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duomining en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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: