Towards Speculative Realism Quotes

“What really lies beneath our feet at each moment is not a usefulness, but an inaccessible netherworld that we can use because it is there. It is the Empire of the Capital X.”
― Graham Harman, Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures

“To create something does not mean to see through to its depths; we do not drain our children to the dregs by begetting them, but set them loose in the world like wild dogs, beyond our control and often beyond our knowledge.”
― Graham Harman, Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures

“To treat an object primarily as part of a network is to assume it can be reduced to that set of qualities and relations that it manifests in this particular network.”
― Graham Harman, Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures