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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