Main entry:

Morton, Timothy, 1968-

Title & Author:

Hyperobjects : philosophy and ecology after the end of the world / Timothy Morton.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]

Description:

x, 229 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Series:

Posthumanities ; 27

Restrictions:

MyiLibrary allows one user access at a time (21.03.2018).

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-219) and index.
A Quake in Being: An Introduction to Hyperobjects -- Part I. What Are Hyperobjects? -- Viscosity -- Nonlocality -- Temporal Undulation -- Phasing -- Interobjectivity -- Part II. The Time of Hyperobjects -- The End of the World -- Hypocrisies -- The Age of Asymmetry.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

"Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But 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. Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls "hyperobjects"--Entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is in the first place. In this book, Morton explains what hyperobjects are and their impact on how we think, how we coexist with one another and with nonhumans, and how we experience our politics, ethics, and art. Moving fluidly between philosophy, science, literature, visual and conceptual art, and popular culture, the book argues that hyperobjects show 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 of inhabiting a world, we find ourselves inside a number of hyperobjects, such as climate, nuclear weapons, evolution, or relativity. Such objects put unbearable strains on our normal ways of reasoning."--Publisher's website.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780816689224 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816689229 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816689231 (pb ; alk. paper)
0816689237 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Object (Philosophy)
Future, The.
Objet (Philosophie)
Futur.
08.42 philosophy of culture.
Philosophy.
Objekt
Welt
Bezugsgröße
Cultuurfilosofie.
Object (filosofie)
Toekomst.
Metafysik.
Framtiden.

Added entries:

Posthumanities ; 27.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292847
Call No.: BIB 237373
Status: Available