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Ep. 384: Graham Harman's Object-Oriented...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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We consider chapter 2, "Aesthetics Is the Root of All Philosophy," where Harman describes how art can help us see behind the veil to things-in-themselves. Art is "theatrical" in that it's really the spectator who is standing in like an actor for the object encountered in art.

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