Puffing

It's called “blurbing” but if you study the history of the book, the blurb is the description on the jacket, whereas a puff is an endors...

Christine Skolnik on Realist Magic

At Environmental Critique ...Looking forward to reading it some more.

It Appears to Be On Sale

(This was my idea for the cover. Some kind of reaction shot. Because one can't directly see the entities in question. Along the same lin...

The Last Shutdown

I recall it, as it forced me to be stranded in the UK waiting for the embassy to open. I was right in the middle of my green card applicatio...

Are You Paying Attention?

All over the world news (BBC etc.) today: The GOP will force a government shutdown or, far worse, crash the world's fragile economy, all...

Viscous Photons

It's quite clear why this might happen . To exist is to have a gap between what you are and how you appear, a gap that can't be loca...

Wolfe Hyperobjects

Cary Wolfe just wrote me to say how beautiful it looked. He didn't have to do that--actually it should've been me writing him but he...

They Are Here

Patricia Clough on Hyperobjects

“With a world melted by global warming, Timothy Morton gives us a much needed concept, the hyperobject, and surrounds it with a consciousnes...

Agenda Today

First up I wrote eleven questions for my daughter's reading group on Where the Red Fern Grows . Then I'm off to teach two Wordsworth...

That Was Nice

A three thousand word essay for Claire Colebrook in a day. The best was a 7000 word essay for New Literary History (hi Rita!) in three hours...

"But I Like It"

"My own experience confirms this. Here's our profile: healthy family of 3, with good income, living in NY, with both spouses now se...

Think Tank (PiL)

 I like how the tank becomes military here.

Think Tank

A think tank is just a fake university run by conservatives or neoliberals to confuse people. Look at this for instance . The chap spreading...

Latour on "Progress"

Continued from the last post: I can't tell you how awkward it was to be pathologized as one of these apocalypse mongers on numerous occa...

Bingo, Latour

Modernizers are extraordinarily good at freeing themselves from the shackles of the archaic, provincial, stuffy, local, territorial past. Bu...

Hyperobjects Day

“ Hello!   You are receiving this because you are in some way connected with me and my book Hyperobjects , which is due out on September 23 ...

Why Did It Happen?

That parallel with Latour is strange. I wrote Hyperobjects in fifteen days in the summer of 2011. Latour gave the lectures in 2012. Presumab...

Latour Hyperobjects

Watching the Gifford lectures in preparation for the American Academy of Religion, I"m struck by how when writing Hyperobjects  I was t...

Object-Oriented Architecture

Oh yes I think so. A growing number of architects are into it. These were suggested to me as prototypical examples of it , and I'm think...

"I'm sorry I have to take this"

This piece by Ian Bogost is just excellent.

Tweet Proof

Jeffrey Cohen was sending off some proofs today. I had forgotten to read them. So I thought the most efficient way to get them to him would ...

Slowmo Nonhuman Time

If you are a small animal, time passes slowly --strangely like in Spiderman ... Thanks Cliff Gerrish...

Julian Yates on ANT: "Agent Orange"

Trying to take into account all the possible entities in an action such as making bacon and eggs, a blog post or a journal article. Actants,...

Time and Space Are Emergent

A rather wonderful mathematical object drastically simplifies calculating the scattering of quanta. And suggests that spacetime emerges fro...

Subtropically

Dawn happens here somewhat later than it would in northern climes such as England. It's quite noticeable, having been in the UK for nine...

Koch Brothers, Here Is An Even More Frightening Obamacare Ad

"Imagine not having any health insurance at all."

300+

More than 300 scholarly citations now for Ecology without Nature. I was wondering when that might happen. I'm not sure whether it's ...

Art/France/Ecological Thought

In Bourges .  Ghost Nature  is a group exhibition based around the strangeness of the natural world. As contemporary philosopher, Timothy Mo...

More Hyperobject:Homeland

As it is a hologram it changes depending where you are. Like a hyperobject!

Hyperobject:Homeland Where?

It is in New York . Paula Dawson. I wrote a brief piece for her show called “Paula Dawson, Hyperobject Detector,” which you will find it you...

Book Launches

I have never understood them, ever . It seems particularly absurd in the case of Hyperobjects, considering how they are “everywhere” all at ...

Essays Coming

The piece on plexiglass chairs for Marina Zurkow's  Petroleum Manga  project is done and nearly out. My essay for Olafur Eliasson is bei...

Get Your Lovely Hyperobjects Here!

Pollution, global warming, radiation-- go on, you know you want to . Number 3 in Criticism!

Julian Yates on ANT at Rice

Yes that's right, this Friday.

One Week to Hyperobjects

Get your advance copy ! That and The Ecological Thought  appear to be doing rather well in what is known as the Criticism chart.

Performing Objects UK

Oh man yes .

Colebrook, Wolfe, Anthropocene

Well at least there's this! Thanks Cliff!

Colebrook Recorded?

Some of you have asked. Alas no. Next time, if you are near to Professsor Colebrook and she is talking, do pay attention...

Claire Colebrook

...just gave the best talk on ecology and the Anthropocene that I've heard since I arrived last year at Rice. Sorry other speakers but i...

"Not Predictable"

...said a right wing pundit on the threat of attack >> congress >> diplomacy with looming threat of attack. Good. He is paying a...

Anthropocentrism 101

" Humans are niche creators. We transform ecosystems to sustain ourselves. This is what we do and have always done." Erle Ellis Fr...

Deleuzian Autism 2

...and is  a non-modern state immediate and non-reflexive? And is the modern state (newly) reflexive? Is  there such a thing as ecological c...

Deleuzian Autism

I've had this beef with Deleuzian panegyrics to autism. Don't they reproduce the primitivism with which immediacy = who we really ar...

700 Pre-Orders

...of Hyperobjects . That's more than the first edition of my first book (1994).

A Polar Bear Called Suzan (Interview)

Interview with Lisa Doeland, De Groene Amsterdammer , August 1, 2013, 50–51 Timothy Morton on becoming ecologically conscious “We have to le...

Mal-Functioning (MP3)

From Ecology and the Environmental Humanities, Rice University, September 13. Larry Butz presiding. Claire Colebrook in attendance. Rice is ...

Voyager 1 Has Now Entered John Coltrane's Mind

I Shall Be Questioned by Robots

At the Falmouth Performing Objects conference in October . Good heavens.

Against Species

Thanks Cliff!  The argument is reductionist and similar to standard model quantum theory: below a certain scale things behave very different...

The Trouble with Doctors

Can you and your staff please try to be as polite and professional as I am with my students? I'm fed up with being treated like a second...

Red Is Not Evil

" Mind and its projections are innocent. They are very ordinary, very natural, and very simple. Red is not evil, and white is not divin...

Are You Listening, Huffington Post?

Yes .

Righteousness

Good lord that's righteous .

Now Here's a Contradiction I Don't Endorse

I heard a Republican say this today: 1. Obama should have just bombed a few week ago. 2. Now that it's up for a vote, he shouldn't b...

Eco Symposium Friday and Saturday, Rice

You should totally come to this if you are near. Claire Colebrook's talk ("Sex and the Anthrpocene City") will be superb. PDF ...

There Is Nothing

...by Ozric Tentacles. I really like the first tune, “The Sacred Turf.”

Heidegger on Geoengineering

That's right Clive . He would say that!

Skyspace!

This gives you a good idea of the James Turrell piece here. I wrote an essay on it called "The Space between Things" coming out i...

Definition of Consumerism

Take it away Colin Campbell:  " a distinctive form of hedonism, one in which the enjoyment of emotions as summoned through imaginary or...

The Aesthetic Dynamics of Horror

" There is absolutely no reason to signal to the enemy when and how, and for how long, you plan to strike them -- none. As I’ve said be...

Sun Tzu Corner

When you are perhaps going to war, it's good to appear crazy.

Leadership

Is it okay for a leader to hesitate or change her or his mind in public? (That is a rhetorical question.)

Instant Karma

" A police  spokesman told  an Orlando Sentinel reporter that Zimmerman 'appears calm, collected.' " Male Floridian cop du...

Ten Talks

Ten talks that reference my stuff at this coming Society for Literature, Science and the Arts. Blimey. I better start talking sense. :)

The Rice Consumerism Project

Be afraid. These guys are the best .

Dams as Hyperobjects

Brett Milligan takes the concept for a spin . Nice one!

Anthropocene Redux

FYI-- Clive and I hung out courtesy of Dipesh Chakrabarty at his Anthropocene conference in May, that's how I know him. Great mind and...

Earthmasters

Hi Clive ! You made it onto Think Progress!

Math and Reality

An interesting take courtesy of Bill Benzon .

Pretty Good on Pedagogy

This talk starts with a lot of language about "mastery" and has some quite helpful advice for beginning teachers, such as myself!...

Punctum Things

At the New School and CUNY .

EMP Seattle Conference

On mobility ! I like the suggestion about stillness!

The Rice Consumerism Project

Professor Morton, what are you up to these days? Well, I'm compelling my students to do regular blog posts on their consumerist (or lack...

Cultures of Energy Announces Hyperobjects

This is from the Center on Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences. A blog beautifully maintained by the effervescent Derek...

Slouching as Aggression

" When you slouch, you are trying to hide your heart, protecting it by slumping over. But when you sit upright but relaxed in the postu...

"Take It Off Congress"

"Because being a Monday morning quarterback is my way of exercising the ever popular cynical reason." " During those discussi...

Diacritics

I've always been interested in this journal. I think the first essay I ever read in it was Derrida's one on nuclear missiles, in the...

Talk Links Operative

In the Past Talks tab, all my recent talk mp3s.

Realist Magic Update

It appears to be doing reasonably well, I think. It is in the "Metaphysics" chart on amazon. Which means that it is competing with...

"Sound Familiar?"

" This week, the White House sought to thrust the nation into military action in the Middle East, claiming that its "high confiden...