ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Frack That

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Frack That

I mean honestly, what a perfect name, somewhere between FRAT and FUCK. It sounds like what frat boys do to one another and now they're doing it to Earth, and to everyone's water pipes.

This needs to be on everyone's list to stop now. Those smarmy Chevron ads where they talk about being such high tech sensitive understanders and drillers now make sense.

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Paul Reid-Bowen said...: It’s also an amusing and unfortunate coincidence that everyone’s favourite recent US Sci Fi series, Battlestar Galactica, has used frack in place of fuck. Myself and many friends simply can’t watch references to hydraulic fracking and this form of gas extraction in the news without a smile (or a Beavis and Butthead style snigger, which isn’t a good thing for forty five year old to admit).
The working titles of all of my current book chapters also feature ‘fracked’ (“We’re All Fracked”, “Sytemic Reasons we’re Fracked”, “Psychological Reasons we’re Fracked”, “Escapes from Being Fracked” and “The Inevitablity of Being Fracked”). I doubt I’ll get it past the publishers, but they capture the tone and content quite effectively.; June 11, 2011 at 4:04 PM

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

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Frack That

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