Malign Velocities

I'm getting my copy today ! There's a whole bunch on this in Dark Ecology so I'll need to. Malign Velocities: Accelerationism a...

A Heaping Bowl of Lovely Mind

Tai Situ is devastatingly powerful.

Ahead

For the first time in a year plus I am ahead of my projects. What an immense relief. It's like being on top of the laundry. Which is als...

Hyperobjects in 3 Quarks Daily

Thank you so much Bill-- this looks very interesting !

Past Talks Updated

Haven't done it for a while. Sorry!

Extricating Arendt from the Dustbin

Not so fast Mr. Historian :  “ This, of course, is not the Eichmann of Hannah Arendt (“the world’s worst court reporter,” as I’ve described ...

"The Real Physical World"

Spot the metaphysical assumption .  It can be stated thus: quantum phenomena are effects of measurement.  << to measure is to make rea...

Going South

Apollo 440 did their usual fantastic job here. The music is so vast I listened to it driving hundreds of miles, south of course, in Colorado...

Contact Is Content (Olafur Eliasson)

Wow, I'm looking at the try-out for this beautiful new book by Olafur Eliasson. It's photographs of land. That is such a flat descri...

Danish Ecopoetics plus Morton

Thank you Olafur Eliasson for pointing this out to me !

Professor Morton, What Are All These Talks Doing on Your Blog All of a Sudden?

Well, the thing is, I did some talks that were adjunct to the Wellek Lectures. And I was waiting until those had been done and unveiled befo...

The Humanities in the Age of Ecological Emergency (MP3)

Some people go, Morton's hyperobjects come with no easy to identify politics so I don't have to feel anxiety!” I may have some kind ...

Jón Gnarr, Your Audiobook Is Coming

The Mayor of Reykjavik, about whom I hear many good things, will get his wish for an audiobook of Hyperobjects , courtesy of audible.com. St...

Accelerationist GOP

“ The Republican response was predictabl e: a resounding “we told you so.” All along, they insisted that the ACA wouldn’t work, that it woul...

Even After I Die

My two small people quite surprised that I know "rap." I played this example. "Eternity is holding a rubik's cube......

Siddhartha Discovers an Entity

“Deep, peaceful, perfectly pure, luminous, uncompounded, and like nectar is the Dharma I have obtained. Even if I were to teach it, it could...

Realist Magic on Film

In an essay by Amelia Ishmael . Very good seeming journal.

Think Tank

I think John Lydon sums up my feelings about think tanks in general, and this sets the seal on them .

Hypocrisy, Lameness, and Weakness

Cliff writes of that review:  “It's kinda interesting that "hypocrisy, weakness and lameness" aren't taken seriously as a ...

That Agrilogistics Description

Remember this ? Well I realized I should have added that the program creates a hyperobject: the first one, really, that is made by humans.

When The Onion Agrees with You

...y ou know you're on to something .  Look how it phrases things:  “Even if every person decided to sit down at the exact same time, th...

Review of Hyperobjects

Thanks Graham for pointing this out . It is in Reviews in Cultural Theory, two words that could usefully be expanded to include nonhumans.

Your Time Is Up

It's quite clear you don't belong in the twentieth century, let alone the twenty-first.

Today Programme 1:29

BBC, why will there “always be a suspicion” that the Ukrainians shot the plane down? And how do you know this about eighteen hours later? An...

Accelerationism Minus Earth

And this brings about the future how? It's straight out of 50s PR...It hasn't even heard of Rachel Carson.

"How do the Israelis see through walls they build? The same way accelerationists do: They read Deleuze."

I've been talking in a similar way recently .

Dark Ecology and Ecocriticism (MP3)

Part 2 of my seminar in Switzerland.

Noodle Paradise

The small humans and I have visited for the fifth time what Simon loves to call "Noodle Paradise," Soto's Houston Penetrable. ...

Let Me Get This Straight

The GOP demanded that the “employer mandate” part of Obamacare be delayed. And now you're suing the President because he conceded that.

Wrong, New Scientist

“ Animals don't have a self-concept ” my foot . You should now change your name to New Scientism.

The Anthropocene: A Seminar (MP3)

Sometimes I can talk slowly : )

My Thoughts on The Ancient Mariner

Someone asks where they are. Well, there are several classes in "Classes" (Romanticism) about it. And several places in my writing...

Agrilogistics: Quick and Dirty

Someone wanted a brief-ish, simpl-ish explanation. The trouble with listening to explanations in talks is that it's hard to hold on to t...

All You Environmentalists Who Use Climate Change

Stop. Exhibit A:  “All this stems, this carbon capture, all this other stuff, it stems back to a scare, generated years ago about global war...

Statement of Intent

This is a pretty neat one, from my essay “Ecology” from Imre Szeman's Fueling Culture, coming out soon. When we divide the world into th...

Victorian Hyperobjects (Presentation)

Victorian Hyperobjects MP3 .

Victorian Hyperobjects (MP3)

My lecture for the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference. There were several hundred people in the room. Awesome occasion.

More Unforgiveable Narcissism : )

Weird that in the age of obsessive injunctions to have sex everywhere, the one thing taboo is your mind having sex with your mind. Profound ...

Sunhair

Last year I posted the original “Sunhair” from my erstwhile friends the Ozric Tentacles. Now here is the System 7 edit, which sometimes I th...

It's Not a Debate

Thanks BBC . Put that in your tailpipe and smoke it.

Altered Landscapes

This looks like a terrific exhibition in northern California . Was asked to speak at it! Which was very nice of them indeed.

Contact Is Content

I say this a lot, and I said it in one of my books. No. Actually I said “contact becomes content,” but the very perceptive Olafur Eliasson h...

Anatomy of Ecological Awareness (Presentation)

Journey to the Center of the Ecological Chocolate (Anatomy of Ecological Awareness) MP3 .

How Accurate Can You Get?

Ernst Haeckel not only coined the term ecology , he also coined First World War. Think about that one: somehow he figured it was the first. ...

Journey to the Center of the Ecological Chocolate (Anatomy of Ecological Awareness) (MP3)

My (probably) only gig on a roof! With an actual sound engineer, Hazmat. Austin, South by Southwest Music Festival, evening, on a roof, with...

Which Is the Best Floyd Album?

Oh I don't know. But having listened to them since I was about 10 I feel that the one I can listen to every single day, which doesn'...

Bill Benzon

Displays his acumen and niceness .

This Is Deep

William Connolly (awesome political theorist) and Jairus Grove (likewise) team up to fight crime . And talk about hyperobjects.

I Know a Hawk from a Handsaw

I don't ever read reviews of my stuff, at all! So when I hear about reviews, I sort of go "Dur, er, huh" like some kind of Sco...

"Voter Fraud"

“This is how it works today: In an ostensible hunt for voter fraud, a Tea Party group, True the Vote , descends on a largely minority precin...

Huffington Post

Be brave boys and girls and establish Huffington Post Houston.

Stephen Muecke on Beauty and Objects

This is a nice video by an excellent scholar. He says he's “not convinced” by OOO (although to be into hyperobjects IS to be convinced b...

Nice Review

...of Prismatic Ecology  and Hyperobjects . Very well put together.

Steal This Book

My dear friend Jeremy noticed someone trying to nick Hyperobjects  out of the Cornell Library!

Presentation for Wellek Lecture 3

Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Wellek Lecture 3) by Timothy Morton MP3 Lecture .

Presentation for Wellek Lecture 2

Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Wellek Lecture 2) by Timothy Morton MP3 Lecture .

Presentation for Wellek Lecture 1

Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Existence (Wellek Lecture 1) MP3 lecture .

My Name Is Inigo Montoya

You persisted in using the word natural . Prepare to Mass Exinguish. Thanks Nick!

To My Commenters

Argh! Sorry! I've been so incredibly busy that I've only published comments via email for a bit. Nick, I think this sorts out the is...

The Wellek Lectures 2014: Lecture 3 (MP3)

Presentation .

The Wellek Lectures 2014: Lecture 2 (MP3)

Presentation .

The Wellek Lectures 2014: Lecture 1 (MP3)

Presentation .

No, It Isn't

I like how she begins Communist Manifesto style : “A specter is haunting America.” Which is ironic. This is one thing that the cultural Mar...