OOO is a form of realism developed by the Philosopher Graham Harman and it proposes that objects are independent agents which exist and function independent from human senses, cognitive faculties and interaction. Objects have “a live of their own”. They can interact with each other in the same finite manner as humans with objects. This is in contrast with human-centric idealistic ontologies, which states that objects as independent units of matter only exists through the structuring of human cognitive faculties. An idealistic perspective proposes that Human comprehension and interaction are necessaryconditions for the object to exist.
Graham Harman adresses kant’s human centreness. For Kant, the phenomenon is finite, meaning that we humans cannot understand objects on the level of the noumenon. This means that there are ristrictions to the level of interaction humans can have with objects. According to Harman, all interactions are finite, even those between inanimate objects without the involvement of humans. All relations are lacking in their interactions.