The Third Object-Oriented Ontology Symposium,
The New School, September 14, 2011
9:45–10:00 Welcome/Introduction
McKenzie Wark
10:00–11:00 Graham Harman, “The Four Most Typical
Objections to OOO”
Aaron Pedinotti, “Occasions, Decisions, and the
Given: Some Remarks on the Technical
Underpinnings of the Harman–Shaviro Debate”
(Ken Wark, moderator)
11:00–11:30 Break
11:30–12:30 Steven Shaviro, “Panpsychism And/Or
Eliminativism”
McKenzie Wark, “P(OO): Praxis (object-oriented)”
(Katherine Behar, moderator)
12:30–2:30 Luncheon w/ Jane Bennett (hosted by Carin Kuoni)
Ken Wark and the Vera List Center for Art and
Politics
2:30–3:30 Shannon Mattern, “Everything is Infrastructure”
Levi Bryant, “Strange Substances: On the Nature
of Objects”
(Eugene Thacker, moderator)
3:30–4:00 Break
4:00–5:00 Tim Morton, “Objects, Aesthetics, Causality”
Mabel Wilson, “Object Lesson — A Pedagogy for
Teaching Architects”
(moderator TBA)
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6:00–8:00 Opening, And Another Thing exhibition,
Co-curated by Katherine Behar and Emmy
Mikelson
The James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center
August 31, 2011 at 1:48 am
Excitement abounds. Any chance this will be live streamed for boatless folks with depleted travel budgets?
August 31, 2011 at 2:18 am
I’ll see what we can do. Morton is generally good at these things. I’ll one up you. Why not find a way to host us all in Hawaii!
August 31, 2011 at 5:00 am
That’s very doable, depending on financial arrangements, timing, and level of interest. UH-Manoa is in the unfortunate position of being a land-grant college in a state exiting one of the worst per-capita budget shortfalls in the country, so it’s unable to fund travel, lodging, AND sizable stipends. Are the symposium speakers being paid?
August 31, 2011 at 6:45 am
That’s how we’ll know that OOO has entered its decadence: when we have friends arranging junkets to Hawaii for us. At that point, we may as well just roll out the cocaine and the Dean Martin/Sammy Davis Jr. recordings.
August 31, 2011 at 6:52 am
Yes indeed, livestreamed, mp3′d, the works, on my blog…
August 31, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Kris, I seldom get stipends for my talk so that’s no issue on my end. It would be great to meet you and all your students!
September 1, 2011 at 12:39 am
Decadent…nah! We have objects here, too! Bottle-nosed and sandy objects. We also have the only native population not recognized as such by the U.S. federal government, who continually practice the type of ‘politics’ Levi describes in his most recent essay. It’s a heck of a place, much more than the tourist paradise it’s represented as being. :)
September 2, 2011 at 5:55 am
Where precisely at The New School is this all taking place?
After two years of citing what would become the mainstay OOO blogs to provoke conversations with my rhetor colleagues without once braving the comment sections of the sites themselves, I should probably take this opportunity to leave my upstate nest and ask at least one of the questions that have come up along the way.