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Graham Harman - Object Oriented Ontology

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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How Does a Hair Falling Off My Head Affect Me?

I like this notion that if change is the undercurrent of everything, then to a certain extent, you also end up with a gradualism. And my book in materialism is the place where i take that on. For latour, as for whitehead, every single thing an entity does is important to its constitution. It changes him. So how do you distinguish between a hair falling off my head and me moving to egypt by quantitative impact? The sun polls on me, but i also pull on the sun a little bit. But i need t account for the fact that sometimes there's no effect whatever.

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