I've Been Kicked in the Biosphere

50% of all animals. By which is meant things with a spine, fish, primates, lizards. 50% gone in 40 years . I never personally signed on for ...

UK Food Stamps, at Last!

Conservative party conference yesterday, fixed: “Hey now that we've been calling it welfare for five years, the public must be ready fo...

Future Fomentation

Dominic Boyer and I are making an intellectual something so berserk that it could actually have a positive effect, you know, in the ahem act...

Sparkly Goth Meltings

Cocteau Twins, “Squeeze-Wax.” Someone got the delirious fluidity right on the video didn't they? When I bought this I was pretty sure th...

Dark Ecology

Coming in to land. I needed to get ahead of about 20 essays. Putting in some new thoughts and brushing up the old. There's about 12 more...

"Deficit"

Thank you BBC for amplifying the tweet of my old classmate, the chancellor, who said that someone didn't say the word “deficit.” When I...

Language

PS: “fix” means “gut.” Like “I'll fix you, you *** ** * *****”

The Chemical Reaction Known as Blame

That's one of the nicest things I could imagine someone saying about me. “The chemical reaction known as Morton.” I know it's danger...

What Is Ecological Art? (MP3)

I had had a very very moving time in Cumbria (where I used to live a bit) and the exhibition of work at the Wordsworth museum, inspired by t...

OOO the World of Baby Ford

That's what it's called. Not making it up! Oh 1988. “Poem for Wigan” and “Wigan,” because I'm at Wigan station.

Billions of Micro-Transcendences

Dear chap, I'm not undoing the transcendental. I'm allowing everything to enjoy it. Not just (human) subject, Geist, history, econom...

...and I Feel Fine? (MP3)

My talk in Glasgow. Really good q&a. Thank you everyone! Rune Graulund was a terrific host. Martin Leer from Geneva was so good--haven...

Eco Conference in Glasgow Today and Tomorrow

“The End of Place as We Know It.” Here's what is happening . It will be so good to meet Edward Casey whose  The Fate of Place  is just a...

Scots, China Doesn't Want a Yes Vote Because...

It might encourage the Tibetans... I am not making this up. Yet another good reason to etc etc.

The Right Book to Read on the Train to Glasgow Today

It's absolutely brilliant. Totally disarming. Comic timing is how you actually write good sentences, and the sentences in this are very ...

Thank You Jon Stewart

This is absolutely accurate. Rice has the best ever sexual violence and harassment policy. Ever. It's run by actual trained social worke...

Scotland, Pounds, Fear

If you are a sovereign nation you can create your own money. [End of debate]

Subatomic Sound

They have made a thing sounds like a thing of atomic size that allows you to hear the sound of an atom if you had ears that could tune to tw...

"It'll Be Bad for Business! Uncertainty!"

This is the bit that is really really unacceptable. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about, Scotland. Since when did corporations ...

Haim Is Where the Heart Is

His picture for me got on my lobby wall finally. It's got these tiny very high resolution pictures of his exhibition at the Menil.

I SURRENDER...

...to the phenomenal world...

This Is Happening in Grasmere

Next Sunday, at 10:30am . At the Wordsworth Museum. In an era of ecological emergency, why do we need art? Humans have had a long history of...

OOO Meditation

When you meditate you experience your mind as an object. Entity. Being. Whatever feels like the right word. Quantum. Just there. People thin...

This Will Happen at Northwestern

...on Tuesday November 4: Hypocrites Tim Morton The point of ecological criticism, whether it's in the media and in scholarship, often s...

This Will Happen, Far North

...in Kirkenes, Norway, Thursday October 9: My friend Douglas Kahn recently invented the phrase Earth magnitude . When we scale up to Earth ...

Morton vs. The Texas Board of Education

“Authority.” My daughter was on the computer at school defining this word and hearing an example of a sentence that contains it. The example...

Now That's What I Call Speculative Realism

Well this is one of my favorite stories. So Padmasambhava was hanging out with his girlfriend Yeshe Tsogyal. And he is being quite impressiv...

Philosophy Sometimes Cries

Philosophy should be about allowing sentences to happen from your innermost feelings.

Anti-Intellectualism

The most popular fashion among professional intellectuals. Only the professional intellectual can afford to be anti-intellectual. Discuss.

Chris Tong

Wow Chris you sure know how to make a grown man cry. Chris is a fellow at Washington U in St. Louis.

German Ecology without Nature

Yes, it will come out quite soon, well, in book time anyway. Just heard about it.

Exohuman

I just made this word up for my friend Jeffrey Kripal. I shall now use this word.

Ulver

You know, respect to any band that tries to set Blake poems to music. It can work--Blake used to doodle on the piano to them himself. And ev...

T Shirt

Well, I got it made. It has I SURRENDER on the front and a huge AH syllable on the back, which is truly a sigh of relief.

I SURRENDER

For ages I've been wanting to make a t-shirt with that on it and a female deity such as Tara on the back. I like the threatening (for so...

Žižek on ....?

Awesome , nice to Buddhism (though nb, Tibetan Buddhism is a path of bliss but whatever), and so forth. Insert the insecure true believer of...

Sparklecore

Youth and freedom are connected with the birth of the awakened state of mind. The awakened state has the quality of morning, of dawn—fresh a...

Jón Gnarr >> Rice

...in the spring. This is such good news is it not? There will be events...

Erm

This is where I live . Look at how it voted fro 1845 to 2005. Now look at the image, which shows how it's been redistricted. In what rea...

Remote Ocean

Someone asks, how can one notice the "nonlocal" effects of the hyperobject ocean thousands of miles inland? Well, there are three ...