ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Looking for a House

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Looking for a House

...in Houston today. About to meet the guy who's going to show me around. For some strange reason I have very good house finding karma. I think it's because I have no rigid expectations about what I want: I sort of let the thing call to me rather than imposing my idea on it. I've lived in I.M. Pei's building off of Washington Square, Oscar Wilde's old room at Magdalen, a 16th century cottage (Oxford) and an octagonal house (Boulder). And a silent paradise (Davis). Happily also my wife Kate said “Surprise me”: she is going to sell the house in Davis while I get one in Houston. Less chefs to spoil the broth that way. She is literally not wanting to see it until she shows up some time in July...

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David Beers said...: Houston? You got a new position? Rice? UH?

Not sure what you're looking for but personally I enjoyed Houston Heights / Norhill when I lived there a decade ago:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Houston,+TX&hl=en&ll=29.786764,-95.375748&spn=0.013837,0.027874&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.222969,114.169922&oq=houst&hnear=Houston,+Harris,+Texas&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=29.786762,-95.375631&panoid=W61QxordFzGIAhKSi1tPgw&cbp=12,98.52,,0,0

Many streets as pretty as those around Rice but smaller homes without the snooty attitude. For example you'll see traditional icehouses (open air bars/poolhalls, often featuring local zydeco acts) with interesting color.

Good luck to you!; March 25, 2012 at 5:24 PM
Henry Warwick said...: Wow - good luck! It was the opposite for us. We sold the place in SF (it was clear in 2007, the economy was about to implode). We moved into an apartment here that was nice but too small, forcing us to find a place. After a year we found a great place in a nice neighbourhood.; March 25, 2012 at 6:58 PM

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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.

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—Slavoj Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes

“Dark ecology has the potential to be the punk rock or experimental pop of ecological thinking.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Looking for a House

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