{"id":3353,"date":"2013-05-05T18:59:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T22:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2013-05-05T18:59:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T22:59:55","slug":"4-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/blog\/2013\/05\/05\/4-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"4 methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to clean out my email inbox. fun.<\/p>\n<p>but 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&#8217;d made on a talk by Graham Harman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and I&#8217;d transcribed \u00a0Harman&#8217;s &#8220;four methods for reversing common errors in failing to see objects,&#8221;\u00a0and it&#8217;s worth highlighting here, albeit sloppily &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>A way to test things:<\/p>\n<p>A. Counter-factualize: New context, absurd transposition<\/p>\n<p>B. Hyperbolize: If one were king of the universe, where would I need help?<\/p>\n<p>C. Pseudo Objectify: Can you use it as a model, emulate or parody it? Style or front *is* the whole; forget about its pieces<\/p>\n<p>D. Falsification: Can you disassemble the object, &#8220;reduce it to a set?&#8221; remove the parts from ay unifying whole. Falsify or trouble \u00a0the whole, accidents do this well<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/k-punk.abstractdynamics.org\/archives\/011434.html\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not seeing enough evidence of people allowing their political positions to be falsified.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to clean out my email inbox. fun. but i came across a note from Greg Borenstein, about a blog post he&#8217;d made on a talk by Graham Harman and I&#8217;d transcribed \u00a0Harman&#8217;s &#8220;four methods for reversing common errors in failing to see objects,&#8221;\u00a0and it&#8217;s worth highlighting here, albeit sloppily &#8211; A way &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/blog\/2013\/05\/05\/4-methods\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;4 methods&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3354,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}