Saturday, September 30, 2017
Come to This in London on Friday!
It's a thing by me about global warming and how to live it...it's in Shoreditch. Should be really fun!
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Monday, September 25, 2017
I'll be Talking at the Serpentine Marathon
...wow, the title is such perfect timing for Humankind: “Guest, Ghost, Host, Machine”?! They could have been chapter titles!
London, October 7!
The description is ace:
London, October 7!
The description is ace:
The 2017 Marathon brings together artists, scientists, activists, engineers, poets, sociologists, philosophers, filmmakers, writers, anthropologists, theologians and musicians to consider the advent of ‘artificial intelligence’, consciousness, interspecies cooperation, machines, trans-humanism and non-linear time.
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Next Up
Stockholm next week for a landscape architecture organization.
Week after that, London. I'm talking with Penguin about my stuff (wow they're so professional, they're for real and there's a reason why they're the best), and doing a thing for the band Test Dept. and something for Hans Ulrich Obrist's 2017 marathon at the Serpentine. Those things are on Saturday.
And I'm doing a lecture on global warming and morality and politics and stuff. Details to follow!
Week after that, London. I'm talking with Penguin about my stuff (wow they're so professional, they're for real and there's a reason why they're the best), and doing a thing for the band Test Dept. and something for Hans Ulrich Obrist's 2017 marathon at the Serpentine. Those things are on Saturday.
And I'm doing a lecture on global warming and morality and politics and stuff. Details to follow!
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Tim Answers an Email
Boy oh boy I answered it about nine months late! I'm so busy...
Anyway I thought you might like these brief answers. Questions are as they appear in the email:
1, In relation to OOO what connections do you think there are with the new ideas that we are now in an Anthropocene Epoch?
Well, we are aware of gigantic entities whose data is obviously different from what they are, which is the basic OOO insight. Things don’t coincide with thing data. It’s just that the hyperobjects (such as climate, biosphere…) are big enough for us to be able to know this intuitively.
2, What is your thinking on land fill ? and how in your opinion does that contribute to this environmental change?
Not much! I haven’t yet. That doesn’t mean I shouldn’t in future.
3, What is your opinion on humans having a greater connection with materialistic object around them, than they now have with the earth that supports them?
Unfortunately there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism. Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril. See Dark Ecology.
4, Is it purely down to capitalism, our materialistic wants and the rate at which this is growing that is causing these changes?
No. Neanderthals would have loved coca cola zero and there are soviet carbon emissions, still in effect as I observed in Arctic Russia.
5, what is your opinion on the Gaia theory ?
It’s a form of mechanism in disguise in which trees, humans and bacteria (and everything) become replaceable components of a whole based on all that’s wrong with religion. See my new book Humankind.
6, How do you think artists and what they use help with drawing attention to the world around them? Do you know of any that are doing this particularly well?
Art does more than that. Art is (from) the future. Art olds open the possibility that things can be different. Gosh there are so many amazing ones I don’t know where to start! I’m working on two hyperobjects exhibitions this year, one in Texas, one in Barcelona.
Anyway I thought you might like these brief answers. Questions are as they appear in the email:
1, In relation to OOO what connections do you think there are with the new ideas that we are now in an Anthropocene Epoch?
Well, we are aware of gigantic entities whose data is obviously different from what they are, which is the basic OOO insight. Things don’t coincide with thing data. It’s just that the hyperobjects (such as climate, biosphere…) are big enough for us to be able to know this intuitively.
2, What is your thinking on land fill ? and how in your opinion does that contribute to this environmental change?
Not much! I haven’t yet. That doesn’t mean I shouldn’t in future.
3, What is your opinion on humans having a greater connection with materialistic object around them, than they now have with the earth that supports them?
Unfortunately there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism. Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril. See Dark Ecology.
4, Is it purely down to capitalism, our materialistic wants and the rate at which this is growing that is causing these changes?
No. Neanderthals would have loved coca cola zero and there are soviet carbon emissions, still in effect as I observed in Arctic Russia.
5, what is your opinion on the Gaia theory ?
It’s a form of mechanism in disguise in which trees, humans and bacteria (and everything) become replaceable components of a whole based on all that’s wrong with religion. See my new book Humankind.
6, How do you think artists and what they use help with drawing attention to the world around them? Do you know of any that are doing this particularly well?
Art does more than that. Art is (from) the future. Art olds open the possibility that things can be different. Gosh there are so many amazing ones I don’t know where to start! I’m working on two hyperobjects exhibitions this year, one in Texas, one in Barcelona.
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Friday, September 8, 2017
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