Object Oriented Ontology by Graham Harman

A New Theory of Everything

The book advances a speculative realist metaphysics that treats all entities—people, animals, artifacts, natural bodies—as autonomous objects that withdraw from full access and never exhaust their reality in appearances; relations between objects are indirect and mediated by sensual profiles or tools rather than immediate exposure of inner being. It challenges correlationism and reductionism, arguing that causation and interaction operate vicariously and that objects are equally real and irreducible across scales. The account aims to reframe debates in ontology, aesthetics, and science by proposing a flat, object-centered framework in which the richness of being persists beyond human apprehension.