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Harman's Architecture Journey
- Graham Harman's engagement with architecture began in 2007 with lectures at the Architectural Association in London.
- By 2016, he joined SCI-Arc in California and is writing his first architecture-focused book.
Aesthetics as Object Tension
- In Object-Oriented Ontology (Tripolology), aesthetics is about the tension between objects and their qualities.
- Objects paradoxically both have and don't have their qualities, opposing literalism that equates objects to their qualities.
Ethics vs. Aesthetics as First Philosophy
- Harman contrasts Levinas' ethics as first philosophy with his own view of aesthetics as primary.
- Levinas highlights surprising 'otherness,' while Harman emphasizes in-sensual aesthetic experience like pure enjoyment.