89 - Graham Harman: Speculative Realism & Philosophy of Art and Architecture

Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Sci-Arc, the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. He is one of the leading metaphysicians in the continental tradition of philosophy and an influential philosopher of art. Robinson and Graham discuss his work at the forefront of the speculative realist trend in the contemporary continental world, where he is known for his object-oriented ontology, or OOO. They also talk about the philosophy of art and architecture, touching on figures like H.P. Lovecraft and Duchamp, who Graham has written about extensively in his work. Check out Graham’s latest book, Architecture and Objects, linked below:

Architecture and Objects: https://a.co/d/ewHg5Ur

OUTLINE

00:00 In This Episode…

01:54 Introduction

05:22 Graham and Continental Philosophy

13:04 Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology

27:05 On Debating Slavoj Žižek

30:28 Fictional Objects

34:42 Real and Sensual Objects

52:14 Aesthetics OOO

59:47 Was Performance the First Art?

01:07:53 H.P. Lovecraft and Philosophy

01:17:33 Surrealism, Dada, and Literalism

01:23:19 Architecture, Philosophy, and Metaphysics

01:46:06 Philosophical Formalism and Architecture

02:00:20 Final Thoughts

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Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between.