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Graham Harman - Object Oriented Ontology

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Relation of the Human Subject With the World Is Not a Privilege Relation for Philosophy

The relation of the human subject with the world is not or is a privileged relation for philosophy. Maasu doesn't like the finitude of kant's maasu thinks we can have absolute knowledge through mathematical means. And if i want to talk about fire burning cotton, as islamic philosophy did, what i'm really talking about is how the fire cotton relation appears to the human understanding according to space, time and ind categories. I can't talk about fire cotton because i can't see it without being human. That is the central assumption of present day philosophy, analytic and continental,. for everyone, except whitehead and someone close to him.

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