ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Thatcher Wins

Monday, July 13, 2015

Thatcher Wins

...really, really big. I can't quite believe the irony, which would be delicious if it were not so painful. Here it is:

Mrs. Thatcher's dream, which was to destroy socialist Europe--the dream for which she was prepared to quit being Prime Minister (and she really liked being Prime Minister)--has been fulfilled. Fulfilled by a European country. Fulfilled, in fact, by the European country whose mission was to bring everyone into closer political union via the backdoor of monetary union. The nation whose European ambitions were roundly opposed and associated with the ambitions of the past (WW2, WW1), by the Prime Minister who most channeled Churchill.

In brief:

Germany has done what Mrs. Thatcher only dreamed of.

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Anonymous said...: So who was being played after all? This is why it behooves us all to not jump to hasty conclusions based on our own dogma. Philosophy applied idealistically to real political situations is like cocaine, in a way. The most successful dealers are the ones who refrain as much as possible from sniffing it themselves.; July 13, 2015 at 10:49 AM

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

Monday, July 13, 2015

Thatcher Wins

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