ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: I Shall Give the Wellek Lectures

Sunday, March 23, 2014

I Shall Give the Wellek Lectures

The Wellek Lectures are the Gifford Lectures of theory, so I'm utterly delighted that I shall be giving them this year. I'm deeply honored to have been invited by UC Irvine to join the company of

Jacques Derrida
Hélène Cixous
Peter Sloterdijk
Jean Baudrillard
Angela Davis
Jean-François Lyotard
Judith Butler
Louis Marin
Gayatri Spivak
Wolfgang Iser
Étienne Balibar
Donna Haraway
Murray Krieger
Rosalind Krauss
Perry Anderson
Geoffrey Hartman
Edward Said
Joan Scott
Ngūgī wa Thiong'o
Harold Bloom
Achille Mbembe
Fredric Jameson
J. Hillis Miller
Elizabeth Grosz
Frank Kermode
Rosalyn Deutsche
David Harvey
Evelyn Fox Keller
Homi Bhabha
Paul Gilroy
Talal Asad
Harry Harootunian

Columbia publishes the lectures, as you can see here. There are some very important books in that series, such as Derrida's Memoires for Paul de Man.

There are three lectures. They'll be in May (21, 22, 23), at UC Irvine's Humanities Gateway.

The topic is something I now call ecognosis. I shall be reading the entire book in a series of three lectures.

Thanks to all who invited me. This was a wonderfully galvanizing moment for me, as it coincided with my having realized that I knew, finally, how to write this book, which once was Dark Ecology.

4 comments:

Alan said...: Splendid, Tim, Very proud of your achievement. You'll startle your audience with your original ideas and prose. Alan Weinberg; May 17, 2014 at 1:14 PM
Alan said...: Splendid Tim. Great honour, yes. You'll startle your audience with your original ideas and brilliant style. Alan Weinberg; May 17, 2014 at 1:16 PM
Anonymous said...: Couldn't seem to find it on the CUP website, please reupload the link to your lectures?; January 13, 2015 at 9:44 AM
Anonymous said...: @misanthropicanthropologist I think I found a link to it here: https://archive.org/details/03DarkEcologyForALogicOfFutureCoexistenceTheWellekLectures3; March 22, 2015 at 2:29 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

Sunday, March 23, 2014

I Shall Give the Wellek Lectures

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