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Harman and the Withdrawn Object
Examine the core arguments of OOO and their most important philosophical implications.
“Harman: 'Every object is more than its relations... The flame translates the cotton into its own terms, encountering its inflammability and nothing else. But the cotton has a real depth that the flame never reaches. This is not a special feature of mind-world relations, it is the structure of all relations.' [...] On the quadruple object: 'Every entity has a real side that withdraws from all contact, and a sensual side that appears only in relation. And every entity is a unified whole that exceeds and underlies its qualities.' [...] Morton on dark ecology: 'There is no Nature with a capital N, only objects, all the way down, none of which occupy a special background position. Ecological thinking that relies on the Nature concept is not environmentalism; it is nostalgia.' [...] Meillassoux: 'Correlationism holds that we can only speak of the correlation between thought and world, never of the world as it is in itself. This is the assumption that speculative realism must overcome.' — Harman, The Quadruple Object (2011); Object-Oriented Ontology (2018); Morton, Dark Ecology (2016); Meillassoux, After Finitude (2008); SEP 'Object-Oriented Ontology'”