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Object-oriented ontology

In metaphysics, object-oriented ontology (OOO) is a 21st-century Heidegger-influenced school of thought that rejects the privileging of human existence over the existence of nonhuman objects. This is in contrast to post-Kantian philosophy's tendency to refuse "speak of the world without humans or humans without the world". Object-oriented ontology…

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Metaphysics of Graham Harman

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Object-oriented ontology

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Object-oriented ontology

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related to Hyperobjects (Morton) · 21
Object-oriented ontology → According, Consequently, Ecology, End, For, Hyperobjects, In, In The Ecological Thought, Interobjective, Molten, Morton, Nonlocal, Phased, Philosophy, Sun, This, Thus, Timothy Morton, Viscous, World
related to Founding of the movement · 20
Object-oriented ontology → Bryant, Elements, Following, For Harman, Furthering, Graham Harman, Harman, Harman's, Heidegger, Heidegger's, Heideggerian Zuhandenheit, Levi Bryant, Metaphysics, Objects, OOO, OOP, Resisting, The, Theory, Tool-Being
related to Alien phenomenology (Bogost) · 11
Object-oriented ontology → Alien, Bogost, Bogost's, First, From, Georgia Institute, Ian Bogost, Persuasive Games, Second, Technology, Third
related to Criticism · 6
Object-oriented ontology → Alexander Galloway, David Berry, Matthew David Segall, Other, Pancomputationalism, Some
related to Critique of correlationism · 6
Object-oriented ontology → Because, French, Many, Object-oriented, Quentin Meillassoux, Related
related to Withdrawal · 5
Object-oriented ontology → Accordingly, And, Harman, Object-oriented, The
is a · 1
Object-oriented ontology → realist philosophy

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objects object-oriented harman object ontology human one real another relations sensual humans philosophy thought hyperobjects ontological reality bryant anthropocentrism philosophical

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Object-oriented ontologyis arealist philosophy0.90text
David Berryinstance ofOther critical commentators0.80text
Alexander Galloway have commented on the historical situatedness of an ontology that mirrors computational processesinstance ofOther critical commentators0.80text
even the metaphorsinstance ofOther critical commentators0.80text
language of computationinstance ofOther critical commentators0.80text
Object-oriented ontologyrelated to Alien phenomenology (Bogost)Ian Bogost0.60section
Object-oriented ontologyrelated to Alien phenomenology (Bogost)Georgia Institute0.60section
Object-oriented ontologyrelated to Alien phenomenology (Bogost)Technology0.60section
Object-oriented ontologyrelated to Alien phenomenology (Bogost)Persuasive Games0.60section
Object-oriented ontologyrelated to Alien phenomenology (Bogost)Bogost0.60section
Object-oriented ontologyrelated to Alien phenomenology (Bogost)From0.60section
Object-oriented ontologyrelated to Alien phenomenology (Bogost)Alien0.60section

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