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The Anthropocene crisis demands a reevaluation of the ontology and aesthetics of nonhuman objects. object-oriented ontology (OOO) offers a crucial framework that advocates for objects or “things” as central to rethinking human-nonhuman coexistence. This paper reinterprets the avant-garde concept of the objet, objects given to a subject, through the lens of OOO. The study reexamines Minimalist aesthetics and Michael Fried’s critique of it. Fried dismissed the objet as mere “objecthood” lacking aesthetic experience, a critique limited by its anthropocentric modernist framework. In contrast, Graham Harman reconstructs Fried's critique in OOO to address the question of reality. His realist stance explains the tense relationship between the objet and the viewer using the concept of “allure,” which accounts for objects as a reality independent of cognition. “Allure” provides a pathway to access the real through aesthetic contact between objects, representing a nonhuman relationality distinct from the traditional aesthetic concept of “absorption.” Ultimately, Harman’s OOO affirms a symmetrical positioning of objects and seeks to demonstrate their reality through the objet in Minimalist aesthetics. It demands further discussion on the “aesthetics of objects” or “aesthetics of things.”

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