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17 Nov 2009

Ontological, But Not Realist

Levi has recently posted an argument on psychoanalysis and ontological realism, which I felt was worth responding to, if only because he tries to annex psychoanalysis towards object-oriented ontology, a view that I am obviously opposed to.

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13 Nov 2009

Object-Oriented Philosophy as Ponzi Scheme: On Financial and Metaphysical Bubbles

I was inspired by Kvond’s excellent post at his blog Frames /sing—please do read it—responding to my informal comments over at this Perverse Egalitarianism thread, where I wrote a brief critique of the work of Graham Harman and the object-oriented philosophy (henceforth, OOP) movement that has recently coalesced around him, to formalize them a little bit into a post here at the Howler.

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