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'An old teapot, used daily, can tell me more of my past than
anything I recorded of it.' Sylvia Townsend Warner There are many
ways of telling the story of a life and how we've got to where we
are. The questions of why and how we think the way we do continues
to preoccupy philosophers. In The Stuff of Life, Timothy Morton
chooses the objects that have shaped and punctuated their life to
tell the story of who they are and why they might think the way
they do. These objects are 'things' in the richest sense. They are
beings, non-human beings, that have a presence and a force of their
own. From the looming expanse of Battersea Power Station to a
packet of anti-depressants and a cowboy suit, Morton explores why
'stuff' matters and the life of these things have so powerfully
impinged upon their own. Their realization, through a concealer
stick, that they identify as non-binary reveals the strange and
wonderful ways that objects can form our worlds. Part memoir, part
philosophical exploration of the meaning of a life lived alongside
and through other things, Morton asks us to think about the stuff,
things, objects and buildings that have formed our realities and
who we are and might be.
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the
environmental movement. 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. Over the past 75
years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become
irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world
have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place
at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through
the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these
books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way
to a fairer, saner, greener world.
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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the
environmental movement - now in one complete set Over the past 75
years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living
planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the
world have raised their voices to defend it. Their words have
endured, becoming the classics that define the environmental
movement today. From art, literature, food and gardening, to
technology, economics, politics and ethics, each of these short
books deepens our sense of our place in nature; each is a seed from
which a bold activism can grow. Together, they show the richness of
environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner,
greener world.
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."
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Bjoerk (Paperback)
Bjork; Text written by Klaus Biesenbach, Alex Ross, Nicola Dibben, Timothy Morton, …
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We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist -
electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we
understand as 'reality'. But in fact, 'reality' varies with each
era of the world, in turn shaping the field of what is possible to
do, think and imagine. Our contemporary age has embraced a
troubling and painful form of reality: Technic. Under Technic, the
foundations of reality begin to crumble, shrinking the field of the
possible and freezing our lives in an anguished state of paralysis.
Technic and Magic shows that the way out of the present deadlock
lies much deeper than debates on politics or economics. By drawing
from an array of Northern and Southern sources - spanning from
Heidegger, Junger and Stirner's philosophies, through Pessoa's
poetry, to Advaita Vedanta, Bhartrhari, Ibn Arabi, Suhrawardi and
Mulla Sadra's theosophies - Magic is presented as an alternative
system of reality to Technic. While Technic attempts to capture the
world through an 'absolute language', Magic centres its
reconstruction of the world around the notion of the 'ineffable'
that lies at the heart of existence. Technic and Magic is an
original philosophical work, and a timely cultural intervention. It
disturbs our understanding of the structure of reality, while
restoring it in a new form. This is possibly the most radical act:
if we wish to change our world, first we have to change the idea of
'reality' that defines it.
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.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most widely studied works of English literature, and Frankenstein's creature is a key figure in the popular imagination. This Sourcebook examines Mary Shelley's novel within its literary and cultural contexts, bringing together material on: * the contexts from which Frankenstein emerged * the novel's early reception * adaptation and performance of the work (from theatre to pop music) * recent criticism. All documents are discussed and explained. The volume also includes offers carefully annotated key passages from the novel itself and concludes with a list of recommended editions and further reading, to allow readers to pursue their study in the areas that interest them most. This Routledge Literary Sourcebook provides an ideal orientation to the novel, its reception history and the critical material that surrounds it.
Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present
Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Moebius strip,
twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in
Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he
has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape
because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also
fundamental to the structure of how things are. The logistics of
agricultural society resulted in global warming and hardwired
dangerous ideas about life-forms into the human mind. Dark ecology
puts us in an uncanny position of radical self-knowledge,
illuminating our place in the biosphere and our belonging to a
species in a sense that is far less obvious than we like to think.
Morton explores the logical foundations of the ecological crisis,
which is suffused with the melancholy and negativity of coexistence
yet evolving, as we explore its loop form, into something playful,
anarchic, and comedic. His work is a skilled fusion of humanities
and scientific scholarship, incorporating the theories and findings
of philosophy, anthropology, literature, ecology, biology, and
physics. Morton hopes to reestablish our ties to nonhuman beings
and to help us rediscover the playfulness and joy that can brighten
the dark, strange loop we traverse.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most widely studied works of English literature, and Frankenstein's creature is a key figure in the popular imagination. This Sourcebook examines Mary Shelley's novel within its literary and cultural contexts, bringing together material on: * the contexts from which Frankenstein emerged * the novel's early reception * adaptation and performance of the work (from theatre to pop music) * recent criticism. All documents are discussed and explained. The volume also includes offers carefully annotated key passages from the novel itself and concludes with a list of recommended editions and further reading, to allow readers to pursue their study in the areas that interest them most. This Routledge Literary Sourcebook provides an ideal orientation to the novel, its reception history and the critical material that surrounds it.
'To read Being Ecological is to be caught up in a brilliant display
of intellectual pyrotechnics' P.D.Smith, Guardian Why is everything
we think we know about ecology wrong? Is there really any
difference between 'humans' and 'nature'? Does this mean we even
have a future? Don't care about ecology? This book is for you.
Timothy Morton, who has been called 'Our most popular guide to the
new epoch' (Guardian), sets out to show us that whether we know it
or not, we already have the capacity and the will to change the way
we understand the place of humans in the world, and our very
understanding of the term 'ecology'. A cross-disciplinarian who has
collaborated with everyone from Bjoerk to Hans Ulrich Obrist,
Morton is also a member of the object-oriented philosophy movement,
a group of forward-looking thinkers who are grappling with
modern-day notions of subjectivity and objectivity, while also
offering fascinating new understandings of Heidegger and Kant.
Calling the volume a book containing 'no ecological facts', Morton
confronts the 'information dump' fatigue of the digital age, and
offers an invigorated approach to creating a liveable future.
Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present
Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Mobius strip,
twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in
Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he
has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape
because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also
fundamental to the structure of how things are. The logistics of
agricultural society resulted in global warming and hardwired
dangerous ideas about life-forms into the human mind. Dark ecology
puts us in an uncanny position of radical self-knowledge,
illuminating our place in the biosphere and our belonging to a
species in a sense that is far less obvious than we like to think.
Morton explores the logical foundations of the ecological crisis,
which is suffused with the melancholy and negativity of coexistence
yet evolving, as we explore its loop form, into something playful,
anarchic, and comedic. His work is a skilled fusion of humanities
and scientific scholarship, incorporating the theories and findings
of philosophy, anthropology, literature, ecology, biology, and
physics. Morton hopes to reestablish our ties to nonhuman beings
and to help us rediscover the playfulness and joy that can brighten
the dark, strange loop we traverse.
Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the
possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental
emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought,
confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our
control but also our understanding. Global warming is perhaps the
most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls
"hyperobjects"--entities of such vast temporal and spatial
dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is
in the first place. In this book, Morton explains what hyperobjects
are and their impact on how we think, how we coexist with one
another and with nonhumans, and how we experience our politics,
ethics, and art.
Moving fluidly between philosophy, science, literature, visual
and conceptual art, and popular culture, the book argues that
hyperobjects show that the end of the world has already occurred in
the sense that concepts such as world, nature, and even environment
are no longer a meaningful horizon against which human events take
place. Instead of inhabiting a world, we find ourselves inside a
number of hyperobjects, such as climate, nuclear weapons,
evolution, or relativity. Such objects put unbearable strains on
our normal ways of reasoning.
Insisting that we have to reinvent how we think to even begin to
comprehend the world we now live in, "Hyperobjects" takes the first
steps, outlining a genuinely postmodern ecological approach to
thought and action.
What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology
challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic
and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever.
Acclaimed Object-Oriented philosopher Timothy Morton invites us to
consider this philosophical issue as eminently political. In our
relationship with non-humans, we decided the fate of our humanity.
Becoming human, claims Morton, actually means creating a network of
kindness and solidarity with non-human beings, in the name of a
broader understanding of reality that both includes and overcomes
the notion of species. Negotiating the politics of humanity is the
first and crucial step to reclaim the upper scales of ecological
coexistence, and not to let Monsanto and cryogenically suspended
billionaires define them and own them.
'An old teapot, used daily, can tell me more of my past than
anything I recorded of it.' Sylvia Townsend Warner There are many
ways of telling the story of a life and how we've got to where we
are. The questions of why and how we think the way we do continues
to preoccupy philosophers. In The Stuff of Life, Timothy Morton
chooses the objects that have shaped and punctuated their life to
tell the story of who they are and why they might think the way
they do. These objects are 'things' in the richest sense. They are
beings, non-human beings, that have a presence and a force of their
own. From the looming expanse of Battersea Power Station to a
packet of anti-depressants and a cowboy suit, Morton explores why
'stuff' matters and the life of these things have so powerfully
impinged upon their own. Their realization, through a concealer
stick, that they identify as non-binary reveals the strange and
wonderful ways that objects can form our worlds. Part memoir, part
philosophical exploration of the meaning of a life lived alongside
and through other things, Morton asks us to think about the stuff,
things, objects and buildings that have formed our realities and
who we are and might be.
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. Realizing this interconnectedness is what Morton calls the
ecological thought. In three concise chapters, Morton investigates
the profound philosophical, political, and aesthetic implications
of the fact that all life forms are interconnected. As a work of
environmental philosophy and theory, The Ecological Thought
explores an emerging awareness of ecological reality in an age of
global warming. Using Darwin and contemporary discoveries in life
sciences as root texts, Morton describes a mesh of deeply
interconnected life forms-intimate, strange, and lacking fixed
identity. A "prequel" to his Ecology without Nature: Rethinking
Environmental Aesthetics (Harvard, 2007), The Ecological Thought is
an engaged and accessible work that will challenge the thinking of
readers in disciplines ranging from critical theory to Romanticism
to cultural geography.
We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist -
electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we
understand as 'reality'. But in fact, 'reality' varies with each
era of the world, in turn shaping the field of what is possible to
do, think and imagine. Our contemporary age has embraced a
troubling and painful form of reality: Technic. Under Technic, the
foundations of reality begin to crumble, shrinking the field of the
possible and freezing our lives in an anguished state of paralysis.
Technic and Magic shows that the way out of the present deadlock
lies much deeper than debates on politics or economics. By drawing
from an array of Northern and Southern sources - spanning from
Heidegger, Junger and Stirner's philosophies, through Pessoa's
poetry, to Advaita Vedanta, Bhartrhari, Ibn Arabi, Suhrawardi and
Mulla Sadra's theosophies - Magic is presented as an alternative
system of reality to Technic. While Technic attempts to capture the
world through an 'absolute language', Magic centres its
reconstruction of the world around the notion of the 'ineffable'
that lies at the heart of existence. Technic and Magic is an
original philosophical work, and a timely cultural intervention. It
disturbs our understanding of the structure of reality, while
restoring it in a new form. This is possibly the most radical act:
if we wish to change our world, first we have to change the idea of
'reality' that defines it.
What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology
challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic
and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever.
Acclaimed Object-Oriented philosopher Timothy Morton invites us to
consider this philosophical issue as eminently political. In our
relationship with non-humans, we decided the fate of our humanity.
Becoming human, claims Morton, actually means creating a network of
kindness and solidarity with non-human beings, in the name of a
broader understanding of reality that both includes and overcomes
the notion of species. Negotiating the politics of humanity is the
first and crucial step to reclaim the upper scales of ecological
coexistence, and not to let Monsanto and cryogenically suspended
billionaires define them and own them.
This book borrows from the intellectual labor of queer theory in
order to unsettle-or "queer"-the discourses of "religion" and
"science," and, by extension, the "science and religion discourse."
Drawing intellectual and social cues from works by influential
theorists such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Eve Sedgwick,
chapters in this volume converge on at least three common features
of queer theory. First, queer theory challenges givens that on
occasion still undergird religiously and scientifically informed
ways of thinking. Second, it takes embodiment seriously. Third,
this engagement inevitably generates new pathways for thinking
about how religious and scientific "truths" matter. These three
features ultimately lend support to critical investigations into
the meanings of "science" and "religion," and the relationships
between the two.
In this volume of interdisciplinary essays, leading scholars
examine the radical tradition in British literary culture from the
English Revolution to the French Revolution. They chart
continuities between the two periods and examine the recuperation
of ideas and texts from the earlier period in the 1790s and beyond.
Contributors utilize a variety of approaches and concepts: from
gender studies, the cultural history of food and diet and the
history of political discourse, to explorations of the theatre,
philosophy and metaphysics. This volume argues that the radical
agendas of the mid-seventeenth century, intended to change society
fundamentally, did not disappear throughout the long eighteenth
century only to be resuscitated at its close. Rather, through close
textual analysis, these essays indicate a more continuous
transmission.
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