ecology without the present
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A presentation accompanying the talk “Ecology without the Present,” given at Harvard University, February 6, 2012, by Tim Morton.TRANSCRIPT
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Ecology without the Present
Tim Morton
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I learned a new word today. Atom bomb. It was like a white light in the sky. Like God taking a photograph.
Empire of the Sun (movie)
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Part 1: Melancholy Ecology
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Toxoplasma gondii
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Object-Oriented Ontology
reductionism, holism, anthropocentrism, biocentrism
Graham Harman, Levi Bryant, Ian Bogost
Melancholy Coexistence
Subjectivity Abnegation of abject
Kristeva
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The Time of Hyperobjects
Entities that are massively distributed in time and space
Global warming, biosphere, evolution, Earth
standing in the place of the death drive
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The RiftTime flows from objects
Essence
Appearance
I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition
Emerson, “Experience”
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The Rift
Appearance The past
“A precipitate of abandoned object cathexes”Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id
memoria
arche-writing
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The Rift
Essence the future
openness
withdrawal
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Fragility
Hamartia lame
halting
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The Riftchōrismos
Essence
Appearance
Death drive
RNA World
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Standing in the Place of the Death Drive
Seest thou, beside the wintry torrent's course, how the trees that yield to it save every twig, while the stiff-necked perish root and branch?
Sophocles, Antigone
If I could meet my maker, I would tell her just one thing: I wish that she had created me so that I could die.
Ramin Bahrani, Plastic Bag
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Part 2: A Horrible Gravity
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Hyperobjects
Black hole
Nuclear materials
Styrofoam
Biosphere
Solar System
Massively distributed in time and space
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Hyperobjects
Viscosity
Nonlocality
Temporal undulation
Phasing
Interobjectivity
Properties
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The Time of Hyperobjects
The End of the World
Hypocrisy
Weakness
Lameness
Age of Asymmetry
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Anthropocene
Nature, lifeworld, Weltanschauung, world-picture
Gesamkunstwerk, rendering, simulation, Romanticism
system, ecosystem, environment
The ecological thought
1790
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Anthropocene
“like God taking a photograph”
“I am become Death, shatterer of worlds”
The last god
Ontic givennessTrinity Test at 0.016 seconds
1945
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Doom
Judgment, law faculty of judging, final judgment after the end of the world
Opinion (deeming)
Fate, destiny, death
Justice, judge
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Ecology without the Present
Plutonium 239 24 100 years
The Three Timescales of Global Warming:
Horrifying 500 years (75%)
Terrifying 30 000 years (25%)
Petrifying 100 000 years (7%)
From objects flows what we call time
Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons
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Nowness vs. present
Form is the past
hypokeimenon
“the precipitate of abandoned object cathexes”
Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id
Geotrauma
From objects flows what we call time
Ecology without the Present
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Essence is the future
vs. substance–accidents model
Spacetime
Arrivant strange stranger
Il n’y a pas de hors-texte Derrida
The Rift
Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO)
Ecology without the Present
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Essence is the future
Il n’y a pas de hors-texte Derrida
The Rift
“The gigantic shadows that futurity casts upon the present”
Percy Shelleyecomimesis
From objects flows what we call time
Ecology without the Present
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Ecology without the Present
Butoh
What constitutes pretense is that, in the end, you don’t know whether it’s pretense or not Jacques Lacan
Prosōpon Greek, “face”
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