89 - Graham Harman: Speculative Realism & Philosophy of Art and Architecture

Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Sci-Arc, the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. He is one of the leading metaphysicians in the continental tradition of philosophy and an influential philosopher of art. Robinson and Graham discuss his work at the forefront of the speculative realist trend in the contemporary continental world, where he is known for his object-oriented ontology, or OOO. They also talk about the philosophy of art and architecture, touching on figures like H.P. Lovecraft and Duchamp, who Graham has written about extensively in his work. Check out Graham’s latest book, Architecture and Objects, linked below: Architecture and Objects: https://a.co/d/ewHg5Ur OUTLINE 00:00 In This Episode… 01:54 Introduction 05:22 Graham and Continental Philosophy 13:04 Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology 27:05 On Debating Slavoj Žižek 30:28 Fictional Objects 34:42 Real and Sensual Objects 52:14 Aesthetics OOO 59:47 Was Performance the First Art? 01:07:53 H.P. Lovecraft and Philosophy 01:17:33 Surrealism, Dada, and Literalism 01:23:19 Architecture, Philosophy, and Metaphysics 01:46:06 Philosophical Formalism and Architecture 02:00:20 Final Thoughts Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between.