Ontological Methadone: A Review of Peter Wolfendale’s Object-Oriented Philosophy

13Jan15

The initial chatter around Pete Wolfendale’s book generally seemed to fall into two camps. The first being that the text was merely a massive pile of vitriol directed towards OOOers with the second being the question ‘Why would Pete devote so much of his time to a provocation that may well go unanswered?’ Wolfendale addresses […]

Filed under: Badiou, Brassier, Deleuze, Harman, Hegel, Heidegger, history, Iain Hamilton Grant, Kant, Meillassoux, ontology, Speculative Realism   |  8 Comments
Tags: Iain Grant, Markus Gabriel, ooo, oop, pete wolfendale, ray brassier

Points and Objects

18Nov09

Levi has an interesting post about quantum mechanics and Speculative Realism. A whole slew of issues arises surrounding epistemological versus ontological realism particularly in regards to the issue of observation and the uncertainty principle. As the Dailykos post he references makes clear, decoherence does not assert that everything depends on observation, but that at some […]

Filed under: Brassier, Deleuze, Harman, Meillassoux, nature, ontology, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism   |  2 Comments
Tags: gabriel catren, levi bryant, ooo, oop, quantum mechanics, vitalism