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• Cartesian-Sartrian Ontology of the Object

  Morin's diagnostic name (recurring across Part II of her 2022 monograph) for the ontology — common to Descartes and Sartre — that both MP's late ontology and Nancy's materialism work against. Its features: (a) objects are strictly delimite…

• Cautious Anthropomorphism

  A strategic use of human predicates for non-human things in order to defamiliarise both terms — neither to make stones knowable like us, nor to flatten ontological difference into a uniform plane. The term enters the contemporary new-mater…

• Freedom of the Stone (Nancy)

  Nancy's claim — anchored at the end-fragment of The Experience of Freedom (EF 158–60) — that freedom extends not only to all living beings but also to the stone. The claim is intelligible only after a radical de-subjectivisation of freedom…

• Graham Harman

  American philosopher, founder of object-oriented ontology (OOO). Co-editor of The Speculative Turn (with Levi Bryant and Nick Srnicek, 2011); one of the original 2007 Goldsmiths College SR participants. Distinguishes himself from Meillasso…

• In-itself-for-us

  Merleau-Ponty's name (PoP 336) for the paradoxical category the perceived thing belongs to: a thing that is the correlate of my body and that "denies that it is" such a correlate (PP 339). Morin argues this is not a yoking of two pre-given…

• Merleau-Ponty and Nancy on Sense and Being: At the Limits of Phenomenology Marie-Eve Morin, 2022

  Author(s): Marie-Eve Morin · Year: 2022 · Type: book

• Quentin Meillassoux

  French philosopher (b. 1967), central figure in the speculative realist movement that emerged from the April 2007 Goldsmiths College workshop. Author of Après la finitude (2006; After Finitude, trans. Brassier 2008) — the foundational SR t…

• Steven Shaviro

  American philosopher and media theorist, DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. Author of Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics (2009); The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism (2014); and other wo…