Correlationism

Correlationism, as named by Quentin Meillassoux, describes the philosophical stance that we only ever have access to the relation between thought and being, never to being in itself. It critiques the Kantian legacy that restricts knowledge to phenomena as mediated by human cognition. Within contemporary theory, correlationism becomes a limit that speculative realism seeks to exceed by affirming a world independent of human access. For design and aesthetics, the concept unsettles anthropocentrism by questioning whether reality can be reduced to human-world correlation. Correlationism thus opens the field to ontologies where nonhuman entities exert their own reality beyond representation.

/ Gaia Radić

As part of the broader philosophical movement of speculative realism, OOO (Object-Oriented Ontology) directly challenges the long-established belief that reality is always determined solely through human perception. Instead, the father of OOO, philosopher Graham Harman, argues that all objects—human and non-human, natural and artificial—exist independently of our subjective conceptualizations. To understand the radical nature and […]

/ Robert Schäfer

It is exciting to read “Blue Skies”, the new novel by T.C.Boyle, and at the same time to dedicate oneself to the opulent work of Adrian McGregor. While Boyle’s protagonists in Florida and California are at the mercy of the manifold violent effects of climate change and the reader abandons all hope after reading, the […]

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