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Hyperobjects 2.0:

Oil Remix

Timothy Morton

diatoms, forms of plankton that gave rise to oil


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The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;

It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed

Gerard Manley Hopkins

By coming to terms with an increasing range

of objects, human beings do not become

nihilistic princes of darkness, but actually themost sincere creatures the earth has ever

seen

Graham Harman, Guerilla Metaphysics, 247


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NOAA

1. Dancing aboutArchitecture


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Object-Oriented Ontology

(OOO)

realism(panpsychism)

withdrawal

real objects sensual objects

(AI and anti-AI theory)


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Object-Oriented Ontology

(OOO)

Malkovichism


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2. Grey Goo


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Martin Heidegger, Bestand


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Edward Burtynsky, Manufactured Landscapes

dir. Jennifer Baichwal (2006)


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3. The End of the World

My Bloody Valentine, Only Shallow

Loveless (Creation, 1992)


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miasma


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message

contact

context

code

addresser addressee

Roman Jakobson

phatic statements


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Aristotle

Suppose, for instance, that in the season of the

Cynosure [the Dog Days of summer] arctic cold

were to prevail, this we would regard as anaccident, whereas, if there were a sweltering

heatwave, we would not. And this is because

the latter, unlike the former, is always or for the

most part the case.

Metaphysics, Epsilon 2, tr. Hugh Lawson-

Tancred (Penguin, 1999), 1589


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http://chartsgraphs.wordpress.com/tag/climate-trends/

Goddard Institute for Space Studies


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vanadium porphyrin

from petroleumachlorophyll a


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NOAA


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there is no such thing as a horizonGraham Harman, Tool-Being

(Open Court, 2002), p. 155


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The Three Timescales

1) Frightening timescale

2) Horrifying timescale

3) Petrifying timescale

Several hundred years

Thirty thousand years

One hundred thousand years


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4. Hyperobjects


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Is the truth [of no-self] depressing? Some may find it so. But

I find it liberating, and consoling. When I believed that my

existence was [a deep further fact, distinct from physicaland psychological continuity, and a fact that must be all-or-

nothing], I seemed imprisoned in myself. My life seemed

like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every

year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I

changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared.

I now live in the open air. There is still a difference between

my life and the lives of other people. But that difference is

less. Other people are closer. I am less concerned about

the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the livesof others.

Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons

(Oxford, 1984), 281


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(1) If you both betray each other you will receive

five years in jail.

(2) If one of you betrays and the other is silent,the betrayed one will receive ten years in jail.

(3) If you both remain silent, you will each get

six months for a minor charge.

The Prisoners Dilemma


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The Strange Stranger

Joseph Jastrow,

Duck-rabbit illusion

Jacques Derrida, larrivant

OOO, object

The future future


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5. Hyperviscosity


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Banksy


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viscosity


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Comora Tolliver, Pod


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