Robert Jackson has just posted up the details of an event I'm very excited to be attending. I'm looking forward to meeting everyone and being exposed to some properly creative people. Here is the abstract for my own paper:
Melancholic Coexistence amongst Objects
Paul J. Ennis
Timothy Morton, in his recent article ‘Here Comes Everything: The Promise of Object-Oriented Ontology,’ has set in motion a discussion of the implications for humans once the object-oriented perspective is taken into account. Against the ‘aesthetics of dejection,’ to borrow a phrase from Dominic Fox, the melancholia in question is to be differentiated from the humbling of the human one finds in other strands of speculative realism. This melancholia arises precisely because one gains a glimpse of a reality that churns below – this being the reality described in the metaphysics of Graham Harman. In this paper my intention is to demonstrate how the melancholia exhibited in object-oriented ontology, and this melancholia remains always in tension with the object-oriented celebration of objects, is better suited to addressing ecological crisis than the standpoint of dejection offered to us by the other variants of speculative realism.
Splendid Paul. I begin something like a response here.
ReplyDeleteCheers Tim! I'll send you the paper as soon as it is finished. Your paper hit me like a tonne of bricks since you manage there to articulate all my vague notions about OOO so well.
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