reading tonight

Joseph Carew’s very fine manuscript on the “ontological catastrophe” in Žižek, which will be published soon by Open Humanities Press.

three OOO-related articles in the current issue of The Minnesota Review

Unfortunately, The Minnesota Review hides behind a gouging payment firewall.

But I’ve received some reliable if scratchy reports:

*Andrew Cole, “The Call of Things: A Critique of Object-Oriented Ontologies”

*Bruce Holsinger, “Object-Oriented Mythography”

*D. Vance Smith, “Death and Texts: Finitude Before Form”

There may be others. These are simply the ones that were cherry-picked for me by messengers who have access to the journal through their libraries.

The titles of the first two obviously suggest critique. The first page of Smith’s looks more positive, though I haven’t seen the rest.

an interesting anthology

I’m saying no to most anthology offers these days, but did agree to contribute to Lee Braver’s Division III of Being and Time: Heidegger’s Unanswered Question of Being at MIT Press.

It should be a great read. As Braver puts it, “The idea is to survey a number of today’s most eminent Heidegger scholars and philosophers influenced by Heidegger for their answers to one of the most tantalizing questions of Heidegger scholarship, indeed of Twentieth Century continental philosophy: what would the third division of Being and Time have said and why didn’t Heidegger ever publish it?”

Submissions aren’t due for nearly another year, but this collection will be really interesting when it finally comes out.