“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Friday, July 8, 2016

Jeff VanderMeer on Me

Really nice piece on Hyperobjects.

2 comments:

John T. Maher said...

So mellifluous 'twas wordsmithed by dwarves in Aasgard for sure and not the Marvel Comix sort

For 30 years there has been a nascent but un-comprehending comprehensibility of something akin and akimbo to Hyperobjects in American letters as "the airborne toxic event" (in H terms 'ungalublischelueftische-giftischese-ereignis'?) but the ability of the hyperobjects concept to expand thinking and comprehension, to world the unworldy, and allow us to exist inside a hyperobject or multiple ones is so much more

We like Van der Meer's (by the water in nomen est omen nomenclature) and TM but I also invoke a bit of parody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl_NpdAy3WY

Julie said...

Could Donald Trump be considered an Hyperobject? Or Trumpism?