SPECULATIVE REALISM AND OBJECT-ORIENTED ONTOLOGY AS POST-POSTMODERN TREND
Abstract
In this article post-postmodern features of speculative realism and object-oriented ontology are considered. The consideration is made through the discovery of postmodern topics in the current eventuality. Accordingly, post-postmodern is understood as a trend in which postmodern develops, partially overcoming itself. Speculative realism and object-oriented ontology are showcased as a mode of modern anthropocentrism resistance. To realize this, the article introduces such a concept as the invividual, which reflects the current state of a human being. It is displayed that just an invividual escapes the correlation between reality and human thought. This prevention of the subject hypotrophy is seen as the condition of humankind’s survival in the urgent eventuality, and the invividual as a hyposubject. The concept of invividual allows displaying post-postmodern ontology, topology, ecology and anthropology in the speculative realism and object-oriented ontology context. Special attention is paid to the turn of ontology to ontology and geometry to topology. In addition, how in this context postmodern interest in the topology turns into post-postmodern interest in the atmosphere, affective landscape, which needs attunement, is researched. The atmospheric in this case is given by a weird, vibrant matter as a matter vital, lively and sprightly, full of energy and life and at the same time quivering, pulsating. Moving from postmodern non-Euclidean topology the peculiarities of speculative realism’s and object-oriented ontology’s topology are studied as post-postmodern. Such a topology describes places, which merge with events, happening there. It includes strange dimensions with a lack of perspective laws atmosphere as an atmosphere of invividual. This atmosphere, environment of plastiglomerates, industrial relics and vaccinated organisms, composited by the encounter of non-human and non-human objects and realizing futurality right now, need special attunement in post-postmodern vein.
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