The contortions and convolutions of the 'speculative turn'
The contortions and convolutions of the 'speculative turn'
Focusing principally on the once-feted philosophical movement of object-oriented ontology (OOO), this article examines the ways in which this movement fits into a broader 'speculative turn', which seeks to reverse the purportedly wrongheaded emphasis of post-Kantian critical philosophy upon the finitude of the subject and to once again unleash the fecund potentialities of speculative thought. Identifying several incongruities and tensions that traverse this project, it is argued that OOO exemplifies the difficulties faced when attempting to articulate a decidedly pre-critical metaphysics without accounting for the question of subjectivity.
continental philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, Graham Harman, Immanuel Kant
108-126
Sutherland, Thomas
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5 April 2022
Sutherland, Thomas
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Sutherland, Thomas
(2022)
The contortions and convolutions of the 'speculative turn'.
Diacritics, 49 (1), .
(doi:10.1353/dia.2021.0005).
Abstract
Focusing principally on the once-feted philosophical movement of object-oriented ontology (OOO), this article examines the ways in which this movement fits into a broader 'speculative turn', which seeks to reverse the purportedly wrongheaded emphasis of post-Kantian critical philosophy upon the finitude of the subject and to once again unleash the fecund potentialities of speculative thought. Identifying several incongruities and tensions that traverse this project, it is argued that OOO exemplifies the difficulties faced when attempting to articulate a decidedly pre-critical metaphysics without accounting for the question of subjectivity.
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Accepted/In Press date: 15 February 2022
Published date: 5 April 2022
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continental philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, Graham Harman, Immanuel Kant
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