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Hyperobjects 2.0:
Oil Remix
Timothy Morton
diatoms, forms of plankton that gave rise to oil
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The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed
Gerard Manley Hopkins
By coming to terms with an increasing range
of objects, human beings do not become
nihilistic princes of darkness, but actually themost sincere creatures the earth has ever
seen
Graham Harman, Guerilla Metaphysics, 247
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NOAA
1. Dancing aboutArchitecture
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Object-Oriented Ontology
(OOO)
realism(panpsychism)
withdrawal
real objects sensual objects
(AI and anti-AI theory)
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Object-Oriented Ontology
(OOO)
Malkovichism
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2. Grey Goo
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Martin Heidegger, Bestand
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Martin Heidegger, Bestand
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Martin Heidegger, Bestand
Edward Burtynsky, Manufactured Landscapes
dir. Jennifer Baichwal (2006)
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3. The End of the World
My Bloody Valentine, Only Shallow
Loveless (Creation, 1992)
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miasma
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message
contact
context
code
addresser addressee
Roman Jakobson
phatic statements
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Aristotle
Suppose, for instance, that in the season of the
Cynosure [the Dog Days of summer] arctic cold
were to prevail, this we would regard as anaccident, whereas, if there were a sweltering
heatwave, we would not. And this is because
the latter, unlike the former, is always or for the
most part the case.
Metaphysics, Epsilon 2, tr. Hugh Lawson-
Tancred (Penguin, 1999), 1589
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http://chartsgraphs.wordpress.com/tag/climate-trends/
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
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vanadium porphyrin
from petroleumachlorophyll a
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NOAA
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there is no such thing as a horizonGraham Harman, Tool-Being
(Open Court, 2002), p. 155
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The Three Timescales
1) Frightening timescale
2) Horrifying timescale
3) Petrifying timescale
Several hundred years
Thirty thousand years
One hundred thousand years
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4. Hyperobjects
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Is the truth [of no-self] depressing? Some may find it so. But
I find it liberating, and consoling. When I believed that my
existence was [a deep further fact, distinct from physicaland psychological continuity, and a fact that must be all-or-
nothing], I seemed imprisoned in myself. My life seemed
like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every
year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I
changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared.
I now live in the open air. There is still a difference between
my life and the lives of other people. But that difference is
less. Other people are closer. I am less concerned about
the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the livesof others.
Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons
(Oxford, 1984), 281
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(1) If you both betray each other you will receive
five years in jail.
(2) If one of you betrays and the other is silent,the betrayed one will receive ten years in jail.
(3) If you both remain silent, you will each get
six months for a minor charge.
The Prisoners Dilemma
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The Strange Stranger
Joseph Jastrow,
Duck-rabbit illusion
Jacques Derrida, larrivant
OOO, object
The future future
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5. Hyperviscosity
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Banksy
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viscosity
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Comora Tolliver, Pod
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