Must admit that my interest in speculative realism and object-oriented ontology is becoming a bit of an obsession. Thank you, JB-R, for starting me on the road.
Just started dipping into Ian Bogost's Alien Phenomenology or What It's Like to Be a Thing.
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Listening as I type to My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Brian Eno and David Byrne.
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Lots of ideas swirling, but feeling isolated, discouraged, cut off.
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Thanks, Tom. I started Alien Phenomenology two days ago. My only problem with speculative realism is that I think it sees correlationists the way McCarthy saw communists: under every bed. For instance I think they consistently mischaracterize Derrida. In any case, I don't think they have to diss every non OOO philosopher to prove they're interesting. It's unseemly, ... kinda reminds me of Ron S's post-avant vs SoQ thing.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, I am reading a non-OOO book that reminds me very much of you: Blanchot's The Writing of the Disaster. I keep think it's you with all your scruples writing ,,,
Hi John,
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking I should go back and re-read some Derrida--"Signature Event Context" in particular. Cary Wolfe (in WHAT IS POSTHUMANISM?) has some interesting things to say about Derrida in reference to Systems theory.
Blanchot? Interesting.