ask whether the world
> is one flux or many. If only one, then we are back with monism. But if
> many, then The Quadruple Object each has some sort of specific and
> integral character, and this already makes it an object. The same holds
> true for philosophies of difference, which claim that a thing has no
> identity but instead always differs from itself. For whatever it means
> to say that an object differs from itself, the fact remains that
> airplanes, carrots, electrical pylons, triremes, walls, and men differ
> from themselves in different ways. The philosophy of difference may give
> us blurry entities laced with negation and relationality, but they are
> entities nonetheless.
> 	More could be said about each of these strategics.  But for our
> purposes it  is  enough to call  them  strategies that undermine objects
> as the root of philosophy. All of them claim that objects are too
> specific to  deserve the name of ultimate reality, and dream up some
> deeper indeterminate basis from which specific things arise. They find
> it naive to think of dogs as basic elements of the world, since dogs
> really must be just aggregates of organic chemicals, or fragments of
> apeiron, or an active "dogging" rather than the stasis of a solid
> dog-thing, or the result of a long evolu­tionary struggle with climate
> and predators. All such strategies assume that a dog, candle, or army is
> built of some basic physical or historical element whose permutations
> give rise to these objects as a sort of derivative product. All arc
> versions of reductionism in which objects  only gain their reality from
> elsewhere. All are forms of critique that view individual objects in a
> spirit of nihilism, destroying them with bulldozers to  make way for
> something more fundamental. They view objects as too shallow to be the
> fundamental reality in the universe.'
>
> --p. 9-10 The Quadruple Object, Graham Harman
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