Archives mensuelles : novembre 2013

Harman’s “master argument” against relational ontologies is that they cannot explain change, that if everything were related nothing would change. This is patently false, as relations include temporal relations. Deleuze for example talks about both kinetic (relative speeds and accelerations) … Lire la suite →

Today, OOO is at a loss. Its hackneyed set of critical terms (philosophy of access, shams and simulacra, lavalampy overmining, atomistic undermining) clearly have no point of application at all to the new lines of research opened up by Bruno … Lire la suite →

In the introduction to  AN INQUIRY INTO MODES OF EXISTENCE Latour recounts being shocked by the sceptical question of an industrialist to a climate scientist, and being surprised at the lack of appeal to the certainty of expert knowledge in … Lire la suite →

Latour attempts to give us a phenomenology of the original experience of emotion that underlies the mode of existence of invisible psychogenic beings, or « divinities ». He declares that with the emotion and the impression that it comes from outside there … Lire la suite →

Dans »Dracula et l’ontologie » Randolph Carter pose la question du mode d’être en apparence paradoxal des êtres fantastiques tels que Dracula. Il part d’une formule proposée par Denis Mellier pour caractériser la fiction fantastique: « le fantastique ne peut jamais être ce … Lire la suite →

Some people have had problems accessing this post by Randolph Carter on his interesting blog Ligne de fuite. So I have decided to reblog it here: « Denis  Mellier, spécialiste de la littérature fantastique, énonce dans sa thèse L’écriture de l’excès, … Lire la suite →

Latour’s movement is initially phenomenological. He attempts to get away from the abstraction of the subject-object division and to come back to both historical and individual experience. Only then can he rise to more “cosmological” concerns. In the case of … Lire la suite →

Initialement publié sur AIME Research Group :
Author: Terence Blake The movement of deconstruction of the split between subject and object allied to the pluralisation of ontologies continues. We must now apply this ontological pluralism to the irrational superstitions that are…

Two years ago Adam S.Miller, the author of SPECULATIVE GRACE: Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology, published a text criticising Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Kelly’s ALL THINGS SHINING for its misunderstanding of David Foster Wallace, whom they accuse of nihilism. Miller … Lire la suite →