ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: SLSA Liveblog 5: Nonhuman Scales of Sense (Jennifer Rhee)

Friday, September 28, 2012

SLSA Liveblog 5: Nonhuman Scales of Sense (Jennifer Rhee)

“The Anti-Robot Proprioception of Simon Penny’s Petit Mal,” SLSA (”Nonhuman”), Milwaukee, September 27–29, 2012
distressing video about Big Dog being used in military applications (Boston Dynamics)
slavish subservience to humans, robot is kicked
Suchman: a different configuration would require much greater imagination and a radical change in our collective sense of what’s worth a headline
trying to find robotic imaginaries in different political environments
Simon Penny’s Petit Mal, an autonomous robot work
Queer Phenomenology: Objects, Orientations, Others (Sara Ahmed)
objects need to have stories of their relations and histories of arrival
early robots such as Shaky didn’t fare well in real world situations
they inhabited worlds that were representational
Petit Mal moves haltingly and at times invades humans’ space
Petit Mal seeks to charm and surprise
Big Dog makes you afraid
Ahmed: contact >> opening of future between objects

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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

Friday, September 28, 2012

SLSA Liveblog 5: Nonhuman Scales of Sense (Jennifer Rhee)

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