dark ecology
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A presentation accompanying a talk given at the second annual Cultures of Energy Symposium, Rice University, April 20 2013.TRANSCRIPT
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Dark EcologyTim Morton
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IntroductionIn which I drone on about my pet peeve
Larry Butz, Rice University
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RNA world
“DNA-ocene”
“Bacteriocene”
Asteroid extinction event
Anthropocene
Concentric Temporalities
No Metalanguage
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Agrilogistics
Tenniel
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Everything is a Field
Tenniel
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Trying to get rid of the loop is the loop
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Trying to get rid of the loop is the loop
A=A
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Trying to get rid of the loop is the loop
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Dialetheia vs LNC
TarskiMetalanguageMetaphysics Γ
This sentence is false
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Back to the Future
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Signs of Progress
Romantic irony (narrator discovers she is the protagonist)Hypocrisy vs cynicismAllergy The uncanny
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Signs of Progress
If a time machine could serve up to you your 200 million greats grandfather, you would eat him with sauce tartare and a slice of lemon. He was a fish. Yet you are connected to him by an unbroken line of intermediate ancestors, every one of whom belonged to the same species as its parents and its children . . .
If your theology tells you that human beings should receive special respect and moral privilege as the only species that possesses a soul, you have to face up to the awkward question of when, in human evolution, the first ensouled baby was born. Richard Dawkins
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Fuzzy SetsRussell Set ParadoxSorites Paradox
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Happy Nihilism
vs
Dark Nihilism
Hyperobjects Phenomenon–thing gap (Kant)
Miasma Meontic nothing(nothingness)
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Trickster
Accelerationism
Hyperobjects Phenomenon–thing gap (Kant)
Miasma Meontic nothing(nothingness)
Let the deterritorialization of Earth commence!
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Phenomenological reduction of ecological awareness
Guilt << Shame << Melancholia << Sadness << Joy