About this Episode

JF and Phil discuss Graham Harman's "The Third Table," a short and accessible introduction to "object-oriented ontology." Phil takes us on a tour of his closet, we discover that JF's kids are better at this weird studies stuff than their old man, and the conversation veers through Harman's Lovecraftian "weird realism," Zen's "just sit" meditation, panpsychism, Martin Buber's I and Thou, experimental filmmaking, and more.

WORKS AND IDEAS CITED IN THIS EPISODE

Graham Harman, "The Third Table"

Graham Harman, Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects

Martin Heidegger, Being in Time

J. F. Martel, "Ramble on the Real"

Graham Harman, Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy

H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Arthur Stanley Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World

Graham Harman, "Objects and the Arts" (lecture)

Bernardo Kastrup, Why Materialism is Baloney

Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained

Walden, A Game – A computer game based on Heny David Thoreau’s classic work, Walden

South Park, “Guitar Queer-O” (season 11, episode 13)

Wikipedia entry on art critic David Hickey

Heraclitus, Fragments

Martin Buber, I and Thou

The concept of “substantial form” in Aristotle’s philosophy

Martin Heidegger, "The Question Concerning Technology"

Steven Shaviro, The Universe of Things

William James, "Does ‘Consciousness’ Exist?"

Andy Warhol’s minimalist films Empire and Sleep

Wikipedia entry on filmmaker Terrence Malick

Neil Jordan (director), The End of the Affair (based on the novel by Graham Greene)

J. F. Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice

Gustav Klimt, The Kiss (painting)

Matthew Akers (director), David Blaine: Beyond Magic

The Duffer Brothers (directors), Stranger Things 2