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Being ecological / Timothy Morton.

Being ecological / Timothy Morton.
Summary:
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? Don't care about ecology? This book is for you.

Timothy 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 Bjoerk 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.
Author:
Morton, Timothy, 1968- author.
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Books
Subject Term:
Human ecology.

Human ecology -- Philosophy.

Human beings -- Effect of environment on.

Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
ISBN:

9780241274231
9780241274248

Physical Description:
x, 228 pages ; 18 cm.
Publication Date:
2018

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A book about ecology without information dumping, guilt inducing, or preaching to the choir.

Don't care about ecology? You think you don't, but you might all the same. Don't read ecology books? This book is for you.

Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that are out of date by the time they hit you. Slapping you upside the head to make you feel bad. Grabbing you by the lapels while yelling disturbing facts. Handwringing in agony about “What are we going to do?” This book has none of that. Being Ecological doesn't preach to the eco-choir. It's for you―even, Timothy Morton explains, if you're not in the choir, even if you have no idea what choirs are. You might already be ecological.

After establishing the approach of the book (no facts allowed!), Morton draws on Kant and Heidegger to help us understand living in an age of mass extinction caused by global warming. He considers the object of ecological awareness and ecological thinking: the biosphere and its interconnections. He discusses what sorts of actions count as ecological―starting a revolution? going to the garden center to smell the plants? And finally, in “Not a Grand Tour of Ecological Thought,” he explores a variety of current styles of being ecological―a range of overlapping orientations rather than preformatted self-labeling.

Caught up in the us-versus-them (or you-versus-everything else) urgency of ecological crisis, Morton suggests, it's easy to forget that you are a symbiotic being entangled with other symbiotic beings. Isn't that being ecological?

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Morton makes an admirable effort to expand the genre into something more appealing to a wide variety of readers...Instead of anxiously trying to troubleshoot all of the hypothetical ill-effects of proposed environmental action or policies – a futile effort in our complex and dynamic world – Morton gives us permission to embrace the uncertainty.

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If you're still just grooving along with Alan Watts and thinking that nature is wiggly, think again. Timothy Morton's flat ontology and his leveling of the uncanny valley contradict earlier clichés to open up new possibilities for conceptualizing a better future together. And, to tune a bit to the register of Being Ecological, it's all accomplished in a vivid discussion with excellent bookfeel.

―Nick Montfort, Professor of Digital Media, MIT; author of The Future

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press (March 9, 2018)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 216 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262038048

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262038041

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.38 x 0.81 x 8 inches

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Timothy B. Morton

One of the most influential philosophers on earth? Apparently: http://www.thebestschools.org/features/most-influential-living-philosophers/

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. They have collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Olafur Eliasson, Pharrell Williams and Justin Guariglia. 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 Hyposubjects: On Becoming Human (Open Humanities, 2021), All Art Is Ecological (Penguin, 2021), Spacecraft (Bloomsbury, 2021), 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), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), 8 other books and 270 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. Morton’s work has been translated into 11 languages. In 2014 they gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory.

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Twitter: @the_eco_thought

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A must read for every rational, thoughtful person in the world!

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Laura

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read!

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My lecturer recommended this book to me and it was definitely a wonderful read! Morton explores very deep topics in an accessible way so if you’re worried that philosophy isn’t your thing or don’t want to waste your time reading complicated philosophical texts, you honestly have nothing to worry about!! Don’t get me wrong, this is still a deeply fascinating philosophical text but everything is written in a very inclusive way and all topics are explained very well. Morton manages to be funny while also teaching us about climate change etc, which I imagine isn’t an easy task at all! Also the music/pop culture references make it so much more fun/enthralling to read. Overall, I recommend it to anyone :)

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Duncan Spence

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for anybody who thinks about ecology

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Most philosophy in English is translated out of German, French, Italian, Latin, Arabic, Greek and so forth. Morton's is possibly the best philosophy written in English since Wm James or maybe even Adam Smith and David Hume. The analysis spans twelve and a half thousand years, extending the origins of the current crisis of western intellectualising to the first domestic enclosures of Mesopotamia, to the moment when human beings turned from hunting and gathering to building fences round fields and manipulating crop production. Everybody should read this book.

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Dominikus Heil

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a ‚must read‘!!!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 20, 2021

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This book is a game changer in the ecological discourse. I do not understand why there is not more of a public discussion about this groundbreaking work. If you want to really understand the issue at stake with this central issue of our time, buy this book!

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Shedman

5.0 out of 5 stars Veer your brain in new directions

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 4, 2018

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Wonderfully challenging. Full of fascinating insights and concepts as slippery as fish. But a welcome change to so much ‘nature writing’ and very enjoyable.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning, cosy and uncanny. Morton is a genius.

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Stunning, cosy and uncanny. Morton is a genius. And it's short. Just go and read it. Then dissolve.

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