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Ecological Ethics after
the End of the World
Tim Morton
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I am become death,
the shatterer of worlds
Robert Oppenheimer, after
the Bhagavad Gita
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A Quake in Being
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Hyperobjects
Viscous
Nonlocal local manifestation
(Bryant)
Temporal undulation
Phasing
Interobjectivity
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Hyperobjects
Hypocrisy
Weakness
Lameness
Age of Asymmetry
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Hyperobjects
Object-Oriented Ontology
Lifeworld
Metalanguage
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Anthropocene
1790 Carbon Deposits
1945 Great Acceleration
Plutonium
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Anthropocene
Trinity Test at 0.016 Seconds
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Speculative Realism
correlationism
burying the world in nullity in
order to prove it (Heidegger)
only as long as Da-sein is, is
there [gibt es] being it can
neither be said that beings are,
nor that they are not (Heidegger)
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Object-Oriented Ontology
correlationism
tool-analysis
present-at-hand (vorhanden)
ready-to-hand (zuhanden)
withdrawal (Entzug)
execution (Vollzug)
Graham Harman
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Object-Oriented Ontology
present-at-hand (vorhanden)
ready-to-hand (zuhanden)
withdrawal (Entzug)execution (Vollzug)
flat ontology (real / sensual objects)
vicarious causation (aesthetic)
Graham Harman
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End of Modernity
towering through (Heidegger)
All that is solid melts into air
(Macbeth, Marx)
halting
too-early arrival of future (after the
end of the world)
saving power (Hlderlin)
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Hypocrisies
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Self-interest theories
Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime, Remain in Light
(Sire Records, 1980)
This is not my beautiful houseThis is not my beautiful wife
This is not my beautiful boy
This is not my beautiful streetThis is not my beautiful action
versus the uncanny
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Self-interest theories
Sren Kierkegaard
Inside the hyperobject we are always
in the wrongAgainst God we are always in the wrong
Futurality of hyperobject
Asymmetry: Urgency, passion + irony
versus the uncanny
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Inside the hyperobject we
are always in the wrong
inside-ness (not spatial)
very large finitude
cure for nihilism within nihilism
getting used to (mathsis)
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Inside the hyperobject
Alphonso Lingis
level
directive
zone (versus world)
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Zones
[N]ot something that just is what
it is, here and now, without
mystery, but something like a
questa tone on its way callingforth echoes and responseswater
seeking its liquidity in the
sunlight rippling across the
cypresses in the back of thegarden.
Alphonso Lingis, The Imperative
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), 29
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Zones
What constitutes pretense is that,
in the end, you don't know whether
it's pretense or not.
Jacques Lacan, Le seminaire, Livre III: Les psychoses
(Paris: Editions de Seuil, 1981), 48
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Zones
Eliane Radigue
Core shattering (Erschtterung) Adorno
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Zones
Yukultji Napangati, Untitled 2011
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Zones
Bridget Riley, Fall
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Zones
grounding Kantian aesthetic judgment
(itself the ground of synthetic judgment)
grounding the reason for dispensing
with authoritarian Burkean aesthetic
nonconceptual but not nothing
not Hegelian A=A (immediacy)
in your face
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Zones
nonconceptual but not nothing
not Hegelian A=A (immediacy)
in your facenot onto-theological
feeling of unreality
(not vorhanden)
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Cynicism doomed
Anything you can do I can do meta
delivery
attunement
doom: decree, ordinance; judgment,law, faculty of judging; opinion,
discernment; fate, destiny, death;
justice, judge
the end of the world
cynicism as hypocritical hypocrisy
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Hypocrisy
delivery, hypokrisis
krinein, to judge, discern (doom)
the end of the world
cynicism as hypocritical hypocrisythe physical as a form of delivery
interobjective
acousmatic
The Liar: This sentence is false.
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Hypocrisy
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each
hung bell'sBow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its
name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selvesgoes itself;myselfit speaks and spells,Crying, What I do is me: for that I came.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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The Object as Liar
The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Human Shadow, Hiroshima
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Forms of Cynicism
1+n objects in interobjective space
beliefs about belief
Concept of Nature (yonder)
Gaia hypothesis
holism as mechanism
left cynicism
Romantic period
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