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    Timothy Morton is a philosopher known for his work in object-oriented ontology and ecological thought. He has authored several books on topics related to ecology, food/consumerism, and object-oriented philosophy since 1994. Morton's work has been influenced by philosophers such as Graham Harman, Gilbert Simondon, and Jane Bennett. He argues that objects withdraw from complete understanding and influence each other in complex ways beyond human perception or control.

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    Timothy Morton is a philosopher known for his work in object-oriented ontology and ecological thought. He has authored several books on topics related to ecology, food/consumerism, and object-oriented philosophy since 1994. Morton's work has been influenced by philosophers such as Graham Harman, Gilbert Simondon, and Jane Bennett. He argues that objects withdraw from complete understanding and influence each other in complex ways beyond human perception or control.

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    Timothy Morton is a philosopher known for his work in object-oriented ontology and ecological thought. He has authored several books on topics related to ecology, food/consumerism, and object-oriented philosophy since 1994. Morton's work has been influenced by philosophers such as Graham Harman, Gilbert Simondon, and Jane Bennett. He argues that objects withdraw from complete understanding and influence each other in complex ways beyond human perception or control.

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    Timothy Morton - 1968-Present - http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.

    com

    Publications

    1994 - Shelly and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World

    2000 - Radical Food - The Culture and Politics of Eating and Drinking

    2000 - The Poetics of Spice - Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic

    2002 - Mary Shelleys Frankenstein: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

    2004 - Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite: Eating Romanticism

    2007 - Ecology Without Nature

    2010 - The Ecological Thought

    2013 - Realist Magic - http://openhumanitiespress.org/realist-magic.html

    2013 - Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World



    Influences

    Graham Harman Gilbert Simondon

    Iain Hamilton Grant Alfred North Whitehead

    Quentin Meillassoux William James

    Jane Bennet Charles Peirce

    Bruno Latour Friedrich Schelling

    Gilles Deleuze Aristotle

    The more we know about a strange stranger, the more she (he, it) withdraws. Objects withdraw such that
    other objects never adequately capture but only (inadequately) translate them. This doesnt simply
    mean that there is more to a glass of water than my drinking it. It means that even if I could exhaust every
    single aspect of the glass of water (melting it, smashing it, evaporating it, shooting its silicon atoms
    around a particle accelerator, writing a story about it, pretending its a glass of liquid gold, ignoring it), it
    would still withdraw
    Tim Morton -Here Comes Everything: The Promise of Object Oriented Ontology
    .
    Meanwhile beneath this ceaseless argument, reality is churning. Even as the philosophy of language and
    its supposedly reactionary opponents both declare victory, the arena of the world is packed with diverse
    objects, their forces unleashed and mostly unloved. Red billiard ball smacks green billiard ball. Snow
    akes glitter in the light that cruelly annihilates them; damaged submarines rust along the ocean oor. As
    our emerges from mills and blocks of limestone are compressed by earthquakes, gigantic mushrooms
    spread in the Michigan forest. While human philosophers bludgeon each other over the very possibility of
    access to the world, sharks bludgeon tuna sh, and icebergs smash into coastlines. All of these entities
    roam across the cosmos, inicting blessings and punishments on everything they touch, perishing without
    a trace or spreading their powers further, as if a million animals had broken free from a zoo in some
    Tibetan cosmology. . . . Will philosophy continue to lump together monkeys, tornadoes, diamonds, and
    oil under the single heading of that-which-lies-outside?
    Graham Harman - Object Oriented Philosophy
    Harmans object-oriented sublime uses a form of ekphrasis, ultra-vivid description [...] Longinus
    praised ekphrasis for evoking the sublime. Burkean and Kantian sublimity are both about reactions in
    the subject. Burke locates this reaction in the power of the object, while Kant locates it in the freedom
    of the subject. But these are just two sides of the same correlationist coin. Longinus, in contrast, is
    talking about intimacy with an alien presence: the sublime is what evokes this proximity of the alien.
    The ekphrastic object makes us see ourselves as objects traversedtranslated by others. Longinian
    ekphrasis is not about the reaction of the (human) subject, but about rhetorical modes as affective-
    contemplative techniques for summoning the alien.
    Timothy Morton - Here Comes Everything: The Promise of Object Oriented Ontology

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