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<p class="MsoNormal">Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce
the publication of The Interfact: On Structure and Compatibility
in Object-Oriented Ontology by Gabriel Yoran<br>
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Like all Open Humanities Press books, The Interfact is available
to download for free: <br>
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href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-interfact/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-interfact/</a><br>
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Objects in object-oriented ontology (OOO) are mysterious and
inexhaustible entities. But since OOO grants ontological priority
to objects, it should have an easy time referring to objects. But
this is not the case. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In <i>The Interfact</i>, Yoran researches the
question of how OOO refers to an object’s haecceity, its
‘thisness.’ He starts with an investigation into OOO’s eponymous
practice, object-oriented programming (OOP) and identifies not
just a plethora of parallels, but finds OOP’s concept of
interfaces (as structured ways of object confrontation in time) a
promising tool to describe both the rift between all objects and
their relative stability. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yoran then extends Harman’s fourfold diagrams
to reflect the linkages between fourfolds, revealing that objects
necessarily are parts of other objects. This phenomenon, which he
calls out-of-phase objects, reveals links to Simondon’s notion of
compatibilisation. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yoran argues that objects are necessarily
integrated into a fabric of interconnected fourfolds as well as
component-compound relations. This structure solves the problem of
object identification, by recognizing the object-fourfolds as
overlaps, a mutually stabilizing structure which allows for
reproducible object confrontation in time, or facts. <br>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">‘The complexity of the ideas in this book are
challenging to the intellect, just as the argument itself
represents a worthy challenge to some well-regarded philosophical
positions. One of the most exciting things about this argument is
that it takes seriously the ways in which object-oriented
programming can inform object-oriented philosophy, and vice-versa,
demonstrating significant, practical connections between the two.
-<span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times
New Roman""> </span></span><i>Noah Roderick</i>,
author of <i>The Being of Analogy</i></p>
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The Interfact is published in our New Metaphysics series, which is
edited by Graham Harman and Bruno Latour: </p>
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href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/new-metaphysics/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/new-metaphysics/</a><br>
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Author Bio<br>
<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
Gabriel Yoran received his PhD on Speculative Realism at the
European Graduate School. Previously, he studied Social and
Economic Communications at the Berlin University of the Arts. He
is co-founder of several digital companies (Steady, Steganos,
aka-aki) and works at the intersection of computer science and
philosophy. He contributed “Applied Metaphysics – Objects in
Object-Oriented Ontology and Object-Oriented Programming” to the
Interface Critique Journal and “Interface kaputt – Cyborgism and
Object-Oriented Philosophy” to the volume <i>Interface Critique</i>,
published at Kadmos. For more information on his work see <a
href="https://yoran.com">yoran.com</a> </p>
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Institute for Creative Cultures, Coventry University:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures">http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
Latest:
Book (open access): A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/</a>
Journal article (open access): 'Pluriversal Socialism - The Very Idea': <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/126">http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/126</a>
Chapter (open access): ‘Postdigital Politics’, in Cornelia Sollfrank, Shuhsa Niederberger and Felix Stalder, eds, Aesthetics of the Commons:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419">https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419</a>
Video: 'Can We Unlearn Liberal Individualism: Gary Hall in Conversation with Carolina Rito About A Stubborn Fury: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CQiRCib_AU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CQiRCib_AU</a>
Podcasts: 'Writing Against Elitism with "A Stubborn Fury"': <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://anchor.fm/aposthumanities/episodes/S2E6-Gary-Hall-Writing-against-elitism-with-A-Stubborn-Fury-e166bip">https://anchor.fm/aposthumanities/episodes/S2E6-Gary-Hall-Writing-against-elitism-with-A-Stubborn-Fury-e166bip</a>
'The Uberfication of the University - with Gary Hall': <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://soundcloud.com/user-230862454/the-uberfication-of-the-university">https://soundcloud.com/user-230862454/the-uberfication-of-the-university</a>
Blog post: 'Combinatorial Books - Gathering Flowers', with Janneke Adema and Gabriela Méndez Cota: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/combinatorial-books-gathering-flowers-part-i/release/1">https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/combinatorial-books-gathering-flowers-part-i/release/1</a>
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