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137 notes 1. alien phenomenology 1. See http://cryptome.org/eyeball/kumsc-eyeball/kumsc-eyeball.htm. 2. Berlitz and Moore, Roswell Incident. 3. They now have their own array, the Allen Telescope Array, or ATA, named for benefactor and Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen. I find it almost impossible not to misread “Alien Telescope Array.” 4. The last eruption is estimated at 52,000–68,000 years ago. See http:// www.nps.gov/cavo/geology.htm. 5. See http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/ archives/sts-3.html. 6. Meillassoux, After Finitude, 5. 7. Ibid., 13. 8. Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, 1–12, 104–7. 9. In fact, Brassier and Meillassoux have since abandoned the term. 10. This sort of event bears some similarity to Alain Badiou’s unusual understanding of that term, as a rupture in the state of things, to which one remains faithful. Yet speculative realism is also an event in the ordinary sense of the word, a gathering that took place, that people attended, that appeared on calendars, on flyers, and in email inboxes. 11. Harman, Tool-Being, 49. 12. Heidegger, Being and Time, 344. 13. Harman, Guerrilla Metaphysics, 26, 49. 14. Thanks to Tim Morton for this pronunciation, which is far more sonorous than the inquisitive “oooh.” 15. This description is derived from the one I wrote for the first Object Oriented Ontology symposium, which was held April 23, 2010, at the Georgia Institute of Technology. See http://ooo.gatech.edu for descriptions and audio proceedings. 16. Harman, “Realism without Materialism.” See also Harman’s com- [138] Notes ments in a thread on Levi Bryant’s blog, http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/ 2009/05/16/realism-through-the-eyes-of-anti-realism/. Braver’s account can be found in Thing of This World, xix, 14–23. 17. The fact that there are some Whiteheadian quantum physicists who hold that actual occasions are akin to subatomic particles offers one example of why this is a problem for OOO. See, for example, Eastman and Keeton, Physics and Whitehead, 47–54. 18. Latour, Pasteurization of France, 206. 19. Foreman, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior, 2–3. 20. Latour, Politics of Nature, 20. 21. Weisman, World without Us. 22. Nash and Broglio, “Introduction to the Special Issue,” 3. 23. http://twitter.com/shaviro/status/4038354360. 24. Pollan, Botany of Desire. 25. Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas, 220, 234. 26. Griffin, Unsnarling the World Knot, 78. 27. Morton, Ecological Thought, 28. 28. Ibid. 29. Harman, Guerrilla Metaphysics, 91–93. 30. Harman, “On Vicarious Causation,” 202. 31. DeLanda, Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy, 152–53, 216. 32. Bryant, Democracy of Objects, 33. 33. Ibid. 34. Bogost, Unit Operations, 6. 35. Snow, Two Cultures, 180–81. 36. Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” 433–60. 37. Ibid., 433. 38. Searle, “Minds, Brains, and Programs,” 417–56. 39. Hodges, Alan Turing, quoted in Hayles, How We Became Posthuman , xii. 40. Ibid., 423–24. 41. Bryant, Democracy of Objects, 44. 42. Ibid., 26, 33. 43. Latour, Reassembling the Social, 46. 44. Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, 2. 45. Law, “Making a Mess with Method.” 46. Ibid., 11. 47. Popławski, “Radial Motion into an Einstein–Rosen Bridge,” 110–13. Popławski’s work responds to Lee Smolin’s theoretical suggestion that each black hole contains an entire universe. 48. Harman, Guerrilla Metaphysics, 95. [18.234.232.228] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 01:47 GMT) Notes [139] 49. Bryant, Democracy of Objects, 215. 50. Morton, Realist Magic. 51. Bogost, Unit Operations, 5. 52. Indeed, Latour makes this comparison more explicit in his essay “From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik—or How to Make Things Public.” Says Latour: “A few years ago, computer scientists invented the marvelous expression of ‘object-oriented’ software to describe a new way to program their computers. We wish to use this metaphor to ask the question, ‘What would an object-oriented democracy look like?’” The piece was originally written as an introduction to the exhibition catalog Making Things Public— Atmospheres of Democracy, which was coedited by Latour and Peter Weibel and published by MIT Press in 2005. That book is out of print, and the essay can now be found either in Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins’s anthology The Object Reader (Routledge, 2009) or online at http://www.bruno-latour. fr/articles/article/96-DINGPOLITIK2.html. The above citation can be found in the former book on page 154. 53. Harman, Guerrilla Metaphysics, 90. 54. Brown, “Thing Theory,” 1. 55...