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Taffy From the Objects Make Happy series   (SA/2024) [1]     I.    At the heart of Graham Harman's object-oriented philosophy is the no...

Messrs. Lovecraft and Burns   I.   My love is like a red, red rose ...    For many people - indeed, we can almost certainly say most peop...

Stanford University Press (2015)     I.    I might not share Byung-Chul Han's political views, but I certainly share many of his influen...

Dr. Ian Bogost: bogost.com   I have to admit, four chapters and 120 pages in, I'm a bit bored with this book by Bogost. The as...

Basic Books (2016) Ch. 1: Everywhere, Playgrounds For someone keen to live in the world and not inside his own head - an admir...

(Penguin, 2018) According to Graham Harman, Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) is first and foremost a form of realism. It is thus a cou...

Picasso: La Table (1919) I. Synopsis The Third Table (2012) is a fascinating short piece by the object-oriented philosopher ...

Hiromi and Lisa by Photographer Hal # 24 from the series Zatsuran  (2013) I illustrated in part one of this post how D. H. Lawr...

Rem and Marina by Photographer Hal   # 07 from the series Flesh Love Japanese photographer Haruhiko Kawaguchi (aka Photogra...

Still from the video for the song Animals  by Maroon 5  Featuring Adam Levine and his wife Behati Prinsloo  Dir. Samuel Bayer, (2014...

17thC print depicting a happy dendrophile Lawrence loves trees and although he concedes they're mindless, he excitedly writ...

Kazimir Malevich, Black Square (1915)  Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow I'm not sure I fully understand what physicists and audio e...

In a digital age, the making, distribution, and consumption of images is perhaps our most fundamental activity. It deserves, theref...