Galen got a puppy, which seems to negate the fact that he bought a proper microphone. Anyway, Galen and Budd discuss chapter 2 of Graham Harman's Object Oriented Ontology: a New Theory of Everything. We discuss Harmon's objections to literalism in more detail, get confused by Kant, and learn the origin story of OOO.

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In this episode Budd and Galen take a closer read from Graham Harman's first chapter to the text Object Oriented Ontology: a New Theory of Everything. We discuss the why science and string theory cannot explain everything, the problems with overmining, undermining, and duomining, and the definition of 'object' for OOO. 

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In this episode Budd and Galen take a closer read from Graham Harman's introduction to the text Object Oriented Ontology: a New Theory of Everything. We discuss the state of post-truth America, the seven basic principles of OOO, and it's detractors. We also talk about OOO and Slavoj Zizek, Bjork, and Benedict Cumberbatch. 

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Meet Budd and Galen, two friends who started a philosophy book club. They are both bald.

In preparation for their close reading of Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything by Graham Harman, Budd and Galen discuss a video lecture Harman presented in to an art school in 2014. Watch the video (link below) and see if you agree with the Bald Philosophers. 

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Graham Harman: Objects and the Arts