What Is it Like to Be an object? The political problem of the object
Authors
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Luca Romano
Università degli studi di Bari
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7736-6101
Abstract
The possibility of understanding the other decisively relies on the possibility of being other, of becoming another. But can we, as human animals, understand what a bat feels, what a plant feels or, taking the argument to the extreme, understand what an object feels? Can we, human beings, begin to understand hyperobjects in the light of the impossibility of being another? This work looks to construct an analysis of the impossibility of the Deleuzian relationship of devenir-, and the relationship to hyperobjects.
Keywords:
animality, plants, objects, hyperobjects, becomingReferences
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