When Klaus Krippendorff wrote:
>csikszentmihalyi looks at how
>people interpret things, not how species of artifacts interact, which is the
>subject of an ecology of artifacts
>
it reminded me that one of the most intriguing recent
attempts to think through a comprehensive philosophy
from the starting point of an ecology of artifacts - things
relating to things - is Graham Harman's
Guerrilla Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things (2005)
which is a follow-up to his productively reductive
polemic about Heidegger
Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects (2002)
Harman is apparently at the moment completing a book
about Latour.
Cameron
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