“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Thursday, December 13, 2018

Graham Harman on Hyperobjects

Graham has always always been about thirty seconds way by text for clarification and explanation of many a Deep Thing in the eight years we've been pals. It's just a happy coincidence that "strange stranger" in The Ecological Thought corresponds exactly to an OOO object, and that I started thinking about hyperobjects two years before I read Tool-Being. I had a cholesterol problem at the time and was going to the gym a lot, where I read it. Philosophy, gymnasium.

Here's this great essay he's just published on the hyperbjects idea.

1 comment:

elliott said...

Can you please comment on what Bruno Latour means when he says,

"The globe is not actually something which has any existence."
(at 46:59) https://t.co/CVgYmUHxsi

"the destruction of the image of the globe"
https://youtu.be/4-l6FQN4P1c

"the Earth itself might not be a globe after all"
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/node/700

Do you think Latour's thought fits with the thought of Earth as a level motionless plane?