ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Implications of Textuality Presentation

Monday, May 10, 2010

Implications of Textuality Presentation

Here is the presentation accompanying the talk at UCSC.

Implications of Textuality Presentation

2 comments:

Michael said...: Hi,

Sorry for the unrelated comment, but...

On a recent drive from Salt Lake City to Edmonton, Alberta, I listened to almost all the podcasts of "Literature and the Environment." Needless to say, my head hurts in the best possible way.

I just ordered The Ecological Thought, and can't wait to start reading it. I'm absolutely fascinated by the idea of DNA as algorithm, fractals, the cantor set, etc. I would very much like to read more on the topic. Are there any books on the topic you would recommend?

Also, are there any plans to podcast any more classes? I, and all your Canadian fans, would love it.; May 10, 2010 at 7:24 PM
Timothy Morton said...: Hi Anon,

Benoit Mandelbrot's Fractal Geometry of Nature would be a very good place to start. Nothing like going to the source.

I shall indeed be podcasting again, probably next fall.

Thanks so much for the very kind message.; May 11, 2010 at 1:07 AM

Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. They have collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Justin Guariglia, Olafur Eliasson, and Pharrell Williams. Morton co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future’s Past, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. They are the author of the libretto for the opera Time Time Time by Jennifer Walshe. Morton has written All Art Is Ecological (Penguin, 2021), Spacecraft (Bloomsbury, 2021), Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), 8 other books and 250 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. Morton’s work has been translated into 10 languages. In 2014 they gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory.

“Outstanding.”
—Slavoj Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes

“Dark ecology has the potential to be the punk rock or experimental pop of ecological thinking.”
—Kasino A4

“It isn’t [nature] itself that needs trashing — we’re doing a fine job of that already; it’s our way of thinking about it that needs to be structurally realigned ... it's an important book that, in a scant 205 pages of main text ... frames a debate that no doubt will be carried on for years to come.”
—Vince Carducci, Pop Matters

“He practices what he theorizes: nothing is wasted in his argumentation.”
—Emmanouil Aretoulakis, Synthesis

“Picking up where his most obvious predecessors, Gregory Bateson and Felix Guattari, left off, Morton understands mental ecology as the ground zero of ecological thinking, as that which must be redressed before anything else and above all. Morton goes beyond both his forebears, however, in repairing the rift between science and the humanities, which the Enlightenment opened up and against which Romanticism reacted. Perhaps most pleasantly surprising, given its erudition, is that in its stylistic elegance The Ecological Thought is as satisfying to read as it is necessary to ponder.”
—Vince Carducci

ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE

Monday, May 10, 2010

Implications of Textuality Presentation

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