Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World [Posthumanities]

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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816689237
ISBN-13
9780816689231
eBay Product ID (ePID)
167688355

Product Key Features

Book Title
Hyperobjects : Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Conservation & Protection, General, Criticism
Publication Year
2013
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Philosophy
Author
Timothy Morton
Book Series
Posthumanities Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.8 in
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
7.1 in

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LCCN
2013-028374
Reviews
"In Hyperobjects , Timothy Morton brings to bear his deep knowledge of a wide array of subjects to propose a new way of looking at our situation, which might allow us to take action toward the future health of the biosphere. Crucially, the relations between Buddhism and science, nature and culture, are examined in the fusion of a single vision. The result is a great work of cognitive mapping, both exciting and useful."--Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Shaman , 2312 , and the Mars trilogy, In Hyperobjects , Timothy Morton brings to bear his deep knowledge of a wide array of subjects to propose a new way of looking at our situation, which might allow us to take action toward the future health of the biosphere. Crucially, the relations between Buddhism and science, nature and culture, are examined in the fusion of a single vision. The result is a great work of cognitive mapping, both exciting and useful. --Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Shaman , 2312 , and the Mars trilogy, "Not only does Morton range from William Wordsworth to the Velvet Underground to Nagasaki to Republican denialism, he does it in a way that marshals these disparate allusions in the service of a cogent idea, one that manages to come off as both intuitive and radical."-- Newsweek "[This book] is bold, stimulating, and provocative. With extraordinary verve and audacity, Morton makes his hyperobjects into harbingers for a new epoch, on a planetary scale, a task in which he is assisted by the general consensus about the Anthropocene, the current era of human-induced planetary change."-- Los Angeles Review of Books "Whatever your hopes or fears for the next major era in human history, Morton is telling us that it has already happened and it is us."-- 3 Quarks Daily "A relentless torrent of commentary that presents challenges to most contemporary scholarship on both sides of the still upheld nature/culture divide."-- Qui Parle "Morton's work bridges a gap between academia and the global warming movement with a postmodern angle."-- Vogue "Morton is unafraid to mix theory with personal and often confessional material, anchoring his arguments to his own experience of the world."-- A Year's Work in Critical Culture and Theory, "In Hyperobjects , Timothy Morton brings to bear his deep knowledge of a wide array of subjects to propose a new way of looking at our situation, which might allow us to take action toward the future health of the biosphere. Crucially, the relations between Buddhism and science, nature and culture, are examined in the fusion of a single vision. The result is a great work of cognitive mapping, both exciting and useful. " -Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Shaman , 2312 , and the Mars trilogy, "In Hyperobjects , Timothy Morton brings to bear his deep knowledge of a wide array of subjects to propose a new way of looking at our situation, which might allow us to take action toward the future health of the biosphere. Crucially, the relations between Buddhism and science, nature and culture, are examined in the fusion of a single vision. The result is a great work of cognitive mapping, both exciting and useful."--Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Shaman , 2312 , and the Mars trilogy "Not only does Morton range from William Wordsworth to the Velvet Underground to Nagasaki to Republican denialism, he does it in a way that marshals these disparate allusions in the service of a cogent idea, one that manages to come off as both intuitive and radical."-- Newsweek "[This book] is bold, stimulating, and provocative. With extraordinary verve and audacity, Morton makes his hyperobjects into harbingers for a new epoch, on a planetary scale, a task in which he is assisted by the general consensus about the Anthropocene, the current era of human-induced planetary change."-- Los Angeles Review of Books "Whatever your hopes or fears for the next major era in human history, Morton is telling us that it has already happened and it is us."-- 3 Quarks Daily "A relentless torrent of commentary that presents challenges to most contemporary scholarship on both sides of the still upheld nature/culture divide."-- Qui Parle "Morton's work bridges a gap between academia and the global warming movement with a postmodern angle."-- Vogue "Morton is unafraid to mix theory with personal and often confessional material, anchoring his arguments to his own experience of the world. "-- A Year's Work in Critical Culture and Theory "Timothy Morton's Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World is a queasily vertiginous quest to synthesize the still divergent fields of quantum theory (the weirdness of small objects) and relativity (the weirdness of big objects) and insert them into philosophy and art."-- Society Space, "In Hyperobjects , Timothy Morton brings to bear his deep knowledge of a wide array of subjects to propose a new way of looking at our situation, which might allow us to take action toward the future health of the biosphere. Crucially, the relations between Buddhism and science, nature and culture, are examined in the fusion of a single vision. The result is a great work of cognitive mapping, both exciting and useful. " --Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Shaman , 2312 , and the Mars trilogy
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
577.01
Table Of Content
Contents Acknowledgments A Quake in Being: An Introduction to Hyperobjects Part I. What Are Hyperobjects?ViscosityNonlocalityTemporal UndulationPhasingInterobjectivity Part II. The Time of HyperobjectsThe End of the WorldHypocrisiesThe Age of Asymmetry NotesIndex
Synopsis
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. Morton explains what hyperobjects are and their impact on how we think, how we coexist, and how we experience our politics, ethics, and art., 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
QH540.5

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