Graham Harman, The Quadruple Object (Zero Books, 2011) pp. 53-54
4 Feb 2015
The thing as portrayed by the natural sciences
If we weigh and measure a thing, describe its physical properties, or note its objective position in space-time, these qualities hold good for the thing only insofar as it relates to us or to something else. In short, the thing as portrayed by the natural sciences is the thing made dependent on our knowledge, and not in its untamed, subterranean reality.
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