Levi Bryant, The Democracy of Objects

The book is now listed on OHP’s website, HERE.

Levi discusses the book HERE. Actually, he discusses more than the book: he discusses all the things that are right about the OHP project as a whole. As he notes, he is the author of the first book in the series and possibly of the entire press (I’ve lost track of whether one of the other series at OHP has beaten us to the punch; maybe, maybe not). The University of Michigan library is the homeland of the OHP books, so we’re in contact quite a bit with Ann Arbor, which also happens to be the home of our good friend Joseph Goodson.

As the series co-editor of the New Metaphysics series in which this book will appear, I’ve read the entire thing 3 or 4 times. The whole book is very stimulating, but I tend to agree with the majority of readers so far that Chapter 4, in which NIKLAS LUHMANN is the major referent, is especially striking.

And as usual, Levi’s as good as anyone at explaining Lacan. I hope he’ll do a whole book on Lacan someday, in fact, but I think he has other offers from various presses at the moment.