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Hyperobjects : philosophy and ecology after the end of the world /

"Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Morton, Timothy, 1968-
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Colección:Posthumanities ; 27.
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505 0 |a A Quake in Being: An Introduction to Hyperobjects -- Part I. What Are Hyperobjects? -- Viscosity -- Nonlocality -- Temporal Undulation -- Phasing -- Interobjectivity -- Part II. The Time of Hyperobjects -- The End of the World -- Hypocrisies -- The Age of Asymmetry. 
520 |a "Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls "hyperobjects"-- entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is in the first place. In this book, Morton explains what hyperobjects are and their impact on how we think, how we coexist with one another and with nonhumans, and how we experience our politics, ethics, and art. Moving fluidly between philosophy, science, literature, visual and conceptual art, and popular culture, the book argues that hyperobjects show that the end of the world has already occurred in the sense that concepts such as world, nature, and even environment are no longer a meaningful horizon against which human events take place. Instead of inhabiting a world, we find ourselves inside a number of hyperobjects, such as climate, nuclear weapons, evolution, or relativity. Such objects put unbearable strains on our normal ways of reasoning." -- Publisher's website. 
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