ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Heidegger vs. Donna Summer

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Heidegger vs. Donna Summer

My friend the poet Joe Wenderoth suggested I listen to Louis Armstrong while reading Heidegger to keep Heidegger “honest.” Since I have only one tape of Armstrong, I'm trying Donna Summer, “Aint Nobody” juxtaposed with Being and Time. Actually it seems to work amazingly well. Anything to subtract the onto-theology.

And while we're on the subject, I ordered Lingis's new book a couple of days ago. Can't wait to read it. And some Michel Henry.

5 comments:

khadimir said...: Heidegger vs. Summer Claymation Celebrity Deathmatch?; August 18, 2011 at 1:21 PM
Bill Benzon said...: Yeah, but Armstong's all over YouTube.; August 19, 2011 at 9:20 AM
marcegoodman said...: I don't want to spoil the party but don't you mean Rufus & Chaka Khan's "Ain't Nobody"? Either way, it's a great song!; August 20, 2011 at 12:57 PM
Timothy Morton said...: Yeah no somehow the version I like is by Donna Summer; August 20, 2011 at 1:29 PM
Timothy Morton said...: Sorry Marc--my bad, the version is indeed Chaka Khan...I shall emend this.; August 21, 2011 at 12:58 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, August 18, 2011

Heidegger vs. Donna Summer

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