The fact that my post on faking your way through Hegel got so many hits (blog record, since the beginning of the blog in 2007, old “controversial” posts on OOO never came close) is making me sad and proud at the same time. You, kids, are truly faking it to the next level…
Perverse Egalitarianism
an otherwise excellent blog
Links to the old controversies with OOO would be nice. I seem to have missed all the drama.
It’s not really worth your time – what PE experienced on a small scale is now being played out on a large scale with real scholars and so on. You get even better drama because now the critics cannot be simply dismissed as “trolls”. Plus, objectologists are great at cleaning up their own messes and most of the controversial posts are already deleted on the respective blogs.
Too bad, even the large scale drama seems very well hidden though. Can you direct me towards proper critique?
PE?
Wait, I’m not a troll? They had me so convinced! I was about to go live under a bridge.
This whole fakery exchange is just short of sublime. Except that I needed it about thirty years ago at that Notre Dame of fakery, UC Berkeley. We metaphysical wannabes eagerly await your addendum, Faking Your Way through Heidegger. Or is there something redundant there?
I meant the Parisian cathedral, of course, not the South Bend outfit.
I am so beside myself with joy that this otherwise excellent blog has returned that I may need to perform an autosublation. But I must now ask the obvious question: How do I fake being an objectologist?
Easy – put together a short piece of 2000-3000 words about objects, come up with a cool pseudonym, submit it for publication here: if it is accepted and published, you are an objectologist!
If that gets me a better job, I am sorely tempted.
But hey, I’m now named a “speculative realist” and I only had to hang out with them. By that logic, are we all Hegelians now?
We will have always been Hegelians…