The Thing Beyond It

In speculative realism, everything is both shining into our subjectivity and withdrawing beyond our framing of it. The withdrawal is as much a contributor to the realness of things as they're shining into your subjectivity. As long as that world constantly withdraws, as it also shines into your experience, then it is real to you. It's clearly a central idea in Harmon's idea of the object, the thing beyond itself.