{"58963":{"#nid":"58963","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Object-Oriented Ontology Symposium","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBringing some of its foundational figures together for the first time, the inaugural Object-Oriented Ontology Symposium marks an effort to brew a new flavor of post-continental philosophy for the twenty-first century. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Friday, April 23rd Symposium 8:30am-5:30pm is free and open to all.  Seating is limited.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOntology is the philosophical study of existence. Object-oriented ontology (\u0022OOO\u0022 for short) puts things at the center of this study. Its proponents contend that nothing has special status, but that everything exists equally\u0022\u0022plumbers, cotton, bonobos, DVD players, and sandstone, for example. In contemporary thought, things are usually taken either as the aggregation of ever smaller bits (scientific naturalism) or as constructions of human behavior and society (social relativism). OOO steers a path between the two, drawing attention to things at all scales (from atoms to alpacas, bits to blinis), and pondering their nature and relations with one another as much with ourselves. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESPEAKERS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIan Bogost                                          Hugh Crawford\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nLevi Bryant\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nGrant Harman\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSteven Shaviro\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERESPONDENTS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHugh Crawford\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCarl DiSalvo\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nJohn Johnston\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBarbara Stafford\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nEugene Thacker\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EContact Ian Bogost with any questions: \u003Ca href=\u0027mailto:ibogost@gatech.edu\u0027\u003Eibogost@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Bringing some of its foundational figures together for the first time, the inaugural Object-Oriented Ontology Symposium marks an effort to brew a new flavor of post-continental philosophy for the twenty-first century. \n\nThe Friday, April 23rd Symposium 8:30am-5:30pm is free and open to all.  Seating is limited.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A first-time gathering of foundational figures in OOO"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2010-04-19 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:55","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-04-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"58964":{"id":"58964","type":"image","title":"...","body":null,"created":"1449176204","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:44","changed":"1475894517","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:57","alt":"...","file":{"fid":"190789","name":"tfy87367.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tfy87367_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tfy87367_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":30772,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tfy87367_0.jpg?itok=20M3uHvB"}}},"media_ids":["58964"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ooo.gatech.edu\/","title":"Object-Oriented Ontology"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"315","name":"bogost"},{"id":"121","name":"DiSalvo"},{"id":"9944","name":"object-oriented ontology"},{"id":"9173","name":"ontology"},{"id":"2759","name":"philosophy"},{"id":"171003","name":"Stafford"},{"id":"9946","name":"Thacker"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Keane\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=rkeane3\u0022\u003EContact Rebecca Keane\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}