This books ushers in a new way of talking about social phenomena. It develops an ontology of social objects on the basis of the claim that registration or inscription--the leaving of a trace to be called up later--is what is most fundamental to them. In doing so, it systematically organizes concepts[...]
The aim of this book is to shed light on the most philosophically interesting of contemporary objects: the mobile phone. The title, Where are you? An Ontology of the Cell Phone, is made up of the three key words of the text. First, 'Where are you?' is arguably the philosophical (and everyday) questi[...]
Introduction to New Realism provides an overview of the movement of contemporary thought named New Realism, by its creator and most celebrated practitioner, Maurizio Ferraris. Sharing significant concerns and features with Speculative Realism and Object Oriented Ontology, New Realism can be said[...]