"Hyperobjects", by Timothy Morton is one of my two favorite books. The other; "The Meaning of Human Existence", by Edward O. Wilson. Both profound and deep in meaning.
Thanks! I was trying to understand OOO, and this video was a great in! Sadly was hoping to learn abit more about Morton's ideas of Dark Ecology and Hyperobjects, but Harman seemed a lot more occupied with charting the work leading up to Morton. Still a great video tho :)
This was a lot of fun and harman's clearly full of insight, but I also find his anecdotal response to 'life as flows' towards the a bit too masturbatory ("life has really five or six phases...") and very revealing of what kinds of lives harman envisions when thinking change and thinking politics.
Interesting. My take.. It was all very palletable and approved until he got to the more strike at home part... schmitt, hyoerobjects, power politics etc
Very useful in parts, why Latour has no politics (until he inserts himself into Climate Science in 2003, writes that all he had written about ANT and Science was wrong). Yet it is not quite right that ANT makes all relations equal or that it is all flow, or else sociological or ethnographic studies could never be written.
Academics means hiding from real policy changes let the Administration corporate-controlled then fires the professor. "I hope this professor has tenure" to quote the lawyer running the University of Minnesota (where Timothy Morton's book was published)
so experiences...are objects, or events ....its all word stew really....I like the fact that we are gaining "ground" on this...ground made entirely of air
I enjoy these topics, but I am left to think that these are philosophers ... yes, true, yes ... packaging their ideas with a superficial new layer (i.e., climate change). This might be due to the fact that we have had relative stability in the climate for the last 5,000 years. "I incinerate before the sun, therefore, I am" ... not quite timely at the moment.
Its much better than the propaganda saturated super cereal apocalypse climate change story the medias trying to shove down everyones throats... these guys are saying that its a pretty big problem which will get worse and worse over time and could eventually kill us.
