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The Democracy of Objects

Levi R. Bryant

Series: New Metaphysics 

Open Humanities Press

An imprint of Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, ©2011

Contents

• Dedication
• List of Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Towards a Finally Subjectless Object
• 1. Grounds For a Realist Ontology
  • 1.1. The Death of Ontology and the Rise of Correlationism
  • 1.2. Breaking the Correlationist Circle
  • 1.3. The Onto-Transcendental Grounds of Experimental Activity
  • 1.4. Objections and Replies
  • 1.5. Origins of Correlationism: Actualism and the Epistemic Fallacy
  • 1.6. On the Alleged Primacy of Perception
• 2. The Paradox of Substance
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Aristotle, Substance, and Qualities
  • 2.3. The Paradox of Substance
• 3. Virtual Proper Being
  • 3.1. The Mug Blues
  • 3.2. Deleuze's Schizophrenia: Between Monism and Pluralism
  • 3.3. Virtual Proper Being
  • 3.4. The Problem With Rabbits and Hats
  • 3.5. Žižek's Objecting Objects
• 4. The Interior of Objects
  • 4.1. The Closure of Objects
  • 4.2. Interactions Between Objects
  • 4.3. Autopoietic and Allopoietic Objects
  • 4.4. Translation
  • 4.5. Autopoietic Asphyxiation: The Case of the Lacanian Clinic
• 5. Regimes of Attraction, Parts, and Structure
  • 5.1. Constraints
  • 5.2. Parts and Wholes: The Strange Mereology of Object-Oriented Ontology
  • 5.3. Temporalized Structure and Entropy
• 6. The Four Theses of Flat Ontology
  • 6.1. Two Ontological Discourses: Lacan's Graphs of Sexuation and Two Ways of Thinking Being
  • 6.2. The World Does Not Exist
  • 6.3. Being is Flat
• Bibliography