tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post3426391254382156721..comments2024-03-28T09:51:55.365-06:00Comments on ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Hyperobject AllergiesTimothy Mortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05067377804366363020noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post-54844715566420474532011-05-09T17:46:52.883-05:002011-05-09T17:46:52.883-05:00Depends on who's "sensual causality"...Depends on who's "sensual causality" we're talking about here Tim.<br /><br />If we're talking about Tom Sparrow's idea of sensuality 'all the way down', then yes, I agree. <br /><br />I happen to agree with Tom (if I read him correctly) that all interactions can be understood as sensual - only that I posit sensuality as ontologically continuous with all the other actual properties that objects (assemblages) intrinsically are. <br /><br />For me the sensual is not as a cognitive or metaphysical fire-wall sheltering an object's 'real' essence, but an immanent and emanating feature of its actual constitution. <br /><br />I grant you that I tend to read Harman in ways that he suggests are inaccurate to some extent, but I would defend myself by noting that it is the rhetorical strength on objectological discourse that concerns me most. <br /><br />If “real objects” are <i>completely</i> withdrawn then the ‘real’ Tim Morton wouldn’t be so affected by the hyperobject of global warming, correct? Where is the vicar in being allergic?Michael-https://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post-86757803110289422492011-05-09T17:10:59.216-05:002011-05-09T17:10:59.216-05:00Michael, sensual causality is much more intimate t...Michael, sensual causality is much more intimate than you assume...Timothy Mortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05067377804366363020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post-29927025611413467872011-05-09T16:58:01.661-05:002011-05-09T16:58:01.661-05:00I wonder Tim, if your intense bodily reaction to t...I wonder Tim, if your intense bodily reaction to that particular hyperobject might suggest to you just how 'deep' objects can affect each other? I mean how can we say that the object called Tim Morton and the hyperobject (assemblage) called ‘global warming’ don’t actually ‘touch’? Isn’t your ‘real essence’, in some sense, exposed and augmented by a <i>direct but partial</i> interaction (partial as in not all aspects of global warming are impacting you personally and completely) with that particular hyperobject? <br /><br />Or, simply stated: what about allergies allows us to posit them as merely sensual and not an aspect of your integral or ‘real’ beingness in the world?Michael-https://www.blogger.com/profile/17137291506357159071noreply@blogger.com