Episode 8: On Graham Harman's "The Third Table"
JF and Phil discuss Graham Harman's "The Third Table," a short and accessible introduction to "object-oriented ontology." Phil takes us on a tour of his closet, we discover that JF's kids are better at this weird studies stuff than their old man, and the conversation veers through Harman's Lovecraftian "weird realism," Zen's "just sit" meditation, panpsychism, Martin Buber's I and Thou, experimental filmmaking, and more.
\n\nWORKS AND IDEAS CITED IN THIS EPISODE
\n\nGraham Harman, "The Third Table"
\nGraham Harman, Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects
\nMartin Heidegger, Being in Time
\nJ. F. Martel, "Ramble on the Real"
\nGraham Harman, Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy
\nH. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"
\nArthur Stanley Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World
\nGraham Harman, "Objects and the Arts" (lecture)
\nBernardo Kastrup, Why Materialism is Baloney
\nDaniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained
\nWalden, A Game \u2013 A computer game based on Heny David Thoreau\u2019s classic work, Walden
\nSouth Park, \u201cGuitar Queer-O\u201d (season 11, episode 13)
\nWikipedia entry on art critic David Hickey
\nHeraclitus, Fragments
\nMartin Buber, I and Thou
\nThe concept of \u201csubstantial form\u201d in Aristotle\u2019s philosophy
\nMartin Heidegger, "The Question Concerning Technology"
\nSteven Shaviro, The Universe of Things
\nWilliam James, "Does \u2018Consciousness\u2019 Exist?"
\nAndy Warhol\u2019s minimalist films Empire and Sleep
\nWikipedia entry on filmmaker Terrence Malick
\nNeil Jordan (director), The End of the Affair (based on the novel by Graham Greene)
\nJ. F. Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
\nGustav Klimt, The Kiss (painting)
\nMatthew Akers (director), David Blaine: Beyond Magic
\nThe Duffer Brothers (directors), Stranger Things 2