{"id":787,"date":"2014-10-14T15:12:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T14:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/?p=787"},"modified":"2014-11-25T15:22:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T15:22:26","slug":"if-materialism-is-not-the-solution-then-what-was-the-problem-a-response-to-harman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"If Materialism is not the Solution, then what was the problem?: A&nbsp;Response to Harman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10665785_382380295251563_5889392099909831464_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-788 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10665785_382380295251563_5889392099909831464_n-630x428.jpg\" alt=\"10665785_382380295251563_5889392099909831464_n\" width=\"630\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10665785_382380295251563_5889392099909831464_n-630x428.jpg 630w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10665785_382380295251563_5889392099909831464_n-298x203.jpg 298w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10665785_382380295251563_5889392099909831464_n-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10665785_382380295251563_5889392099909831464_n-700x475.jpg 700w, http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/10665785_382380295251563_5889392099909831464_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: What follows is a&nbsp;cursory response to Graham Harman\u2019s article \u201c<em>Materialism is Not the Solution<\/em>.\u201d It seeks to branch out his conception of \u2018form\u2019 and more specifically, \u2018aesthetic form\u2019 whilst expanding on Harman\u2019s principal objections to the materialist account of change, and how this may challenge the contemporary aesthetic trajectory of relational encounter: par- ticularly Bourriaud\u2019s Relational Aesthetics (2002). Quite generally, Harman\u2019s Object Oriented Ontology might be understood through two chief aesthetic mechanisms; the contingency of counterfactuals complimented with the preliminary development of a&nbsp;nonmodern formalism. The latter is briefly cashed out in a&nbsp;philosophical juxtaposition to Greenberg and Fried\u2019s mod- ernist principles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong>:&nbsp;<em>Formalism, Materialism, Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried, Graham Harman, Object Oriented Ontology, Relational Aesthetics, Speculative Realism<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Abstract: What follows is a&nbsp;cursory response to Graham Harman\u2019s article \u201cMaterialism is Not the Solution.\u201d It seeks to branch out his conception of \u2018form\u2019 and more specifically, \u2018aesthetic form\u2019 whilst expanding on Harman\u2019s principal objections to the materialist account of change, and how this may challenge the contemporary aesthetic&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"coauthors":[71],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal","post_format-post-format-image","column","twocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/insight.lancaster.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}