ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Disappointed

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Disappointed

This is without doubt the most magnificent and joyful way of telling someone to fuck off I know. Use it wisely. Sickening goth major–minor sliding, chorusing and heavy guitars. The right sort of hard drumming. And of course John Lydon. It has some of the absolute best lyrics too:

Promises, promises / Old tired worn out second-hand sentences / One thing with you is certain / You're a really sad person...

This one has Spanish subtitles and is from the actual album 9, which is best. Without stinking ads. Play loud.

2 comments:

Henry Warwick said...: Here's another version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzmjRoXzWYM

strings. brushes on the drums. someone who can sing. very odd - very pretty and somehow "darker" and even more "cheerful" than the original. I dunno. I need some coffee...; December 11, 2011 at 12:51 PM
Petrus said...: Bless your mind Tim, but please indulge mine, as your post urged the little dharma troublemaker in me to take a stroll…

How does offering an effective way to tell someone to "fuck off" sit alongside the cultivation (and I would assume, maintenance) of Bodhicitta? From various things you've said here and there, I've gathered that you're treading more of a dzogchen-oriented path than a lam-rim one; and while that level of dharma practice might posit a certain degree of transparency with respect to the recommended mandates of a "graduated path," it would appear that choosing this kind of negative dispatch wouldn't accord with the compassionate approach (and here I'm also assuming we're not confusing the "fuck off" with another well-worn inspiration called "tough love")… unless -- you're positing Lydon as a bodhisattva? (That would be spiritual bypassing, mate... :-)

But taking the dzogchen cue a little further here… is it perhaps depending on the sense that even "non-virtuous" action is somehow simply another "display of wisdom mind"? I could almost agree with that, except for the matter of: the intention which generates the action. There's the clincher, eh?

BTW, can't wait for Buddhaphobia...; December 11, 2011 at 9:38 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, December 10, 2011

Disappointed

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