Graham Harman | Academic Influence

Why Is Graham Harman Influential?

Graham Harman is currently the Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Prior to his current position, Harman taught at the American University in Cairo from 2000-2016, and also held positions at the University of Amsterdam, University of Turin, Yale University, and the European Graduate School. Harman studies philosophy as an undergraduate at St. John’s College, earning his BA in 1990, before earning his MA at Pennsylvania State University, and his PhD at DePaul University, finishing his studies in 1999.

Harman is best known for his role in the current movement of speculative realism in philosophy, and object-oriented-ontology in particular. Harman’s approach is critical of and rejects what he identifies as the anthropocentrism of ontology, i.e. privileging the human experience over that of objects in human-object relations. Additionally, Harman supports a metaphysical realist approach toward rejecting the correlationist view of reality and experience. Essentially (and to simplify a very nuanced philosophical stance) Harman is interested in understanding the experience of objects in the world and developing an ontology of object existence without humans. All of this demands a radical revision of ontology as it has up to now been understood.

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According to Wikipedia, Graham Harman is an American philosopher. He is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. His work on the metaphysics of objects led to the development of object-oriented ontology. He is a central figure in the speculative realism trend in contemporary philosophy.

Graham Harman's Published Works

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Published Papers

Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects (2002) (478)
The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism (2011) (324)
The Quadruple Object (2011) (304)
Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics (2009) (285)
Guerrilla Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things (2005) (277)
Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures (2010) (166)
Heidegger Explained: From Phenomenon to Thing (2007) (137)
The Well-Wrought Broken Hammer: Object-Oriented Literary Criticism (2012) (111)
Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory (2016) (94)
The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE (2011) (88)
On vicarious causation (2013) (78)
Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making (2011) (74)
DeLanda’s ontology: assemblage and realism (2008) (66)
Technology, objects and things in Heidegger. (2010) (65)
The Importance of Bruno Latour for Philosophy (2011) (63)
Towards a Speculative Philosophy (2011) (56)
Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political (2014) (55)
I am Also of the Opinion That Materialism Must Be Destroyed (2010) (41)
Manifesto of New Realism (2014) (33)
The evaluation of losses in maize stored on a selection of small farms in Zambia with particular reference to the development of methodology (G109) (1977) (31)
Object-Oriented Ontology (2015) (29)
The Road to Objects (2011) (28)
The Rise of Realism (2017) (27)
Entanglement and Relation: A Response to Bruno Latour and Ian Hodder (2014) (26)
Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) (2019) (24)
The Speculative Turn: (2019) (23)
Time, Space, Essence, and Eidos: A New Theory of Causation (2010) (23)
Dwelling With the Fourfold (2009) (22)
On interface: Nancy's weights and masses (2013) (22)
The McLuhans and Metaphysics (2009) (20)
Bell and whistles : more speculative realism (2013) (20)
Alpha generation in portfolio management: Long-run Australian equity fund evidence (2016) (19)
Realism without Materialism (2011) (19)
On the Horror of Phenomenology: Lovecraft and Husserl (2019) (19)
Aesthetics as first philosophy: Levinas and the non-human (2012) (19)
A Questionnaire on Materialisms (2016) (18)
Agential and Speculative Realism: Remarks on Barad's Ontology (2016) (14)
Art and Objects (2019) (11)
Quentin Meillassoux: a new French philosopher (2007) (11)
Undermining, overmining, and duomining: a critique (2013) (11)
Some paradoxes of McLuhan's tetrad (2013) (11)
Meillassoux's Virtual Future (2011) (9)
Networks and Assemblages: the Rebirth of Things in Latour and DeLanda (2017) (8)
Asymmetrical Causation: Influence without Recompense (2010) (8)
The Only Exit From Modern Philosophy (2020) (8)
TRISTAN GARCIA AND THE THING-IN-ITSELF (2013) (8)
An Outline of Object-Oriented Philosophy (2013) (7)
The tetrad and phenomenology (2013) (7)
Global Equity Fund Performance: An Attribution Approach (2017) (6)
Conclusions: Assemblage Theory and Its Future (2014) (6)
Fear of Reality: On Realism and Infra-Realism (2015) (6)
Materialism is Not the Solution (2016) (5)
Editorial Introduction for the Topical Issue “Object-Oriented Ontology and Its Critics” (2019) (5)
Tool-being: Elements in a theory of objects (1999) (5)
Zeroing in on Evocative Objects (2008) (5)
Zero-person and the psyche (2013) (5)
Whitehead and Schools X, Y, and Z (2014) (5)
Demodernizing the Humanities with Latour (2016) (4)
The Coldness of Forgetting: OOO in Philosophy, Archaeology, and History (2019) (4)
Alpha Generation in Portfolio Management: Long-Run Australian Equity Fund Evidence (2012) (3)
A New Perspective on Performance Persistence: Evidence Using Portfolio Holdings (2018) (3)
3D Printing and Actor-Network Theory (2015) (3)
The Future of Continental Realism: Heidegger’s Fourfold (2016) (3)
Concerning Stephen Hawking’s Claim that Philosophy is Dead (2013) (3)
Some Preconditions of Universal Philosophical Dialogue (2005) (3)
The revenge of the surface: Heidegger, McLuhan, Greenberg (2013) (3)
A festival of anti-realism: Braver’s History of Continental Thought (2008) (3)
Object-Oriented France: The Philosophy of Tristan Garcia (2012) (3)
LEVINAS AND THE TRIPLE CRITIQUE OF HEIDEGGER (2009) (3)
The Battle of Objects and Subjects: Concerning Sbriglia and Žižek’s Subject Lessons Anthology (2020) (2)
THE PROBLEM WITH METZINGER (2011) (2)
Hyperobjects and prehistory (2018) (2)
Poe’s Black Cat (2019) (2)
Johnston's materialist critique of Meillassoux (2014) (2)
How much does tax erode fund excess returns? (2019) (2)
On the Horrors of Realism-- Interview with Graham Harman (2008) (2)
Stengers on emergence (2014) (2)
Decadence in the Biographical Sense: Taking a Distance from Actor-Network Theory (2016) (1)
Skirmishes : With Friends, Enemies, and Neutrals (2020) (1)
Ash and Garcia on bump stocks (2020) (1)
On the mesh, the strange stranger, and hyperobjects: Morton's ecological ontology (2013) (1)
Malabou’s Political Critique of Speculative Realism (2021) (1)
Art and OOObjecthood: Graham Harman in Conversation with Christoph Cox and Jenny Jaskey (2015) (1)
Interviews: Graham Harman, Jane Bennett, Tim Morton, Ian Bogost, Levi Bryant and Paul Ennis (2010) (1)
Editorial for the First Volume of Open Philosophy (2018) (1)
Global Equity Fund Performance: An Attribution Approach (2016) (1)
On Progressive and Degenerating Research Programs With Respect to Philosophy (2020) (1)
2. Politics and Law as Latourian Modes of Existence (2015) (1)
Plastic surgery for the 'Monadology': Leibniz via Heidegger (2011) (1)
Bruno Latour and the politics of nature (2013) (1)
13. Zero-person and the psyche (2009) (1)
Global finitude: A conversation with Graham Harman (2018) (1)
Editorial for the Topical Issue “Object-Oriented Ontology and Its Critics II” (2020) (1)
On the supposed societies of chemicals, atoms and stars in Gabriel Tarde (2012) (0)
Dialogue with Bruno Latour and Graham Hartman (2011) (0)
3D Printing in Dialogue With Four Thinkers (2019) (0)
The Beings of Being: On the Failure of Heidegger’s Ontico-Ontological Priority (2015) (0)
Symposium: Beyond Presence? (2019) (0)
Latour’s Interpretation of Donald Trump (2020) (0)
The Object Takes on a Life of its Own: A Conversation Between Thomas Feuerstein and Graham Harman (2015) (0)
Choosing, Using, and Troubleshooting Your Plezo Pressure Sensor (2005) (0)
The Object Turn: A Conversation (2015) (0)
Aesthetics and the tension in objects (2018) (0)
Concerning a Deleuzean Weird (2021) (0)
Aestheticizing the literal (2018) (0)
Book Review (2003) (0)
New APPS Interview: Graham Harman (2011) (0)
Weird realism: Een interview met Graham Harman (2013) (0)
Heidegger's fourfold, McLuhan's tetrad (2013) (0)
Missives from the Fortress of Uncertainty (2011) (0)
Editorial for the Topical Issue “Object-Oriented Ontology and Its Critics III” (2021) (0)
Artspace article on OOO in the artworld, from April 8 (2016) (0)
Other People and Their Ideas: Graham Harman (2014) (0)
Interview with professor Graham Harman (2020) (0)
Naive Idealism: A Response to Tim Hyde (2004) (0)
Response to Schumacher (2018) (0)
How much does tax erode fund alpha (2016) (0)
Object-oriented seduction: Baudrillard reconsidered (2016) (0)
Graham Harman : the third table = Der dritte Tisch (2012) (0)
Interview with Graham Harman (2011) (0)
CAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT THINKING BE APPLIED TO NEW OILFIELDS? A CASE STUDY OF THE EARLY STAGES OF THE ENFIELD AREA DEVELOPMENT IN AN ENVIRONMENTALLY AND SOCIALLY SENSITIVE AREA (2003) (0)
Marginalia on Radical Thinking: An Interview with Graham Harman (2012) (0)
Call to Action (2020) (0)
How Much Does Tax Erode Fund Excess Return? (2018) (0)
Realism with a Straight Face: A Response to Leonard Lawlor (2020) (0)
Global Equity Fund Performance: An Attribution Approach (2016) (0)
Aesthetics as cosmology (2014) (0)
Interview: Jonas Žakaitis talks with Graham Harman (2013) (0)
Editorial for the Second Volume of Open Philosophy (2019) (0)
Graham Harman (2020) (0)
Graham Harman (2020) (0)
Spiros Hadjijanos in conversation with Graham Harman (2014) (0)
5McLuhans and Metaphysics (2008) (0)
Global equity fund performance adjusted for equity and currency factors (2021) (0)
The Return of Beauty: Driving a Wedge Between Objects and Qualities (2019) (0)
Rock art and the aesthetics of hyperobjects (2021) (0)
Realism without Hobbes and Schmitt: Assessing the Latourian Option (2020) (0)
Concerning the COVID-19 Event (2020) (0)
Aesthetics and the Tension in Objects by Graham Harman (2018) (0)
Aesthetics and the Tension in Objects by Graham Harman (2018) (0)
Reader, Response, Theory: The Nineteenth-Century Fantastic as a Counter-Enlightenment Mode (2018) (0)
A New Perspective on Performance Persistence: Evidence Using Portfolio Holdings (2015) (0)
Response to Altamirano and Ivakhiv (2016) (0)
Žižek’s Parallax, or The Inherent Stupidity of All Philosophical Positions (2021) (0)
On behalf of form (2016) (0)
Chapter Six. Objects and Orientalism (2014) (0)
On Landscape Ontology: An Interview with Graham Harman (2012) (0)
Phenomena and infinity (2016) (0)
Working Paper Series How Much Does Tax Erode Fund Alpha ? (2016) (0)
A dialogue between Graham Harman and Tristan Garcia (2013) (0)
The Future of Continental Realism (2016) (0)
The market for dried fruit in the United Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany and France. (1990) (0)
Thanks to Reviewers (2012) (0)
American Objects vs. Austrian Objects (2010) (0)
Heidegger, McLuhan and Schumacher on Form and Its Aliens (2016) (0)
12. Badiou’s Relation to Heidegger in Theory of the Subject (2012) (0)
Thanks to Reviewers (2020) (0)
Response from a Quasi-Latourian (2020) (0)
Editorial for the Topical Issue “Imagination and Potentiality: The Quest for the Real” (2020) (0)
Global Equity Fund Performance Evaluation with Equity and Currency Style Factors (2016) (0)

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