Timothy Morton

A Quake in Being: An Introduction to Hyperobjects Part I. What Are Hyperobjects? Viscosity Nonlocality Temporal Undulation Phasing Interobjectivity Part II. The Time of Hyperobjects The End of the World Hypocrisies The Age of Asymmetry.

Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World

Hyperobjects

Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Beginning After the End -- The First Thread -- The Second Thread -- The Third Thread -- Ending Before the Beginning -- Notes -- Index

For a Logic of Future Coexistence

Dark Ecology

Being Ecological

Things in common: an introduction -- Life -- Specters -- Subscendence -- Species -- Kindness

Solidarity with Non-Human People

Humankind

Provocative and playful, All Art is Ecological explores the strangeness of living in an age of mass extinction, and shows us that emotions and experience are the basis for a deep philosophical engagement with ecology.

All Art Is Ecological

Rita Shea Guffey Chair of English Timothy Morton

The author argues that all forms of life are interconnected and that no being, construct, or object can exist independently from the ecological entanglement, nor does "nature" exist as an entity separate from the uglier or more synthetic elements of life. Realizing this interconnectedness is what the author calls the ecological thought. He investigates the philosophical, political, and aesthetic implications of this interconnectedness.

The Ecological Thought

In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the "nature" they revere. The problem is a symptom of the ecological catastrophe in which we are living. Morton sets out a seeming paradox: to have a properly ecological view, we must relinquish the idea of nature once and for all. Ecology without Nature investigates our ecological assumptions in a way that is provocative and deeply engaging. Ranging widely in eighteenth-century through contemporary philosophy, culture, and history, he explores the value of art in imagining environmental projects for the future. Morton develops a fresh vocabulary for reading "environmentality" in artistic form as well as content, and traces the contexts of ecological constructs through the history of capitalism. From John Clare to John Cage, from Kierkegaard to Kristeva, from The Lord of the Rings to electronic life forms, Ecology without Nature widens our view of ecological criticism, and deepens our understanding of ecology itself. Instead of trying to use an idea of nature to heal what society has damaged, Morton sets out a radical new form of ecological criticism: "dark ecology."

Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics

Ecology Without Nature

Hipernesneler

Naomi Klein

Tim Flannery

Jared Diamond

Amitav Ghosh

Michael Pollan

James Lovelock

Bill McKibben

Arne Næss

Aldo Leopold

George Monbiot

Wendell Berry

Greta Thunberg

Masanobu Fukuoka

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Terry Tempest Williams

Rachel Carson

Wangari Maathai

Edward O Wilson

Dai Qing

Green Ideas Slipcase

"Object-oriented ontology offers a startlingly fresh way to think about causality that takes into account developments in physics since 1900. Causality, argues, Object Oriented Ontology (OOO), is aesthetic. In this book, Timothy Morton explores what it means to say that a thing has come into being, that it is persisting, and that it has ended. Drawing from examples in physics, biology, ecology, art, literature and music, Morton demonstrates the counterintuitive yet elegant explanatory power of OOO for thinking causality."--Publisher's description.

Objects, Ontology, Causality (New Metaphysics)

Realist Magic

İnsan Olmayanlarla Dayanışma

İnsan Türü

A book about ecology without information dumping, guilt inducing, or preaching to the choir. Don't care about ecology? You think you don't, but you might all the same. Don't read ecology books? This book is for you. Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that are out of date by the time they hit you. Slapping you upside the head to make you feel bad. Grabbing you by the lapels while yelling disturbing facts. Handwringing in agony about “What are we going to do?” This book has none of that. Being Ecological doesn't preach to the eco-choir. It's for you—even, Timothy Morton explains, if you're not in the choir, even if you have no idea what choirs are. You might already be ecological. After establishing the approach of the book (no facts allowed!), Morton draws on Kant and Heidegger to help us understand living in an age of mass extinction caused by global warming. He considers the object of ecological awareness and ecological thinking: the biosphere and its interconnections. He discusses what sorts of actions count as ecological—starting a revolution? going to the garden center to smell the plants? And finally, in “Not a Grand Tour of Ecological Thought,” he explores a variety of current styles of being ecological—a range of overlapping orientations rather than preformatted self-labeling. Caught up in the us-versus-them (or you-versus-everything else) urgency of ecological crisis, Morton suggests, it's easy to forget that you are a symbiotic being entangled with other symbiotic beings. Isn't that being ecological?

Si l'agent spécial Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks) prenait la plume, voici le livre qu'il pourrait écrire. Car, à l'image du personnage de David Lynch dont le rapport au monde est bouleversé, Timothy Morton propose une philosophie radicale et troublante. Le réchauffement climatique, phénomène irréversible dû à l'activité humaine, a déclenché la sixième extinction de masse. Le constat est simple : nous manquons d'outils conceptuels pour penser cette ère de l'Anthropocène. Et si nous nous affranchissions du concept de Nature ? Si, enfin, nous pensions grand (global plutôt que local) ? Et que dire du maillage, de l'interconnectivité de tout avec tout ? Avec intelligence et humour, Timothy Morton nous libère des discours bien-pensants : adieu écologie verte, économie circulaire et développement durable. Tous ces petits pas pour un monde plus « vert » servent trop souvent à soulager les consciences et verdir les programmes électoraux. Il nous faut changer profondément notre manière de penser, notre manière d'être au monde. De Charles Darwin à Emmanuel Levinas, de William Wordsworth à Percy Shelley, Timothy Morton illustre ses bases théoriques d'exemples aussi concrets que l'art contemporain ou le cinéma de science-fiction - à l'image de Blade Runner ou Solaris. Voici un texte radical qui change notre regard sur le monde, à la fois très accessible et totalement nouveau dans le champ de la philosophie contemporaine.

La pensée écologique

Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. On Earth, actual rockets explode over Texas while others make their way to Mars. But what are spacecraft, and just what can they teach us about imagination, ecology, democracy, and the nature of objects? Why do certain spacecraft stand out in popular culture? If ever there were a spacecraft that could be detached from its context, sold as toys, turned into Disney rides, parodied, and flit around in everyone's head-the Millennium Falcon would be it. Springing from this infamous Star Wars vehicle, Spacecraft takes readers on an intergalactic journey through science fiction and speculative philosophy, revealing real-world political and ecological lessons along the way. In this book Timothy Morton shows how spacecraft are never mere flights of fancy.

Spacecraft

Ecology without Nature

In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No being, construct, or object can exist independently from the ecological entanglement, Morton contends, nor does “Nature” exist as an entity separate from the uglier or more synthetic elements of life.

Eine neue Sicht der Umwelt

Ökologie ohne Natur

Trotz aller Panik leben wir in der bequemen Illusion, dass Erderwärmung und Massenaussterben erst noch bevorstehen. Deshalb erheben wir Daten und produzieren Fakten, als könnten wir damit die Welt retten. Handlungsfähig, so glauben wir, sind wir erst, wenn wir genug wissen. Wir sehnen uns nach dem Blick von oben, der uns das Gefühl gibt, über den Dingen zu stehen. Doch um uns ökologisch zu verhalten, brauchen wir nicht noch mehr über Ökologie zu lernen. Wir sind ökologisch, indem wir atmen, Felder bestellen, Tiere und Pflanzen essen und in Seen baden. Erst wenn unser Denken die Vogelperspektive aufgibt, in der wir selbst der blinde Fleck sind, werden wir auch verstehen können, dass wir unauflöslich mit unserer nichtmenschlichen Umwelt verquickt sind. Wir können vielleicht nicht wissen, wie die Biosphäre funktioniert, aber wir können uns auf sie einstimmen. Als Individuen werden wir in tausend Jahren nichtig sein. Was wir getan haben, wird es nicht sein. "Das Problem mit dem ökologischen Bewusstsein besteht nicht darin, dass es so schrecklich schwierig ist. Es ist so einfach. Du atmest Luft, dein bakterielles Mikrobiom murmelt vor sich hin, die Evolution entfaltet sich schweigend im Hintergrund. Du hast dieses Buch ausgelesen und schaust dich um. Du brauchst nicht ökologisch zu werden. Denn du bist ökologisch." - Timothy Morton, Ökologisch sein "Morton ist der Philosophenprophet unserer Zeit. Seine Ideen mögen bizarr klingen, aber sie sind die adäquate Antwort auf die erschütternde Einsicht, der wir uns im 21. Jahrhundert stellen müssen: dass wir in eine neue erdgeschichtliche Phase unseres Planeten eingetreten sind." - The Guardian

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