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Object-Oriented Ontology Symposium

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The Universe of Things

2010-04-23 , Shaviro, Steven , Crawford, Hugh , DiSalvo, Carl , Johnston, John , Stafford, Barbara , Thacker, Eugene

I would like to suggest that taking objects seriously, affirming their independent existence, recognizing that every object or entity has its own "perspective" without reductionism and without correlationism entails some variety of vitalism or panpsychism.

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Cakes, Chips, and Calculus

2010-04-23 , Bogost, Ian , Crawford, Hugh , DiSalvo, Carl , Johnston, John , Stafford, Barbara , Thacker, Eugene

For decades, scholars in the liberal arts have relinquished wonder to the natural sciences, and then swooped in ostentatiously to blame their awe on false consciousness. Science and engineering gets things wrong too, assuming that the world can only be understood by breaking it down into components. In this talk, I argue that the return to realism in metaphysics is also a return to wonder, a wonder that appreciates objects at different scales. Topics covered include cake baking, microprocessors, and STEM education, among others.

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American Objects vs. Austrian Objects

2010-04-23 , Harman, Graham , Crawford, Hugh , DiSalvo, Carl , Johnston, John , Stafford, Barbara , Thacker, Eugene

This lecture aims to place present-day object-oriented ontology (OOO) in historical context. The recent appearance of this movement in continental philosophy has led some to ask how it differs from the theories of objects found in Husserl and his fellow Austro-Hungarian thinkers, such as Twardowski and Meinong. OOO is contrasted with the work of these thinkers, as well as with later authors such as Heidegger, Whitehead, McLuhan, and Latour. Most philosophical theories of objects tell us nothing about the interaction between two inanimate objects with no human witness. And those that do (Whitehead and Latour come to mind) remain too loyal to the British Empiricist theory of bundles of qualities, leaving no room for objects over and above such qualities. By contrast, the fourfold model of OOO allows an object to exist not only apart from us, but apart from its own features as well. Turning from history of philosophy to systematic metaphysics, the lecture ends with a survey of some familiar problems that look fresh when viewed from an object-oriented stance.

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Welcome

2010-04-23 , Telotte, Jay P. , Bogost, Ian

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Being is Flat: The Strange Mereology of Object-Oriented Ontology

2010-04-23 , Bryan, Levi , Crawford, Hugh , DiSalvo, Carl , Johnston, John , Stafford, Barbara , Thacker, Eugene

Levi Bryant is a Professor of Philosophy at Collin College. In addition to his book on Deleuze's Philosophy, Difference and Givenness: Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence, Bryant is co-editor of The Speculative Turn, a forthcoming collection on speculative realism. Bryant is currently completing a book on object-oriented ontology titled The Democracy of Objects.

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Concluding Remarks

2010-04-23 , Stafford, Barbara

Barbara Maria Stafford is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, Emerita, at the University of Chicago. Her work explors the intersections between the visual arts and the physical and biological sciences from the early modern to the contemporary era. Her current research charts the revolutionary ways the neurosciences are changing our views of the human and animal sensorium, shaping our fundamental assumptions about perception, sensation, emotion, mental imagery, and subjectivity. Her most recent book is Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images.

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