ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: New Natures Seminar Series: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World

Thursday, May 5, 2011

New Natures Seminar Series: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World

Speaker	Professor Timothy Morton
Description	6.45pm for 7pm, Tuesday 17 May All welcome - Register online for this free event. New Natures, a free public seminar series of lectures on the place of nature in relation to law and politics in contemporary thought. Timothy Morton, Professor of English (Literature and the Environment) at University of California, Davis, will present ‘Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World.’ Professor Morton’s books include The Ecological Thought (Harvard UP, 2010) and Ecology without Nature (Harvard UP, 2007). His highly developed engagements with ecological thought suggest new ways of thinking about politics and law, and aim to provide the “cognitive flashlights” to assist human life through its current ecological emergency. Download flyer here
Venue	Room 102, Melbourne Law School
Address	185 Pelham Street Carlton 3053
Contact Person	Jenny O'Connell
Contact Details	Email: law-creel@unimelb.edu.au Phone: 03 8344 6938
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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

Thursday, May 5, 2011

New Natures Seminar Series: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World

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