Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Sci-Arc, the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. He is one of the leading metaphysicians in the continental tradition of philosophy and an influential philosopher of art. Robinson and Graham discuss his work at the forefront of the speculative realist trend in the contemporary continental world, where he is known for his object-oriented ontology, or OOO. They also talk about the philosophy of art and architecture, touching on figures like H.P. Lovecraft and Duchamp, who Graham has written about extensively in his work. Check out Graham’s latest book, Architecture and Objects, linked below:
Architecture and Objects: https://a.co/d/ewHg5Ur
OUTLINE
00:00 In This Episode…
01:54 Introduction
05:22 Graham and Continental Philosophy
13:04 Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology
27:05 On Debating Slavoj Žižek
30:28 Fictional Objects
34:42 Real and Sensual Objects
52:14 Aesthetics OOO
59:47 Was Performance the First Art?
01:07:53 H.P. Lovecraft and Philosophy
01:17:33 Surrealism, Dada, and Literalism
01:23:19 Architecture, Philosophy, and Metaphysics
01:46:06 Philosophical Formalism and Architecture
02:00:20 Final Thoughts
Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com
Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between.