Dark EcologyTim Morton

IntroductionIn which I drone on about my pet peeve

Larry Butz, Rice University

RNA world

“DNA-ocene”

“Bacteriocene”

Asteroid extinction event

Anthropocene

Concentric Temporalities

No Metalanguage

Agrilogistics

Tenniel

Everything is a Field

Tenniel

Trying to get rid of the loop is the loop

Trying to get rid of the loop is the loop

A=A

Trying to get rid of the loop is the loop

Dialetheia vs LNC

TarskiMetalanguageMetaphysics Γ

This sentence is false

Back to the Future

Signs of Progress

Romantic irony (narrator discovers she is the protagonist)Hypocrisy vs cynicismAllergy The uncanny

Signs of Progress

If a time machine could serve up to you your 200 million greats grandfather, you would eat him with sauce tartare and a slice of lemon. He was a fish. Yet you are connected to him by an unbroken line of intermediate ancestors, every one of whom belonged to the same species as its parents and its children . . .

If your theology tells you that human beings should receive special respect and moral privilege as the only species that possesses a soul, you have to face up to the awkward question of when, in human evolution, the first ensouled baby was born. Richard Dawkins

Fuzzy SetsRussell Set ParadoxSorites Paradox

Happy Nihilism

vs

Dark Nihilism

Hyperobjects Phenomenon–thing gap (Kant)

Miasma Meontic nothing(nothingness)

Trickster

Accelerationism

Hyperobjects Phenomenon–thing gap (Kant)

Miasma Meontic nothing(nothingness)

Let the deterritorialization of Earth commence!

Phenomenological reduction of ecological awareness

Guilt << Shame << Melancholia << Sadness << Joy