{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"RENATURED","provider_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog","author_name":"Marina","author_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/blog\/author\/admin\/","title":"4 methods","html":"I am trying to clean out my email inbox. fun.\r\n\r\nbut i came across a note from Greg Borenstein, <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanhonking.com\/ideasfordozens\/2012\/04\/17\/object-oriented-sci-fi-harmans-four-methods\/\" target=\"_blank\">about a blog post he'd made on a talk by Graham Harman<\/a>\r\n\r\nand I'd transcribed \u00a0Harman's \"four methods for reversing common errors in failing to see objects,\"\u00a0and it's worth highlighting here, albeit sloppily -\r\n\r\nA way to test things:\r\n\r\nA. Counter-factualize: New context, absurd transposition\r\n\r\nB. Hyperbolize: If one were king of the universe, where would I need help?\r\n\r\nC. Pseudo Objectify: Can you use it as a model, emulate or parody it? Style or front *is* the whole; forget about its pieces\r\n\r\nD. Falsification: Can you disassemble the object, \"reduce it to a set?\" remove the parts from ay unifying whole. Falsify or trouble \u00a0the whole, accidents do this well\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/k-punk.abstractdynamics.org\/archives\/011434.html\">\"I'm not seeing enough evidence of people allowing their political positions to be falsified.\"<\/a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","type":"rich"}