“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Friday, April 1, 2011

Class on The Ecological Thought and OOO



Featuring some discussions of my new position:

The Mesh is a sensual object.
Strange strangers are real objects.

It was so wonderful to visit Florida International University, hosted by the fantastic Steven Blevins, whose intellectual acumen is just so sharp and kind at the same time. He's the one you hear at the start introducing my books.

Participants included Nathaniel Cadle, Maneck Daruwala, Heidi Scott and Andy Strycharski.

3 comments:

Karl said...

thanks for posting these talks. massively appreciate it and enjoy them.

forestmongrel said...

Tim,
Great listen.
I listened to theory and buddism audio file the next day.

Hearing you recognize the Mesh as a sensual object, led me to the very disturbingly comforting feeling that consciousness is a sensual object.

I suppose this is quite obvious, but which readings do you suggest to fill out this thought/feeling/idea?


I also want to bring your attention to a Korean movie made about Ecology without Nature and OOO.

"I am a cyborg, and that's okay"


enjoy!

Thank you for all your excellent teachings, talkings and writings.

-duskin

Timothy Morton said...

@forestmongrel Thank you very much. I'm writing on consciousness as a sensual object right now and if you look around on the blog, you'll see some posts to that effect. I'm not sure there's anything specific out there. It is disturbingly comforting--I get that...