dark ecology: for a logic of future existence (wellek lecture 1)
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A presentation accompanying Timothy Morton's first Wellek Lecture, University of California, Irvine, May 21, 2014.TRANSCRIPT
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Dark EcologyTimothy MortonFor a Logic of Future Coexistence
Progress means: humanity emerges from its spellbound state no longer under the spell of progress as well, itself nature, by becoming aware of its own indigenousness to nature and by halting the mastery over nature through which nature continues its mastery.
Theodor AdornoBeginning after the EndThe First ThreadEach outcry from the hunted HareA fibre from the Brain does tear
William BlakeWeird Urth
Norns
Turn, twist
A twist of fateA strange turnupStrange loop Anthropocene
Paul CrutzenEugene Stoermer
1784
Great Acceleration
Dipesh Chakrabarty a geophysical force on a planetary scale
An inconvenient Anthropocene The ocean's silver screen How I learned To stop worrying And love the term Anthropocene
Me .0. Species Where .0.= is in a loop withANTHROPOCENEAGRILOGISTICSTom Stoppard, Darkside (BBC, 2013)He says an action is a moral action only if the consequences are good. He says the consequences are good if they increase the sum of human happiness. We define happiness as a state of well-being, starting off with being alive instead of dead.Ethics man is a utilitarian.
The Three Axioms1. Thou shalt not violate the law of noncontradiction. 3. Existing is always better than any quality of existing. 2. Existing means to be constantly present.
The Three Axioms2. Existing means to be constantly present. Metaphysics of presenceThe Three Axioms3. (Human) existing is always better than any quality of existing, which is now defined as accidents, not substance. being alive instead of deadNature = AgrilgosticsPrisoners DilemmaDerek Parfit
Periodic cyclingJan Zalasiewicz
>> tipping point(1784, 1945)= AnthropoceneSpeak to Me / Breathe (In the Air) [Darkside]Tom Stoppard & Pink FloydTom Stoppard & Pink FloydDarkside (A BBC Play for Radio Incorporating "The Dark Side of the Moon" By Pink Floyd)2013-11-22T08:00:[email protected] 2013 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Pink Floyd Music Ltd / BBC2014-01-29 21:07:27Warner:isrc:GB01A1300594