Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of The
Interfact: On Structure and Compatibility in Object-Oriented Ontology by
Gabriel Yoran
Like all Open Humanities Press books, The Interfact is available to
download for free:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-interfact/
Objects in object-oriented ontology (OOO) are mysterious and
inexhaustible entities. But since OOO grants ontological priority to
objects, it should have an easy time referring to objects. But this is
not the case.
In /The Interfact/, Yoran researches the question of how OOO refers to
an object’s haecceity, its ‘thisness.’ He starts with an investigation
into OOO’s eponymous practice, object-oriented programming (OOP) and
identifies not just a plethora of parallels, but finds OOP’s concept of
interfaces (as structured ways of object confrontation in time) a
promising tool to describe both the rift between all objects and their
relative stability.
Yoran then extends Harman’s fourfold diagrams to reflect the linkages
between fourfolds, revealing that objects necessarily are parts of other
objects. This phenomenon, which he calls out-of-phase objects, reveals
links to Simondon’s notion of compatibilisation.
Yoran argues that objects are necessarily integrated into a fabric of
interconnected fourfolds as well as component-compound relations. This
structure solves the problem of object identification, by recognizing
the object-fourfolds as overlaps, a mutually stabilizing structure which
allows for reproducible object confrontation in time, or facts.
‘The complexity of the ideas in this book are challenging to the
intellect, just as the argument itself represents a worthy challenge to
some well-regarded philosophical positions. One of the most exciting
things about this argument is that it takes seriously the ways in which
object-oriented programming can inform object-oriented philosophy, and
vice-versa, demonstrating significant, practical connections between the
two. -/Noah Roderick/, author of /The Being of Analogy/
The Interfact is published in our New Metaphysics series, which is
edited by Graham Harman and Bruno Latour:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/new-metaphysics/
Author Bio
Gabriel Yoran received his PhD on Speculative Realism at the European
Graduate School. Previously, he studied Social and Economic
Communications at the Berlin University of the Arts. He is co-founder of
several digital companies (Steady, Steganos, aka-aki) and works at the
intersection of computer science and philosophy. He contributed “Applied
Metaphysics – Objects in Object-Oriented Ontology and Object-Oriented
Programming” to the Interface Critique Journal and “Interface kaputt –
Cyborgism and Object-Oriented Philosophy” to the volume /Interface
Critique/, published at Kadmos. For more information on his work see
yoran.com <https://yoran.com>
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La magie réaliste: objets, ontologie et causalité by**Timothy Morton:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/la-magie-realiste/
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/la-magie-realiste/>
hyposubjects: on becoming human**by Timothy Morton and Dominic Boyer:
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http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/psychopolitical-anaphylaxis/
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/psychopolitical-anaphylaxis/>
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http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury>
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http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/aesthetic-programming/
<http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/aesthetic-programming/>
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Institute for Creative
Cultures, Coventry University:
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures
http://www.garyhall.info
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