2024-12-22T03:30:58-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/148831348/philosopher-graham-harman-to-join-sci-arc-faculty Nicholas Korody 2016-02-23T19:40:00-05:00 >2016-03-10T19:25:35-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/31/310iyul8n3gqr9n0.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Earlier today, the&nbsp;Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) announced that Graham Harman, Ph.D. will be joining its Liberal Arts faculty. Harman, who taught previously at the&nbsp;American University in Cairo, Egypt, has played a pivotal role in the development of "speculative realism" and "object-oriented ontology" (OOO), two related strands of contemporary philosophy.</p><p>Since his early exploration of the concept of "tool-being" in Martin Heidegger's&nbsp;<em>Being and Time</em>, Harman has laid the groundworks for a popular and influential revision of metaphysics, characterized by the rejection of anthropocentrism, which privileges the human over the nonhuman, and "correlationism", or the post-Kantian assumption that reality emerges from human thinking.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/3i/3ih2mm3j45gt8fos.jpg"></p><p>&ldquo;Graham is a unique and notorious figure in philosophy and the arts. His fresh metaphysical project offers a way of understanding reality not as a product of the human mind, but rather as a cornucopia of independent and vibrant objects, la...</p>