Being Ecological

Author: Timothy Morton Series: Pelican Books

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A fascinating guide to solving one of the world's most pressing subjects

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A fascinating guide to solving one of the world's most pressing subjects

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A fascinating guide to solving one of the world's most pressing subjectsDon't care about ecology? This book is for you. Morton sets out to show us that whether we know it or not, we already have the capacity and the will to change the way we understand the place of humans in the world, and our very understanding of the term 'ecology'. A cross-disciplinarian who has collaborated with everyone from Bj rk to Hans Ulrich Obrist, Morton is also a member of the object-oriented philosophy movement, a group of forward-looking thinkers who are grappling with modern-day notions of subjectivity and objectivity, while also offering fascinating new understandings of Heidegger and Kant. Calling the volume a book containing 'no ecological facts', Morton confronts the 'information dump' fatigue of the digital age, and offers an invigorated approach to creating a liveable future.

About the Author

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. They have collaborated with Bj rk, Laurie Anderson, 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 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), 11 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.

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Why is everything we think we know about ecology wrong? Is there really any difference between 'humans' and 'nature'? Does this mean we even have a future? Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University and has been called 'The Philosopher Prophet of the Anthropocene' ( Guardian ). He has collaborated with Bjrk, Haim Steinbach, Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist and written several influential books including Dark Ecology and Ecology without Nature , as well as 160 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food.