H/T to Timothy Richardson. This morning my friend Tim sent me the following link as an interesting example of an object:
A team of astronomers has identified a novel new kind of galactic wanderer – lone, Jupiter-sized planets expelled from forming solar systems and drifting in the empty void between the stars.
The researchers, led by Takahiro Sumi of Japan’s Osaka University, spotted 10 such free-floating “orphan planets” in data from a 2006-7 microlensing survey of our galaxy’s centre, which searched for the tell-tale sign of transiting bodies’ gravitational fields distorting light from distant stars.
Team member David Bennett, of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, explained that this first sighting in a small portion of the Milky Way points to enormous numbers of orphans. He said: “Our survey is like a population census. We sampled a portion of the galaxy, and based on these data, can estimate overall numbers in the galaxy.”
In addition to “dark objects”, there could thus be “rogue objects”. Rogue objects would be objects that pass in and out of assemblages, breaking with relations, as well as modifying relations in the assemblages into which they enter. Some famous examples of rogue objects in literature might be Melville’s Bartleby as well as Kafka’s Joseph K. In philosophy we might think of Deleuze’s empty square, anomalous, dark precursor, and quasi-cause, as well as Badiou’s subject.
This would bring the tally of objects to four: dark objects, dim objects (which andreling introduces; love that term!), rogue objects, and what might be called “domestic objects”. Domestic objects would be objects heavily enchained in an assemblage such as a cell in my body dependent on a host of other cells.
Larval Subjects . 
May 26, 2011 at 12:24 am
Hawthorne’s short story Wakefield too.
“…perhaps the strangest, instance on record, of marital delinquency; and, moreover, as remarkable a freak as may be found in the whole list of human oddities.”
[from the first paragraph] Here’s the remainder…
http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1787/
May 26, 2011 at 12:44 am
Frances,
In a lot of ways the body that appears in the laundry room of your Cooperative Village is a sort of rogue object that produces another object. Out of place, it reconfigures the relations of all those involved, especially the female protagonist that herself becomes a rogue object as a consequence.
May 26, 2011 at 2:43 am
Could we add Impossible Objects to that list, such as circled squares? Or would impossibilities fall under the theoretical potential of any object such as the square could be circular if the conditions of the universe were different or maybe they would fall underfictions? I am also interested in questions of whether voids or nothings are dark objeccts or if their inaction or negation IS a type of difference or antidifference in its own right
May 26, 2011 at 2:56 am
Drew,
Interesting question. I’m inclined to side with Graham here on the distinction between real and sensual objects. For Harman sensual objects don’t exist in their own right but only on the interior of a real object. However I always wish to also treat literary and other texts as genuine real objects that circulate in the world. My aphorism is that texts aren’t simply about something, they are something. In this respect, insofar as texts inscribe impossible objects (think Borges) they could also circulate impossible objects.
May 26, 2011 at 9:04 am
It would be nice to have a “d” word to complete the alliteration of dark, dim and domestic. Frances, above, in referencing Hawthorn, chances upon “delinquent.” It sort of fits with the “domestic” theme a little. Dark, dim, domestic and delinquent objects…
Just a passing fancy.
May 28, 2011 at 1:23 am
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May 28, 2011 at 2:41 am
I’ve been toying with the idea of ‘free radicals’ when considering standardised, metricated, decontextualised ‘policy products’ in current renditions of ‘evidence based policy’ in education, but ‘rogue’ or ‘delinquent’ objects is much more useful! I love the randomness implied in the wanderings of delinquent objects.