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  • Badiou's relation to Heidegger in Theory of the Subject 
    Harman, Graham (Edinburgh University Press, 2013-05-12)
    Badiou's references to Heidegger are surprisingly infrequent, given his obvious admiration for the great German think: "Out epoch can be said to have been stamped and signed by the return of the question of being. That is ...
  • Bruno Latour and the politics of nature 
    Harman, Graham (Renvall, 2013-05-12)
    Bruno Latour describes his Politics of Nature as work of political ecology. Its subtitle, "How to Bring the Sciences Into Democracy," suggests a specific and limited topic, albeit an interesting one. Yet what this book ...
  • From (potential) spoilers to guarantors? the role of external powers 
    Aboul Enein, Sameh (RoutledgeLondon and New York, 2012-03-26)
  • 'Le Gallienne’s Paraphrase and the limits of translation' 
    Talib, Adam (Anthem PressLondon, 2012-09-05)
    This essay shows that Richard Le Gallienne’s 1897 edition of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is an original literary text and that it, along with other versions of the Rubáiyát published in the same period, was a response to ...
  • On interface: Nancy's weights and masses 
    Harman, Graham (SUNY Press, 2013-05-12)
    Elsewhere I have called for an object-oriented philosophy, a project inspired by the phenomenological tradition. In Husserl, we have intentional objects: apples or mailboxes that form integral units for perception even ...
  • On the supposed societies of chemicals, atoms and stars in Gabriel Tarde 
    Harman, Graham (INCM, 2012-12-13)
    It is commonly believed that the French sociologist Gabriel Tarde allows even for inanimate objects such as chemicals, atoms, and stars to be topics of sociology. This article claims otherwise. Tarde is an arch-reductionist ...
  • Undermining, overmining, and duomining: a critique 
    Harman, Graham (Aalto University Digital Design Laboratory, 2013-03-28)
    The French philosopher Tristan Garcia holds that objects must be understood in two directions, according to "that which is them" and "that in which they are." We are already familiar with what Garcia is talking about. One ...
  • Zero-person and the psyche 
    Harman, Graham (Benjamins, 2013-02-07)
    This article addresses several closely linked issues: the mind-body problem, the relation between first-person and third-person descriptions, and panpyschism. First, the mind-body problem is one small part of a more basic ...