Timothy Morton
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World (Posthumanities)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780816689231
- author:
- Timothy Morton
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2013
- Pages:
- 240
- Dimensions:
- 21.4 x 14 x 1.8 cm
- Genre:
- Science & Nature, Environment & Ecology, Conservation,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Timothy Morton's Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World explores the impact of global warming on our understanding of the world and our place within it. The author argues that the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding.
Hyperobjects are entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is in the first place. Morton explains how these entities affect how we think, how we coexist with one another and with nonhumans, and how we experience our politics, ethics, and art. The book takes a postmodern ecological approach to thought and action, outlining a new way of thinking about the world we now live in.
By moving fluidly between philosophy, science, literature, visual and conceptual art, and popular culture, Morton shows that the end of the world has already occurred in the sense that concepts such as world, nature, and even environment are no longer a meaningful horizon against which human events take place. Instead, we find ourselves inside a number of hyperobjects, such as climate, nuclear weapons, evolution, or relativity.
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