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Object-Oriented Philosophy The Noumenon's New Clothes
"Object-Oriented Philosophy The Noumenon's New Clothes" belongs to Brassier's realism line, where abstraction, truth, and rational critique are used to pressure-test the archive's more charismatic inheritances.
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Core idea
These pages matter because they show one major route by which the archive is forced into clearer argumentative language. Brassier's realism turns the afterlife of Land and the CCRU into a problem of truth, abstraction, and rational critique rather than scene myth or stylistic intensity alone.
The mechanism is pressure through philosophy. Sellars, Laruelle, Badiou, nihilism, and realism all become ways of testing whether concepts survive once they are detached from their original scene charisma and forced into stricter conceptual articulation.
That matters because this section is about philosophical afterlives, not only loyalty or rejection. Brassier keeps the archive alive precisely by refusing to leave its concepts in their original rhetorical atmosphere.
How to read this text
Read for how realism, truth, or abstraction are being defined before following the page into its local debate or target.
Track where the page tests Land or post-CCRU concepts against a stricter account of philosophy. That pressure is usually the real hinge of the text.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 14
word on Speculative Realism. To summarise, this book is a xvii critique of Object-Oriented Philosophy and what it stands for. but it is also far more than just a critique. During its long gestation, this book has benefited immeas urably from my discussions with Ray Brassier.
Definition · paragraph 14
word on Speculative Realism. To summarise, this book is a xvii critique of Object-Oriented Philosophy and what it stands for. but it is also far more than just a critique.
Definition · paragraph 2
OBJECT-ORIENTED PHILOSOPHY The Noumenon's New Clothes P E T E R W O L F E N D A L E URBANO MIC
Definition · paragraph 7
Although I never identified as a 'Speculative Realist'. I am certain that the extensive online discussion and correspondence that SR inspired was formative for my philo sophical development. It is in this context that I first seriously encountered Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Philosophy (OOP), initially in discussion and then through his own blog;2 and it is as part of this community that I witnessed the genesis and dissemination of Object-Oriented Ontology (000).
Method · paragraph 11
There were a number of reasons-not least my own stubbornness-but the most obvious was OOP's increasing popularity: not only were Har man's books now being read and referenced throughout the humanities, but the phrase 'object-oriented' began to appear in calls for papers both in and outside of philosophy, while 'objects' became a new and supposedly exciting theme for art exhibitions.
Appears in sections
Brassier, Grant, and Speculative Realism Primary section
Analytic and speculative receptions of Land and the CCRU through Brassier, Grant, and adjacent philosophical lines.