Ecology without the Present

Tim Morton

I learned a new word today. Atom bomb. It was like a white light in the sky. Like God taking a photograph.

Empire of the Sun (movie)

Part 1: Melancholy Ecology

Toxoplasma gondii

Object-Oriented Ontology

reductionism, holism, anthropocentrism, biocentrism

Graham Harman, Levi Bryant, Ian Bogost

Melancholy Coexistence

Subjectivity Abnegation of abject

Kristeva

The Time of Hyperobjects

Entities that are massively distributed in time and space

Global warming, biosphere, evolution, Earth

standing in the place of the death drive

The RiftTime flows from objects

Essence

Appearance

I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition

Emerson, “Experience”

The Rift

Appearance The past

“A precipitate of abandoned object cathexes”Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id

memoria

arche-writing

The Rift

Essence the future

openness

withdrawal

Fragility

Hamartia lame

halting

The Riftchōrismos

Essence

Appearance

Death drive

RNA World

Standing in the Place of the Death Drive

Seest thou, beside the wintry torrent's course, how the trees that yield to it save every twig, while the stiff-necked perish root and branch?

Sophocles, Antigone

If I could meet my maker, I would tell her just one thing: I wish that she had created me so that I could die.

Ramin Bahrani, Plastic Bag

Part 2: A Horrible Gravity

Hyperobjects

Black hole

Nuclear materials

Styrofoam

Biosphere

Solar System

Massively distributed in time and space

Hyperobjects

Viscosity

Nonlocality

Temporal undulation

Phasing

Interobjectivity

Properties

The Time of Hyperobjects

The End of the World

Hypocrisy

Weakness

Lameness

Age of Asymmetry

Anthropocene

Nature, lifeworld, Weltanschauung, world-picture

Gesamkunstwerk, rendering, simulation, Romanticism

system, ecosystem, environment

The ecological thought

1790

Anthropocene

“like God taking a photograph”

“I am become Death, shatterer of worlds”

The last god

Ontic givennessTrinity Test at 0.016 seconds

1945

Doom

Judgment, law faculty of judging, final judgment after the end of the world

Opinion (deeming)

Fate, destiny, death

Justice, judge

Ecology without the Present

Plutonium 239 24 100 years

The Three Timescales of Global Warming:

Horrifying 500 years (75%)

Terrifying 30 000 years (25%)

Petrifying 100 000 years (7%)

From objects flows what we call time

Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons

Nowness vs. present

Form is the past

hypokeimenon

“the precipitate of abandoned object cathexes”

Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id

Geotrauma

From objects flows what we call time

Ecology without the Present

Essence is the future

vs. substance–accidents model

Spacetime

Arrivant strange stranger

Il n’y a pas de hors-texte Derrida

The Rift

Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO)

Ecology without the Present

Essence is the future

Il n’y a pas de hors-texte Derrida

The Rift

“The gigantic shadows that futurity casts upon the present”

Percy Shelleyecomimesis

From objects flows what we call time

Ecology without the Present

Ecology without the Present

Butoh

What constitutes pretense is that, in the end, you don’t know whether it’s pretense or not Jacques Lacan

Prosōpon Greek, “face”