Two things to consider before your morning coffee. 1) We are living through a Holocene collapse event,* when the nearly 12,000 year old regime of relative climate stability, the “comfort zone” for most of what we know as human civilization, is beginning to tear to shreds. (Here’s just one of the shreds from yesterday’s news.) […]
Posts Tagged ‘Timothy Morton’
Symbiocene@Ruigoord.NL
Posted in Anthropocene, Cultural politics, Eco-culture, tagged Amsterdam, autonomism, eco-art, Free Cultural Spaces, Glenn Albrecht, hippies, Ruigoort, squatting, Symbiocene, Timothy Morton on July 27, 2023 | 1 Comment »
How to welcome a guest
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Coronavirus, COVID-19, EcoHealth Alliance, Edward Gorey, global ecology, hyper-events, hyperobjects, One Health Initiative, pandemics, Timothy Morton, virology, viruses on March 15, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
The outbreak of Coronavirus is a good opportunity to think about how we treat guests whose novel appearance amidst us may pose hardship, but whose continuing presence is undeniable.
Mortonian prophecies
Posted in Philosophy, tagged Anthropocene, cultural theory, ecocriticism, Guardian, Morton, OOO, Timothy Morton on June 16, 2017 | 2 Comments »
When one of our cadre of eco-cultural theorists gets noticed — more so, fêted — by one of the leading newspapers in the world, we need to take note and celebrate with him. In this case, it’s Timothy Morton getting called “the philosopher prophet of the Anthropocene” by The Guardian, in a profile titled “A reckoning […]