...David Golumbia The theoretical movements known as Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology depend on the “critique of correlationism” offered by the French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux in his 2008 After Finitude . There Meillassoux claims to have shown that Kant and all philosophers...

... to react to the exclusion of consciousness and agency from affective intensities such as Massumi’s by filling the cosmos with both. The option has found advocates also in a broader attempt to rethink the object on philosophical grounds—an “object-­ oriented ontology” that shades often into a revival...

... Western thought s capacity for knowledge to [shift (invert)] into connivance (107). Reading Jullien s work on landscape, one understands that some of what is currently en vogue in contemporary Western thought I am thinking of object- oriented ontology, for example, or the so- called new materialism...

... themes are in a state of mutual imbrication: the ontico-ontological continuum, and the perspectivism-universalism nexus. If the purpose of ontological thinking is to make sure that the “One” of Being is not reduced to any determinate “ontic one,” the objective of perspectival thinking...

... within. The objective is to realize a Mobius-­strip-­like relationship between Being and Knowing, rather than perpetuate a categorical binary divide between the two. Spanos is primarily an ontological thinker who derives politics from ontology. It is interesting that in his rejoinder to Said...

... of amphibolous usage) to include their role in empirical knowledge. Osborne / Kant and the Possibility of Comparative Studies 11 ontological movement that produces both subject and object as poles of its immanent difference, time is ontologically more fundamental...

..., Orientalism (1978). Following the Foucauldian analysis of knowledge-­power relations, Chatterjee also examines how the postcolonial Indian state implements its developmental plans by “consti- tuting the objects of planning as objects of knowledge.”3 In line with Fou- cault, Chatterjee points out...

... philology (O, 120–21). Accord- ing to this model, the Orientalist himself becomes the new God, creating ‘‘the Orient’’ as a culturally reified, historicized object of research, and, in the process, legitimating the ‘‘modern’’ heuristics and doxologies of philology, history, and translation...

... mean, exactly? The first translation offered by the dictionaries is “mood,” in the double sense of, firstly, a feeling so interior and subjective that it cannot be conveyed by concepts, but also, and secondly, in the more objective sense of a “climate,” as it sometimes seems to surround...

... on this commitment to bodies, however, musicking could not be conceptualized as an object or a thing. Rather, the strength that musicking seemed to lend the coordination of embodiment with knowl- edge lay with its processual, action-oriented,­ and temporal character. It was method, critical dispositive...

... liberalism, Quentin Meillassoux’s anticorrelation- ism. There might be a dispute regarding just what counts as Cartesian- ism, dialectic, or object-oriented­ ontology after these thinkers have staked their ground, but we need them in order to map our own conceptual ter- rain. We need these figures when...

... and the utter reduction of its ‘‘object’’ to disposable reserve. To return to Heidegger, then, the Abgeschiedene, the thinker/poet who has been estranged from his or her discursive homeland by the total...

... relation between two distinct, in principle possibly even independently exist- ing, substances: soul and body, mind and world, subject and object. Per- ception and action, truth and error, knowledge and ignorance are all mere contact points, as it were, between the two elements in that dichotomy...

... of the Cold War period and by so-called­ globalization. This specific engagement gives his work intellectual and political relevance today. Yet one should not mistake the diversity of objects and concerns informing his writings with a lack of a defined interest to which his works always...

... that precipi- tates ambiguity and anxiety, that which, according to Heidegger, has no thing (das Nicht) as its object:7 ‘‘On all sides, the physical world of solid ob- jects now slidingly displaces itself from around him, and he floated into an ether of visions’’ (P, 85; my emphasis...

... elevates this interruption between sensation and its object into a higher-­order noncoincidence that fractures sensation itself. Derrida rehearses this dislocation in a rapid dis- placement from the eye to the gaze: “If two gazes look into each other’s eyes, can one then say that they are touching...

... of the complex philosophical entanglement between ontology, episte- mology, science, and the emergence of a notion of a transcendental subject in Western Ochoa Gautier / Acoustic Multinaturalism 121 subject’s scientific understanding of the nature of an object) is confused...

... is marked (not so much by what it claims as its most typical example or object but) by those phenomena that seem to exceed its borders or boundaries, exceeding the borders either of the con- cepts employed within this formalization or the relationships construed to hold between certain key concepts...

..., and texts. To make any of these articulate requires the voice of a present interpreter. If that interpreter denies that he has a voice, ignoring the cognitive and other interests of his own time and place and pretend- ing that his construction of the past constitutes its “objective...

...- metrics. Biometrics dreams of a univocal deployment of pure geometry in its desire objectively to apprehend the subject of flesh. Yet already encoded in the machine, already orienting its algorithms and pixelated templates, is a phantasmatic body that it fails to acknowledge: invisibilized because...