# Object-oriented Ontology | | In metaphysics, **Object-oriented Ontology** (OOO) is a 21st-century Heidegger-influenced school of thought that rejects the privileging of human existence over the existence of nonhuman objects. This is in contrast to post-Kantian philosophy's tendency to refuse "speak[ing] of the world without humans or humans without the world". Object-oriented ontology maintains that objects exist independently of human perception and are not ontologically exhausted by their relations with humans or other objects. For object-oriented ontologists, all relations, including those between nonhumans, distort their related objects in the same basic manner as human consciousness and exist on an equal ontological footing with one another. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Object-oriented ontology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_ontology) | [[Subject-object distinction|Object]]