Timothy Morton is a leading thinker whose work engages with the complex relationship between humanity and ecology in the contemporary world. His writing, often provocative and deeply philosophical, explores concepts such as hyperobjects and dark ecology to reframe our present existence. Morton's analysis challenges us to consider our place within the ecosystem and to find new ways of coexisting with the world around us. His innovative approach to ecological crisis offers readers fresh perspectives and prompts for deeper reflection.
Focusing on ecology, this guide offers a refreshing perspective that avoids overwhelming readers with information or inducing guilt. It aims to engage a broad audience without preaching to those already aware of environmental issues. The new edition presents accessible insights into ecological challenges, making it a valuable resource for anyone looking to understand and engage with environmental topics meaningfully.
The book presents a transformative vision that combines elements of Christianity and biology to address the urgent crisis of global warming. It advocates for a radical shift in perspective, aiming to transcend destructive societal norms and envision a future that fosters ecological harmony and inclusivity. Through this unique approach, the author seeks to inspire a spiritual awakening that challenges prevailing ideologies and promotes a more sustainable and equitable world.
The narrative revolves around the profound connection between a seemingly ordinary old teapot and the memories it evokes. Through its daily use, the teapot serves as a vessel for nostalgia, revealing more about the narrator's past than any written record. This exploration highlights themes of memory, the significance of everyday objects, and the stories they carry, inviting readers to reflect on their own experiences and the tangible links to their history.
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.
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.
The time of hypersubjects is ending. Their desert-apocalypse-fire-and-death
cults aren't going to save them this time. Meanwhile the time of hyposubjects
is just beginning. This text is an exercise in chaotic and flimsy thinking
that will possibly waste your time. But it is the sincere effort of two
reform-minded hypersubjects to decenter themselves and to help nurture
hyposubjective humanity. Here are some of the things we say in this book: 1)
Hyposubjects are the native species of the Anthropocene and are only just now
beginning to discover what they might be and become. 2) Like their
hyperobjective environment, hyposubjects are also multiphasic and plural: not-
yet, neither here nor there, less than the sum of their parts. They are, in
other words, subscendent (moving toward relations) rather than transcendent
(rising above relations). They do not pursue or pretend to absolute knowledge
or language, let alone power. Instead they play; they care; they adapt; they
hurt; they laugh. 3) Hyposubjects are necessarily feminist, colorful, queer,
ecological, transhuman, and intrahuman. They do not recognize the rule of
androleukoheteropetromodernity and the apex species behavior it epitomizes and
reinforces. But they also hold the bliss-horror of extinction fantasies at
bay, because hyposubjects' befores, nows, and afters are many. 4) Hyposubjects
are squatters and bricoleuses. They inhabit the cracks and hollows. They turn
things inside out and work miracles with scraps and remains. They unplug from
carbon gridlife; they hack and redistribute its stored energies for their own
purposes. 5) Hyposubjects make revolutions where technomodern radars can't
glimpse them. They patiently ignore expert advice that they do not or cannot
exist. They are skeptical of efforts to summarize them, including everything
we have just said.
'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 Björk 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.
Morton commands readers' attention with his free-form style.... (Dark Ecology)
extends his previous work to offer a seismically different vision of the
future of ecology and humankind. Publishers Weekly
