ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Heidegger Junkie

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Heidegger Junkie

I'm finishing an essay on Dungeons and Dragons and philosophy (!), about the notion of world in D&D. Thus I'm having to re-read large swathes of Being and Time. Somehow it feels good this time. It's not always that way. The book has a certain extremely distinctive feeling to it, but it's curiously like a fantasy role playing game or a Tolkien novel. There's a combination of mystery and earthiness, like resting on a stone you realize is a standing stone.

3 comments:

Karl said...: cant wait to see that essay!; July 7, 2011 at 5:32 PM
Jordan S.C. said...: This might be far afield, but have you looked at roleplaying games like "Shock," which take world-building out of the hands of the game-master and make it collaborative? "Mage" is another game that thematizes consensual world-building, though it relies on a GM-controlled setting: different paradigms create their own worlds so that magic is essentially an attempt to force one world upon another.; July 8, 2011 at 12:02 PM
Bendistraw said...: Can't wait to see it! I'm a big fan of both (D&D and B&T). Have you seen this from theonion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw8gE3lnpLQ; July 8, 2011 at 5:55 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

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Heidegger Junkie

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