[D66] The Quadruple Object

[J.N.]

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https://www.urbanomic.com/book/object-oriented-philosophy/


On 09/20/2016 11:20 AM, J.N. wrote:
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> 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.'
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>> --p. 9-10 The Quadruple Object, Graham Harman
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