Hyperobjects Liveblog

Well I've never done this before: liveblog writing a book. What the hey. There's a first time for everything.

But I have written a book in about four weeks. Ecology without Nature took five and The Ecological Thought took three. There was a good deal of tweaking after that but the bulk was done in those times.

I think the thing about writing at a speed is very much how Graham describes it. It just makes things better and more integrated. Now the thing is, you have to have something to say. And luckily I've been talking hyperobjects for just over a year, so I'm ready. I tend to wait until the raincloud is quite full, in other words. It's just better that way for me.

So I'm going to sketch something like the whole book today, based on my approach that I described in a previous post. Write the whole thing as a three-page document then just keep on adding sentences.

My first discovery is that this wants to be a book in two parts rather than three chapters. That's the first time that happened. But there's such an easy division between “hyperobjects” proper and “the time of hyperobjects,” which also mirrors the age of asymmetry I've been talking about for a while.