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Tim and then Levi posted this schedule before I did. I wasn’t sure if it was ready for public consumption, but they posted it so it must be.

The Speculative Realism group only held two events, and one of the key members (Meillassoux) was only present for the first one. OOO is now on its third meeting, after the earlier get-togethers in Atlanta (pre-Morton, but with Steven Shaviro present as a friendly critic, and my father there too just for the fun of it) and Los Angeles (everyone).

The Third Object-Oriented Ontology Symposium,
The New School, September 14, 2011

9:45–10:00 Welcome/Introduction
McKenzie Wark

10:00–11:00 Graham Harman, “The Four Most Typical
Objections to OOO”
Aaron Pedinotti, “Occasions, Decisions, and the
Given: Some Remarks on the Technical
Underpinnings of the Harman–Shaviro Debate”
(Ken Wark, moderator)

11:00–11:30 Break

11:30–12:30 Steven Shaviro, “Panpsychism And/Or
Eliminativism”
McKenzie Wark, “P(OO): Praxis (object-oriented)”
(Katherine Behar, moderator)

12:30–2:30 Luncheon w/ Jane Bennett (hosted by Carin Kuoni)
Ken Wark and the Vera List Center for Art and
Politics

2:30–3:30 Shannon Mattern, “Everything is Infrastructure”
Levi Bryant, “Strange Substances: On the Nature
of Objects”
(Eugene Thacker, moderator)

3:30–4:00 Break

4:00–5:00 Tim Morton, “Objects, Aesthetics, Causality”
Mabel Wilson, “Object Lesson — A Pedagogy for
Teaching Architects”
(moderator TBA)

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6:00–8:00 Opening, And Another Thing exhibition,
Co-curated by Katherine Behar and Emmy
Mikelson
The James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center