ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: De Paul Wrap-Up

Sunday, April 10, 2011

De Paul Wrap-Up

Wire wound up the evening at Metro: astonishing

I hope to post Rick's incredible response to my talk, and my response to Rick, online soon, along with my presentation and some more notes about the Q&A. That was very close a day of total joy and we all left the conference feeling more than happy with what had happened.

It's hard to describe the goodness of the group dynamic there. People were aware of one another's schtick like long term participants in group or AA: there was some kind of nonconfrontation, enlightened humor and sense of difference. Great group. I'm convinced this reflects very well on the faculty, and there appear to be no scapegoats, which is a remarkable phenomenon for any group.

I was deeply moved and energized by the meeting and I hope we can work together in the future.

2 comments:

DublinSoil said...: Tim, it was an enormous pleasure to have you on campus at DePaul; your amiability, wit, intellectual generosity, and erudition made the day a great success. Honestly, I can't remember a one-day conference that I have enjoyed more. You, sir, are a gentleman. And a scholar...Liam; April 10, 2011 at 10:26 AM
Timothy Morton said...: Liam, it's only because of your immense kindness and intelligence that this thing worked as well as it did. I owe you!; April 10, 2011 at 10:31 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

Sunday, April 10, 2011

De Paul Wrap-Up

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