{"title":"Graham Harman","description":"\u003cp\u003eGraham Harman's works delve into the nuanced intersections of \u003cem\u003ephilosophy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003earts and culture\u003c\/em\u003e, exploring the complex relationships between objects and perception. His writings challenge conventional thought, inviting readers to reconsider the nature and agency of objects beyond human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom philosophical treatises to reflections on architecture and art, Harman’s books engage with \u003cstrong\u003eobject-oriented ontology\u003c\/strong\u003e and its implications across various disciplines. 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At the heart of this philosophy is the idea that objects—whether real, fictional, natural, artificial, human or non-human—are mutually autonomous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this brilliant new introduction, Graham Harman lays out the history, ideas and impact of \u003cem\u003eObject-Oriented Ontology\u003c\/em\u003e, taking in everything from art and literature, politics and natural science along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46550319530220,"sku":"9780241269152","price":22.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24490853482273.jpg?v=1749969798"},{"product_id":"art-and-objects-by-graham-harman-9781509512683","title":"Art and Objects","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, the founder of object-oriented ontology develops his view that aesthetics is the central discipline of philosophy. Whereas science must attempt to grasp an object in terms of its observable qualities, philosophy and art cannot proceed in this way because they don't have direct access to their objects. Hence, philosophy shares the same fate as art in being compelled to communicate indirectly, allusively, or elliptically, rather than in the clear propositional terms that are often taken—wrongly—to be the sole stuff of genuine philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eConceiving of philosophy and art in this way allows us to reread key debates in aesthetic theory and to view art history in a different way. The formalist criticism of Greenberg and Fried is rejected for its refusal to embrace the innate theatricality and deep multiplicity of every artwork. This has consequences for art criticism, making pictorial content more important than formalism thinks but less entwined with the social sphere than anti-formalism holds. It also has consequences for art history, as the surrealists, David, and Poussin, among others, gain in importance. The close link between aesthetics and ontology also invites a new periodization of modern philosophy as a whole, and the habitual turn away from Kant’s thing-in-itself towards an increase in philosophical \"immanence\" is shown to be a false dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis major work will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy, aesthetics, art history, and cultural theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000542445804,"sku":"9781509512683","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12149083482725.jpg?v=1763283038"},{"product_id":"objects-untimely-by-graham-harman-9781509556540","title":"Objects Untimely","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eObjects generate time; time does not generate or change objects. 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And against the narrative convictions of time as the course of historical events, the objects and encounters associated with archaeology push back against the very temporal delimitations which defined the field and its objects ever since its professionalization in the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a study ranging from the ruins of ancient Corinth, Mycenae, and Troy to debates over time from Aristotle and al-Ash‘ari through Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead, the authors draw on alternative conceptions of time as retroactive, percolating, topological, cyclical, and generational, as consisting of countercurrents or of a surface tension between objects and their own qualities. \u003ci\u003eObjects Untimely\u003c\/i\u003e invites us to reconsider the modern notion of objects as inert matter serving as a receptacle for human categories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000691114220,"sku":"9781509556540","price":131.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12587653482725.jpg?v=1763297682"},{"product_id":"waves-and-stones-by-graham-harman-9780241392867","title":"Waves and Stones","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA new exploration of our conception of reality, by one of the world's most influential philosophers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow do we understand the world and our place in it? Do our lives consist of a small number of dramatic turning points, or is there nothing but a series of gradual changes from infancy to old age? Are political elections genuinely transformational, or merely arbitrary points along a shifting cultural timeline? And in physics, how can the continuities of general relativity coexist with the discontinuities of quantum theory?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eWaves and Stones\u003c\/em\u003e, Graham Harman shows that this paradoxical interaction—the question of whether reality is made up of sudden jumps or is laid out along a gentle gradient with no clear divisions between the various things in the world—permeates every area of human life. What's more, this paradox is as old as human thought itself. In exploring how the continuous and discrete relate to each other, he takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey from the philosophers of ancient Greece, through the writings of the great Arab historian Ibn Khaldun, through architectural and evolutionary theory, the compatibility of religion with science, and the wave-particle duality of matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo explore the relationship between the continuous and the discrete, Harman shows, is to consider the very fabric of reality. With this dazzling new book, he proposes a new way of thinking about this ancient problem, with profound implications for our understanding of ourselves and the bewilderingly complex world in which we live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47342013612268,"sku":"9780241392867","price":80.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3a3418d46452a2de68d07a4cbc15046d.jpg?v=1772220355"},{"product_id":"objects-untimely-by-graham-harman-9781509556557","title":"Objects Untimely","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eObjects generate time; time does not generate or change objects. 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Instead, Harman contends, architecture can employ OOO to reconsider traditional notions of form and function that emphasize their relational characteristics—form with a building's visual style, function with its stated purpose—and constrain architecture's possibilities through literalism. Harman challenges these understandings by proposing de-relationalized versions of both (\u003cem\u003ezero-form\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ezero-function\u003c\/em\u003e) that together provide a convincing rejoinder to Immanuel Kant's dismissal of architecture as \"impure.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough critical engagement with the writings of Peter Eisenman and fresh assessments of buildings by Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, and Zaha Hadid, \u003cem\u003eArchitecture and Objects\u003c\/em\u003e forwards a bold vision of architecture. 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