ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Everyday Aesthetics

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Everyday Aesthetics

Thanks to Le vent fripon (who sadly deleted his comment, never mind), I got hold of Yuriko Saito's Everyday Aesthetics, published last year. I'm looking into it and seeing its merit already. I have a thing about lawns and I'm happy to see them covered. No airports yet though, Chris Schaberg!

6 comments:

Tom Sparrow said...: I like Sait's book very much, and actually taught most of it last spring. For some reason the student's gave is a cool reception, but that may have been my fault.; September 22, 2011 at 5:18 PM
Timothy Morton said...: I'm keen to read it fully: I see she also talks a bit about ambience...Sometimes students don't see the subtleties of things, perhaps?; September 22, 2011 at 6:28 PM
Tom Sparrow said...: Yeah, could be. By the way, any idea when Ecological Thought will be in paperback?; September 22, 2011 at 7:07 PM
Christopher Schaberg said...: Don't worry, I'm on the airport aesthetics front! Going through the final copy-edit queries for The Textual Life of Airports; September 22, 2011 at 8:31 PM
bobbyjgeorge said...: A return to Everyday Aesthetics...; September 23, 2011 at 10:51 AM
enthusreader said...: try this other one , much more substantial http://books.google.com/books/about/Everyday_aesthetics.html?id=1mab9s7emsECme; October 6, 2011 at 11:26 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

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Everyday Aesthetics

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