RT Article
T1 Object-Oriented Ontology and the Other of We in Anthropocentric Posthumanism
JF Zygon
VO 58
IS 2
SP 315
OP 339
A1 Hendlin, Yogi Hale
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1846182689
AB The object-oriented ontology group of philosophies, and certain strands of posthumanism, overlook important ethical and biological differences, which make a difference. These allied intellectual movements, which have at times found broad popular appeal, attempt to weird life as a rebellion to the forced melting of lifeforms through the artefacts of capitalist realism. They truck, however, in a recursive solipsism resulting in ontological flattening, overlooking that things only show up to us according to our attunement to them. Ecology and biology tend to get lost in the celebration of “thingness,” which puts on par artifacts, trash, and living beings. Such abstractions fail to understand the political, ethical, and ontological implications of eliding the animate/nonanimate distinction, which from the opposite direction (of flattening) reproduce the same violences of historical colonialism (hierarchical humanism). I argue that ontological flattening entails epistemological narcissism, fails to take into account plural (interspecies) perspectives, and propose biosemiotics can address these shortcomings through becoming-with nonhuman knowledge.
K1 Posthumanism
K1 object-oriented ontology
K1 New Materialism
K1 interspecies
K1 biosemiotics
DO 10.1111/zygo.12864