Tim Morton, “They are here” Talking Heads video “Crosseyed and painless” (dir. Toni Basil, featured the Elecric Boogaloos). Is the non-national anthem of global anxiety. The sound of the end of the world and beginning of history. The first moonwalk is here (not Michael Jackson). The Levinasian “il y-a”, environmental creepiness, but we don’t know […]
Posts Tagged ‘Tim Morton’
NT6: Morton: “They are here”
Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged Nonhuman Turn, Tim Morton on May 4, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Morton’s poetry
Posted in Philosophy, tagged aesthetics, object-oriented philosophy, process-, Tim Morton on October 2, 2011 | 19 Comments »
Tim Morton writes beautifully. His “Objects as Temporary Autonomous Zones,” published in the most recent issue of Continent, is a beautiful illustration of this. I could say he writes poetically, but that would be suggesting that his writing is not itself poetry, but only looks and feels like poetry — which would mean succumbing to […]