Duel + Duet with Graham Harman
Slavoj Žižek
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Jul 2, 20262 March 2017
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In the Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) of Harman and his colleagues, the human subject is redefined according to the pressures of a “flat ontology” that treats all objects equally. In opposition to OOO, Žižek upholds the pivotal role of the subject as theorized in the tradition of the German philosophers Immanuel Kant, G.W. Hegel and F.W.J.
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The transcript features a detailed philosophical dialogue between two thinkers discussing object-oriented ontology, realism versus idealism, political theory, architecture, and the nature of reality. They explore concepts like the limits of human knowledge, the role of aesthetics, the political implications of ideology, and the challenges of contemporary politics including Trump and leftist movements. The conversation also touches on history, art, and computational ontology in architecture.
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