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Hyperobjects
- Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Posthumanities)
- Narrated by: Dave Wright
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Summary
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.
Insisting that we have to reinvent how we think to even begin to comprehend the world we now live in, Hyperobjects takes the first steps, outlining a genuinely postmodern ecological approach to thought and action.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-07-17
Intesting Topic
This an interesting subject but it is quite a demanding book, in terms of language and content.
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- Hettie Judah
- 14-10-22
Why was this narrated by a robotic voice rather than Timothy Morton?
Why was this narrated by a robotic voice rather than Timothy Morton? It made it impossible to engage.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-06-19
Read by a computer
Or at least sounds like it...probably best to buy the actual book instead. Sad!
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- Anonymous User
- 15-09-19
Failed to communicate the concept
I feel as if there are some good concepts in this book but the author completely fails to communicate them. I came to this book after reading ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism ‘ by Shoshana Zuboff and ‘New Dark Age’ by James Bridle both of which mention this book.
The hyper object itself may be on a different dimension but the explanations should not be. Most of the time if feels as if the author actually doesn’t want the reader to understand the concepts at all and that writing the book is just an opportunity to cite the philosophers he’s read, the artists you’ve never heard of and the cool bands he listens to.
I gave this book one star for the image on the cover. The picture of the iceberg tells me more about hyper objects than anything the author has to say on the subject.
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- Leopold
- 05-04-21
Terrible
Morton doesn’t understand many of the concepts he’s talking about. The book reminded me of the Sokal Affair.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-03-20
Check the sample before purchasing!
I can't bare to listen to the narrator's voice, such a strange performance! Can't get through any amount of the book. It's a shame because I loved reading The Ecological Thought, might just have to buy the book instead. Definitely one to check the sample on before buying to see if you can listen to it.
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