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duomining

duomining noun: the combination of undermining and overmining, in object-oriented ontology.

Noun

duomining (uncountable)

  1. The combination of undermining and overmining, in object-oriented ontology.
    • OOO's way of addressing the issue is with the impossibility of exhausting any object through undermining, overmining, or their simultaneous employment in duomining.2020, Graham Harman, Skirmishes: With Friends, Enemies, and Neutrals, page 212
    • We can even go further: when we consider an object in everyday life we do not usually just undermine or overmine it as if it demanded an either/or approach, but rather we run the two processes in tandem: duomining, as Harman labels it.2022, Nicholas Gayle, Conrad and the Being of the World, page 25

Origin of duomining

From duo- + mining. Coined by American philosopher Graham Harman.

Questions about duomining

What does duomining mean?
Duomining means the combination of undermining and overmining, in object-oriented ontology.
What part of speech is duomining?
Duomining is a noun.

Words near duomining in the dictionary

  1. duologue
  2. duologues
  3. duology
  4. Duolu
  5. duomi
  6. duomining
  7. duomo
  8. duomos
  9. Duong
  10. Duongs
  11. duoperone

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