Waves and Stones

A new exploration of our conception of reality, by one of the world’s most influential philosophersHow do we understand the world and our place in it? Do our lives consist of a small number of dra ...

A new exploration of our conception of reality, by one of the world’s most influential philosophersHow do we understand the world and our place in it? Do our lives consist of a small number of dramatic turning points, or is there nothing but a series of gradual changes from infancy to old age? Are there two fully discrete genders existing by nature, or numerous gradations between the male and female poles? And in physics, how can the continuities of general relativity coexist with the discontinuities of quantum theory?In Waves and Stones, Graham Harman shows that the paradoxical interaction be