Abstract
AbstractAn important question in Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) and its associated literature is how OOO relates to its competitor theories. This article is a meta-philosophical investigation into OOO and its grounding, which hopes to fully theorise this relation, deriving ultimately a “negative dialectic” that emphasises the irreducible differences between OOO and non-OOO. Beginning by analysing the use of OOO as a “starting point”, I consider Althusser’s various contributions to meta-philosophical debates. This leads me to focus on Harman’s notion of “hyperbolic reading”, and on how attempts to hyperbolically ground OOO force it to immanently include its competitors. Finally, I apply these insights to systematise both the negative dialectical relation between OOO and non-OOO and the becoming-OOO of thinking, by applying Laruelle’s Non-Philosophy.
Highlights
Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) begins with an impressive and promising postulation: there are only objects
An important question in Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) and its associated literature is how OOO relates to its competitor theories
This article is a meta-philosophical investigation into OOO and its grounding, which hopes to fully theorise this relation, deriving a “negative dialectic” that emphasises the irreducible differences between OOO and non-OOO
Summary
Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) begins with an impressive and promising postulation: there are only objects. I will offer an appraisal of this event to theorise more adequately the relation of OOO to its philosophical exterior as well as what movements thinking performs in the gesture of selecting either OOO or more standard metaphysics In mediating this ultimate reconciliation, I will consider the project of Althusser to indicate where in a rigorous affirmation of ontological flatness entities with “height” may still arise. Recognising this ultimate result, I turn towards Laruelle’s proposal of a Non-Philosophy which will in this case overcome the “dyadic” opposition of OOO and its competitors by rendering thinkings as objects to thought “in-One”
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