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7764811 No.7764811 [Reply] [Original]

Is there a bigger hack in the business at the moment than this guy and his cheesy little pop-philosophy 'movement' : "Speculative Realism" and "OOO", --- is there anything more bereft of actual coherent conceptual thought than this? His entire books are cheesy little anthropomorphisms made to convince gullible undergrads that they're in on some New Speculative Metaphysics, I can't believe this guy and his cronies managed to play this philosophical trick on philosophy departments --- the goofball should just go back to sports writing.

>> No.7764832

>>7764811
Nice dubs.

My, sorta qt but no really, gf was really into this guy so I dumped her because I didn't want to be seen dating a pleb. Did I fuck up?

>> No.7764849

>>7764832
No, not at all.

>> No.7764860

>>7764811
who is this spooge scrooge?

>> No.7764866

>>7764811
Do you understand Heidegger and Levinas?

Otherwise, shut the fuck up.

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>>7764866
We got a live one.

>> No.7764874

What's your critique of him other than him being a hack, OP?

I think the quadruple object is a very coherent little book, that really destinguishes itself from the tendencies towards clusterfuckism that is the rest of speculative realism/OOO.

If you could point to some problems with his thinking, it would be easier to find out if I agree or not with your claim that he's a hack.

And I'm not a robot.

>> No.7764887

>>7764869
back to /mu/

Sage!

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>>7764874
He never gives any good demonstration of what constitutes an 'object', resulting in an idiotic infinite regress of playful little anecdotes about "A rock bumping into a volcano ... an ice cube melting on the head of my dick..." etc. The little conceptual strength you find in OOO is compensated for by these pathetic little anecdotes, frequent misunderstandings of other --- especially scientific --- literature (e.g. quantum mechanics, russell's paradox), the entirety of which is based on some superiority complex over 'scientism', Graham Harman is nothing other than a flavor-of-the-month blogger who seems to have played an elaborate trick on continental academia --- simply by appropriating one little section of Heidegger, using it as an axiom of an entire ontology which hasn't been developed at all since, yet keeps making all these absurd promises about being the only philosophical alternative to scientism etc, --- OOO (fitting name for a pop-philosophy for undergrads to 'Oooo' at) is basically the snake oil salesman's 'philosophy'.

Even look at the cheeky bastard, with his cute little descriptions and his dumb smile, with his nice little descriptions of natural phenomena ("dude... somewhere, ... someplace, there is a meteor smacking into another meteor...., don't focus on the subject man!!! correlationism!!! bawww... I cant believe critique keeps exposing my shit...")... etc.

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>>7764866
>>7764874
I challenge anyone in this thread to prove that Graham Harman isn't an opportunistic wannabe who's been playing this stupid con off for years.

>> No.7764940

He steal your girlfriend or something?