Philosophy and ecology after the end of the world posthumanities, by timothy morton. In ballroom marfas hyperobjects, the scale of ecological. Moving fluidly between philosophy, science, literature, visual and conceptual art, and popular culture, the book argues that hyperobjects show that the end of the world has already occurred in the sense that concepts such as world, nature, and even environment are no longer a meaningful horizon against which human events take place. Hyperobjects available for download and read online in other formats. Available on kindle ebook and can be read on any device with the free kindle app. Crucially, the relations between buddhism and science, nature and culture, are examined in the fusion of a single vision. Ranging widely in eighteenthcentury through contemporary philosophy, culture, and history, he explores the value of art in imagining environmental projects for the future. Using darwin and contemporary discoveries in life sciences as root texts, morton describes a. On the history of the ecosystem concept, the relationship between tansley, phillips, clements, and smuts, as well as an ecological scientists reading of the philosophical issues at play see golley, a history of the ecosystem concept in ecology, 834. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading hyperobjects.
Morton argues that hyperobjects create an ecological awareness far beyond normal human comprehension. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read hyperobjects. A relentless torrent of commentary that presents challenges to most contemporary scholarship on both. To begin with, the book is impossible to categorize wonderfully so.
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