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“there is something quite special about the recently discovered entities such as climate. these entities cause us to reflect on our very place on Earth and in the s clss="trms">cosmos>s” ss='lgc'>==> hyperobjects (“seem to force something on us”) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> i say every object does that, and it is not recentss='lgc'>: s clss="nms">s clss="nms">ajayebs> al makhlughats> is about the description of that force

hyperobjects ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Morton
<span clss="prgrph">-an object that is “hyper” in s clss="trms">relations> to some other entity
span> <span clss="prgrph">-they are s clss="trms">viscs>ousss='lgc'>: they “stick” to beings that are involved with them
span> <span clss="prgrph">-they are “nonlocal” ss='lgc'>: local manifestation of hyperobject ss='lgc'>=/= hyperobject
span> <span clss="prgrph">-they exhibit their effects s clss="trms">inters>objectively ss='lgc'>: they can be detected in a space that consists of s clss="trms">inters>s clss="trms">relations>ships between s clss="trms">aesthets>ic properties of objects\
span> ss='lgc'>=/= apocalyptic environmentalism
ss='lgc'>=/= the possibility of transcendental leaps “outside” physical reality
ss='lgc'>=/= that we are “embedded” in a “lifes clss="trms">worlds>”

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high-dimrnsional phase space
invisible to humans for stretches of time

ss='lgc'>[<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]hypocrisy ss='lgc'><== the conditions of the impossibility of a ss='lgc'>[<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>s clss="trms">languages>= account for things while remaining uncontaminated by them, (ss='lgc'>~= an “outside”)
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (ss="ppl">Lacanian truthss='lgc'>:) “there is no s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>s clss="trms">languages>” ss='lgc'>=/= posts clss="trms">moderns>ism's “everything is a s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors>” ss='lgc'>=/= some s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors>s are better than others ss='lgc'>~= <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>there is nowhere to stand outside of things<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>
the time of hyperobjects is a time of hypocrisy ss='lgc'>=/= cynicism

ss='lgc'>[<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]weakness ss='lgc'><== the gap between s clss="trms">phenomens>on and thing

ss='lgc'>[<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]lameness ss='lgc'><== the fact that all entities are fragile

s clss="trms">imagis>nation asss='lgc'>:
sts clss="lsts lst1">•ss="ppl">Humess='lgc'>: a bundling of ass clss="trms">socis>ations
sts> sts clss="lsts lst1">•ss="ppl">Kantss='lgc'>: the possibility for synthetic judgments a s clss="trms">priors>i
sts> sts clss="lsts lst1">•object-oriented s clss="trms">ontos>logyss='lgc'>: immanence of thinking to the physical, radically displacing the human by insisting that my being is not everything it is cracked up to bess='lgc'>--the being of a paper cup is as profound as mine
sts>

which hyperobject you are caught in<span clss='qstn'>?span>

ss="large lg1" stl="font-size:137%"> image of s clss="trms">writs>ing ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> shy, retiring octopuses that squirt out a dissembling (mask, cloak, vortäuschen) ink as they withdraw into the s clss="trms">ontos>logical shadow


figure of <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>mill<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> (the characters and s clss="trms">techns>ologies and ideas of the ages mill around in a state of a mild, semiblissful confusion) ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="frds scrmbld">Eszters>'s vortex

my intimate impressions “personal"ss='lgc'> = footprints of hyperobjects, distorted as they always must be by the entity in which they make their mark

s clss="trms">situs>atedness is now a very uncanny place to be, like being the protagonist of a ss="ppl">Wordsworth s clss="trms">poes>m of a character in Blade Runner


<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>cool impersonality of the s clss="trms">scies>ntific s clss="trms">languages><strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> (now is deprived of its ideological status)


the concept of the ‘s clss="trms">worlds>’ is no longer operational
can we think environmentally without ss='thdf'>the idea of ‘the end of the s clss="trms">worlds>’<span clss='qstn'>?span>

(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Morton asking for) a geophilosophy that doesn't think simply in terms of human events and human significance

ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Mortonss='lgc'>: global warming ss='lgc'>=/= climate change
if one takes the ‘climate change’ as a substitute for ‘global warming’ is like “cultural change” as a substitute for Renaissance, or “change in living conditions” as a substitute for Holocaust


acronyms, abbreviationsss='lgc'>:
ss="acrnms">dialoc s>دیالوکs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> decrease in appropriate levels of concern
ss="acrnms">tomas s>توماسs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> terrain of media and the s clss="trms">socis>opolitical realm
ss="acrnms">cohhatg s>کوهاجs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> coincidence of human s clss="trms">histos>ry and terrestrial geology
ss="acrnms">hhatg s>حجs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> human s clss="trms">histos>ry and terrestrial geology
ss="acrnms">pb s>پی بیs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> philosophy's bandwidth
ss="acrnms">sdwa s>صدواs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> substances decorated with accidents ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->
ss="acrnms">ldwa s>لدواs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> lumps decorated with accidents ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> featureless lumps, and those things have accidental properties, like cupcakes decorated with colored sprinkles (arayesh s>آرایشs>) ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> this thinking still continues, despite the fact that ‘thought has als clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y made it irrelevant’ ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss="acrnms">thamii s>تامیs>, (ss='thdf'>for example s clss="trms">birds>s for ss="ppl">Attar are merely decorative features of ss="ppl">Attar's s clss="trms">socis>al, psychic, and philosophical space)
ss="acrnms">soth s>صوثs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> speculating outside of the human
ss="acrnms">sim s>سیمs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> small island of meaning
ss="acrnms">etimom s>اتیمومs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> everything is made of mind
ss="acrnms">hhbn s>هبنs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> hand-holding benevolent s clss="trms">narrats>or (-which is vanished)
(auto) ss="acrnms">cad s>کدs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (automatic) comforting s clss="trms">aesthets>ic distances
ss="acrnms">iockat ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> intentional objects commonly known as thoughts
ss="acrnms">atot s>آتوs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (you only ever perceive your particular) s clss="trms">anthrops>os clss="trms">morphs>ic s clss="trms">translats>ions of things
ss="acrnms">ejich s>جیشs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> exhilarating jump into cognitive hyperspace ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> displacement that Copernicus or ss="ppl">Derrida does
ss="acrnms">foe ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> fantasies of embeddedness ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- s clss="trms">phenomens>ology ss='lgc'><== grounding of ss="ppl">Kant (begining in 1900)ss='lgc'>]
ss="acrnms">avaa s>اواs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> a vertiginous antis clss="trms">literas>l s clss="trms">abyss>s
ss="acrnms">iwen ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> intimacy with existing nonhumans
ss="acrnms">mok ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> mathematization of knowing (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss="ppl">Descartes, ss="ppl">Newton) ss='lgc'>==> hiding philosophical and ideological decisions made in acts of knowing ss='lgc'>=/= s clss="trms">ontos>logy (as a vital and contested political terrain)
ss="acrnms">icad ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ideology of “the s clss="trms">consums>er” and its “s clss="trms">demands>s” (that capital then “meets”) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> adventure of s clss="trms">moderns>ity
ss="acrnms">fvod ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> from the viewpoint of “objective” description (a bad way of explicating the objects that are als clss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y here)
ss="acrnms">toc ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> troops of critique
ss="acrnms">towwk s>توکs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ‘s clss="trms">techns>ology of what we know’ (s clss="trms">techns>iques that decide the s clss="trms">differens>ces between ‘what we know’ and ‘what is’. ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Morton's hyperobject is a ss="acrnms">towwk)
ss="acrnms">usoc ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> uncanny strangeness of existence (work of ss="ppl">Heidegger)
ss="acrnms">lawot ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (something is) ‘laying around in the workshop of thinking’ (let's reuse what appears to be broken ss="acrnms">lawot)

visistss='lgc'> = visit ss='lgc'>+ resist

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cors clss="trms">relations>ismss='lgc'>: ss='thdf'>the notion that philosophy can only talk within a narrow bandwidth, restricted to the human-s clss="trms">worlds> correlate ss='lgc'>: meaning is only possible between a human mind and ‘what it thinks'ss='lgc'> = its “objects” (flimsy s>شل و ولs> and tenuous s>رفيقs> as they are) ss='lgc'>~-> the light on in the fridge when you close the door
<span clss="prgrph">-ss="ppl">Heidegger (towering through) is a cors clss="trms">relations>ist who asserts that without Dasein, it makes no sense whatsoever to talk of the truth of things, which for him implies their very existencess='lgc'>--for him idealism, not realism, holds the key to philosophy. (ss="ppl">Heidegger's tool-analysisss='lgc'>: when s clss="trms">s clss="trms">equips>s>mentss='lgc'>--which for all intents and purposes could be anything at allss='lgc'>--is functioning, or “executing” ss='lgc'>[Vollzugss='lgc'>], it withdraws from access ss='lgc'>[Entzugss='lgc'>]; that it is only when a tool is broken that it seems to become s clss="trms">presens>t-at-hand ss='lgc'>[vorhandenss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> is this what s clss="frds scrmbld">Femkes> is proposing to s clss="nms">apasss><span clss='qstn'>?span>)
span>
ss="ppl">Descartes uncritically importing the very scholasticism his work undermined

ss='lgc'>[<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]s clss="trms">epistems>ologyss='lgc'>:
sts clss="lsts lst1">•how can i know what there are (or are not) real things<span clss='qstn'>?span>
sts> sts clss="lsts lst1">•what gives me (or denies me) access to the real<span clss='qstn'>?span>
sts> sts clss="lsts lst1">•what defines the possibility of access<span clss='qstn'>?span>
sts> sts clss="lsts lst1">•what defines the possibility of possibility<span clss='qstn'>?span>
sts>
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sts clss="lsts lst1">•Einstein discovered a rippling, flowing spacetime
sts> sts clss="lsts lst1">•Tarkovsky discovered the ‘s clss="trms">sensus>ous s clss="trms">materis>al of film stock’ ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss="acrnms">ss clss="trms">socis>
sts> sts clss="lsts lst1">•ss="ppl">Husserl discovered something strange about the objectsss='lgc'>: no s clss="trms">matters> how many times you turned around a cion, you never saw the other side as the other side ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the ss='at'>#coin had a dark side that was seemingly irreducible
sts>

ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Morton's (s clss="trms">techns>ology of what we know) hyperobject is his sense of an as clss="trms">syms>metry between the ins clss="trms">finits>e powers of cognition and the ins clss="trms">finits>e bening of things, yet he doesn't evoke descriptive practices, which could be helpfullss='lgc'>--he is missing something, heress='lgc'>: “the gap between s clss="trms">phenomens>on and thing yawns open, disturbing my sense of s clss="trms">presens>ce and being in the s clss="trms">worlds>.”
“ss='lgc'>[...ss='lgc'>] i cannot locate the gap between s clss="trms">phenomens>on and thing anywhere in my given, s clss="trms">phenomens>al, experiential, or indeed s clss="trms">scies>ntific space” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="frds scrmbld">Xiris>'s problem
he disagrees withss='lgc'>: (from ss="ppl">Plato up until ss="ppl">Hume and ss="ppl">Kant) that there is some kind of dotted line somewhere on a thing, saying “cut here” ss='lgc'>--so he cons clss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>desss='lgc'>: “things are themselves, but we can't point to them directly.” ss='lgc'>=/= nonres clss="trms">presens>tational theory, ss="ppl">ss="ppl">ss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart is much more useful. we can see ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Morton's taste for (a masculine) s clss="trms">sublims>e in modeling his hyperobjects

flat s clss="trms">ontos>logyss='lgc'>: there is hardly any s clss="trms">differens>ce between a person and a pincushion. and s clss="trms">relations>ships between them, ins clss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>ding s clss="trms">causas>l ones, must be vicarious (s>نيابتىs>) and hence s clss="trms">aesthets>ic in s clss="trms">naturs>e

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(no) realism that only bases its findings on “ontic” s clss="trms">datas>

s clss="trms">scies>ntific discoveries are necessarily based[...]