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> probably borrowed the term from behavioral scientists It's from epistemology. It is not there to refer to the subjective but to the objective. > A similar t
by mdp2021 3mo ago
> probably borrowed the term from behavioral scientists
It's from epistemology. It is not there to refer to the subjective but to the objective.
> A similar thing happened to "object oriented" which has been misused by philosophers and visual artists alike
For instance?
- smokel 3mo agoIn the 1990s "Object-Oriented Ontology" was introduced by Graham Harman [1]. The name was borrowed from computing, but its meaning has little or nothing to do with Simula or Smalltalk. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Harman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Harman
- mdp2021 3mo agoThis is very interesting especially in the terms of what I think some call a "rabbit hole", but we could be curious on how and why you saw misuse.
- Der_Einzige 3mo agoThe OOO/"Speculative Realism" crowd are loony charlatans who make the current post-modern neo marxist politburo who runs the humanities parts of academia look downright sane. My response to unironic OOO believers is that we must wage war on objects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistentialism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistentialism