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Item A Habitat for Hyposubjects(Rice Design Alliance, 2022) Morton, Timothy; Boyer, DominicItem Ecology without the Present(Edinburgh University Press, 2012) Morton, TimothyItem Ep. #010 - Timothy Morton(Cultures of Energy, Rice University, 2016-04-08) Boyer, Dominic (podcast host); Howe, Cymene (podcast host); Morton, TimothyCymene and Dominic talk drug awareness to open this week’s episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast and then (6:10) share laughs and ecological thoughts with their marvelous and occasionally hallucinatory colleague, Tim Morton, author of Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia University Press, 2016). Tim explains how his brain works, why object oriented ontology isn’t your granddaddy’s philosophy, how ambiguity is a signal of reality in the Anthropocene, and what we need to put into the drinking water to save the world. We talk about how comedy is the same as thinking, why Interstellar is ecological and sooo much more. In a dramatic last-minute reveal, we also learn Tim’s pick to direct Dark Ecology: The Movie.Item Ep. #087 - Hurricane Harvey (feat. Timothy Morton)(Cultures of Energy, Rice University, 2017-08-27) Boyer, Dominic (podcast host); Howe, Cymene (podcast host); Morton, TimothyOn today’s emergency shelter in place edition of the Cultures of Energy podcast we speak to Timothy Morton to help process the Hurricane Harvey landfall and catastrophic flooding that Houston and SE Texas is experiencing right now. We muse on hyperobjects, human-nonhuman solidarities, hurricanes vs tornados, the optimal Harvey soundtrack, Charlottesville, samsara, denial, neoliberalism, storm porn, disasters vs catastrophes, and taking responsibility for the things we understand. It’s a little philosophical experiment from inside the storm. Sending love and support to our fellow Houstonians on what has shaped up to be our city’s most challenging day ever.Item New Age Romanticism and the Afterlives of William Blake(2019-06-13) Hagan, Jade; Morton, TimothyThis project examines the afterlives of British Romanticism in the American and British New Age movements that emerged in the 1970s and ‘80s, in relation to Romantic-era and twentieth-century challenges to received ideas about materialism and agency. It explores the ways that Romantic literature and art—especially, that of William Blake—took on a new life in and through counter cultural and New Age literature and culture. Specifically, I argue that the British and American New Age movements represent a reinvention of Romanticism with a distinctly Blakean flavor. Long cast as the odd man out of Romanticism, Blake stands as the exemplary figure of what I call “New Age Romanticism,” an essentially ecological worldview oriented toward revaluing what Adorno called the “primacy of the object in subjective experience,” and recovering excluded forms of knowledge and practice. Romanticism emerges here not, as we have often thought, as a historical movement concerned primarily with individual subjectivity or historical difference, but as a repeatable set of practices, attitudes, and cultural artifacts for channeling alternative, even alien, modes of being in the service of imagining otherwise unimaginable futures. This comparison between the Romantic period and late twentieth century also recognizes enduring anxieties around certain issues with Romantic-era roots—secularization; the ecological crisis; the rise of consumerism, urbanism, and new technologies; and shifting conceptions of subjectivity, politics, and community—that challenge the hierarchies and chronologies of Romanticism and our theories of modernity. In examining how the New Age resituated Blake and Romanticism, I explore the surprising ways that that the ideas associated with New Age Romanticism overlap with and diverge from the insights of Romanticist and Blake studies, ecological theory and new materialisms, aesthetics, and critical interest in spectrality, hauntology, and mediumship. In its demonstration of the ways in which Romantic texts, ideas, and styles became effective material and historical forces that continue to animate our present-day social and critical debates, this project not only recasts Blake in particular as an ecological and socially engaged figure, but also demonstrates the extent to which we have never quite left the Romantic period.Item Ontological Laughter: Comedy as Experimental Possibility Space(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016) Morton, TimothyItem Subjunctivity(MDPI, 2024) Morton, Timothy; Balds, TreenaWe explore the value of the subjunctive mood as a template for understanding ethical action and the theological ontology that undergirds it. We do this by examining the use of a strange but very precisely used word in the writing of a theologian and minister and poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "silly." We do so in the name of exploring the value of contingency, accidentality and abjection to a general theory of ecological thought.Item The Oedipal Logic of Ecological Awareness(University of New South Wales, 2012) Morton, TimothyThe Anthropocene is the radical intersection of human history and geological time. Humans have belatedly realised that they have become a geophysical force on a planetary scale. This creeping realisation has an Oedipal logic, that is to say, it is a strange loop in which one level of activity—industrial agriculture and the swiftly ensuing industrial revolutionﾗcrosses into an entirely new level of planetary force and, following from that, an uncanny recognition of this force. This essay argues that the Oedipal logic is embedded in the technical, logistical and philosophical framework of agriculture as such. Indeed, the Theban plays (of which Oedipus Tyrannus is one) dwell on the fact of agricultural society as a form of uncanny existence. This essay argues that the principal reason for the uncanniness is the reduction of being to non-contradiction. Exit strategies from this logic (and its concomitant logistics) cannot cleave to a view of beings that is reductionist in any sense. Thus the potential for using Deleuze and Guattari to exit modernity is limited. What is required is a deconstruction of existing (agri)cultures and logics, rather than an attempt to push past them or avoid them, since as in the story of Oedipus, the attempt to push past and avoid is precisely what brings about the cataclysm.Item Thinking the Charnel Ground (The Charnel Ground Thinking): Auto-Commentary and Death in Esoteric Buddhism(Department of English, Brooklyn College, CUNY, 2013) Morton, Timothy