Some interesting articles up at indieoma.com, including an interview from Graham
Harman, in which he talks openly about philosophizing today, and about his object-oriented stance.

There are some great moments, including the following:


Q4: Your philosophy is ‘object-oriented’. That is to say that you consider the object to be as important as the (human) subject. Many people think this is dangerous, as activity in the blogosphere testifies. I think the issue here is that if the subject is considered as a mere object amongst others, people feel that humans might find it easier to justify abuse of other humans. What do you say to that?

GH: Freud always claimed that psychoanalysis was the third affront to human dignity in modern times. Copernicus moved the earth out of the center of the universe. Darwin made us no more special than animals, plants, and fungi. And Freud made conscious thought derivative of less palatable underground currents in the psyche. As a fourth supposed affront to the dignity of humans, let’s add the notion to which you just referred: that the human is not metaphysically special either, so that my perception of fire is no different in kind from the relation of cotton and fire among themselves. Cognitive and causal relations all end up on the same footing. And it does seem to be a bit of a traumatic claim for people, judging by how upset they have become about it (I wasn’t expecting this to happen).


Nick Srnicek introduces Speculative Realism, giving us a clear a indication of what is at stake as debates unfold within the original SR line up of Brassier ,Hamilton-Grant, Harman and Meillassoux.

Paul Sakoilsky writes about three objects randomly chosen from his studio, giving a good indication of where an object based interpretation of the artwork might lead.

See: http://www.indieoma.com/commentaries/mike-watson-open-ideas-project