Morton | Atmos 2015 Emergence

One of the things that modern society has damaged has been thinking. Unfortunately, one of the damaged ideas is that of Nature itself. How do we transition from seeing what we call “Nature” as an object “over there”? And how do we avoid “new and improved” versions that end up doing much the same thing (embeddedness, flow and so on), just in a “cooler,” more sophisticated way?

 

When you realize that everything is interconnected, you can't hold on to a concept of a single, solid, present-at-hand thing “over there” called Nature.

 

Timothy Morton, PhD is the author of Hyperobjects (Minnesota University Press, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard University Press, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard University Press, 2007), nine other books and over one hundred and twenty essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, food and music. He is Rita Shea Guffey Chair of English at Rice University.

 

 

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