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Clary Theatre in the Student Success Center | Posted: April 19, 2010
Summary Sentence:
A first-time gathering of foundational figures in OOO
Full Summary:
Bringing some of its foundational figures together for the first time, the inaugural Object-Oriented Ontology Symposium marks an effort to brew a new flavor of post-continental philosophy for the twenty-first century. The Friday, April 23rd Symposium 8:30am-5:30pm is free and open to all. Seating is limited.
...Bringing some of its foundational figures together for the first time, the inaugural Object-Oriented Ontology Symposium marks an effort to brew a new flavor of post-continental philosophy for the twenty-first century.
The Friday, April 23rd Symposium 8:30am-5:30pm is free and open to all. Seating is limited.
Ontology is the philosophical study of existence. Object-oriented ontology ("OOO" for short) puts things at the center of this study. Its proponents contend that nothing has special status, but that everything exists equally""plumbers, cotton, bonobos, DVD players, and sandstone, for example. In contemporary thought, things are usually taken either as the aggregation of ever smaller bits (scientific naturalism) or as constructions of human behavior and society (social relativism). OOO steers a path between the two, drawing attention to things at all scales (from atoms to alpacas, bits to blinis), and pondering their nature and relations with one another as much with ourselves.
SPEAKERS
Ian Bogost Hugh Crawford
Levi Bryant
Grant Harman
Steven Shaviro
RESPONDENTS
Hugh Crawford
Carl DiSalvo
John Johnston
Barbara Stafford
Eugene Thacker
Contact Ian Bogost with any questions: ibogost@gatech.edu
