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Object-Oriented Ontology i kapitał perfomatywny, czyli nowe spojrzenie na przedmioty w działaniu
Object-Oriented Ontology and Performative Capital, or a New Perspective on Objects in Action

Author(s): Sylwia Mieczkowska
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
Keywords: Graham Harman; OOO; speculative realism; ontology; performative capital; posthumanism; agency turn; speculative ethics

Summary/Abstract: The article is a critical reflection on the problem of agency of objects, which is analyzed on the basis of chair renewal in the perspective of Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology. In the course of the analysis it appears that the theory of the American philosopher is insufficient to grasp the problem of objects activity, therefore the article proposes an authorial posthuman category - the concept of performative capital - intended to answer the question of how objects work and, simultaneously, how they exist.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 160
  • Page Range: 13-13
  • Page Count: 31
  • Language: Polish