[...] of time

[trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>]hypocrisy <== the conditions of the impossibility of a [trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>]<trms class="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metatrms><trms class="trms">languagetrms>= account for things while remaining uncontaminated by them, (<tld>~tld>= an “outside”)
--> (Lacanian truth:) “there is no <trms class="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metatrms><trms class="trms">languagetrms>” =/= post<trms class="trms">moderntrms>ism's “everything is a <trms class="trms"><trms class="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metatrms>phortrms>” =/= some <trms class="trms"><trms class="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metatrms>phortrms>s are better than others <tld>~tld>= trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>there is nowhere to stand outside of thingstrcls class='strcls'>*trcls>
the time of hyperobjects is a time of hypocrisy =/= cynicism

[trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>]weakness <== the gap between <trms class="trms">phenomentrms>on and thing

[trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>]lameness <== the fact that all entities are fragile

tl="font-size:112%"> <trms class="trms">imagitrms>nation as:
ts class="lsts lst1">•Hume: a bundling of as<trms class="trms">socitrms>ations
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Kant: the possibility for synthetic judgments a <trms class="trms">priortrms>i
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•object-oriented <trms class="trms">ontotrms>logy: immanence of thinking to the physical, radically displacing the human by insisting that my being is not everything it is cracked up to be--the being of a paper cup is as profound as mine
ts>

which hyperobject you are caught intn'>?

image of <trms class="trms">writtrms>ing --> shy, retiring octopuses that squirt out a dissembling (mask, cloak, vortäuschen) ink as they withdraw into the <trms class="trms">ontotrms>logical shadow


figure of trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>milltrcls class='strcls'>*trcls> (the characters and <trms class="trms">techntrms>ologies and ideas of the ages mill around in a state of a mild, semiblissful confusion) =/= Eszter's vortex

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

<trms class="trms">situtrms>atedness is now a very uncanny place to be, like being the protagonist of a Wordsworth <trms class="trms">poetrms>m of a character in Blade Runner


trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>cool impersonality of the <trms class="trms">scietrms>ntific <trms class="trms">languagetrms>trcls class='strcls'>*trcls> (now is deprived of its ideological status)


the concept of the ‘<trms class="trms">worldtrms>’ is no longer operational
can we think environmentally without <thdf class='thdf'>the idea ofthdf> ‘the end of the <trms class="trms">worldtrms>’tn'>?

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

Morton: global warming =/= 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


tl="font-size:145%"> acronyms, abbreviations:
dialoc دیالوک --> decrease in appropriate levels of concern
tomas توماس --> terrain of media and the <trms class="trms">socitrms>opolitical realm
cohhatg کوهاج --> coincidence of human <trms class="trms">histotrms>ry and terrestrial geology
hhatg حج --> human <trms class="trms">histotrms>ry and terrestrial geology
pb پی بی --> philosophy's bandwidth
sdwa صدوا --> substances decorated with accidents -->
ldwa لدوا --> lumps decorated with accidents --> featureless lumps, and those things have accidental properties, like cupcakes decorated with colored sprinkles (arayesh آرایش) }--> this thinking still continues, despite the fact that ‘thought has al<trms class="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readtrms>y made it irrelevant’ --> thamii تامی, (<thdf class='thdf'>for examplethdf> <trms class="trms">birdtrms>s for Attar are merely decorative features of Attar's <trms class="trms">socitrms>al, psychic, and philosophical space)
soth صوث --> speculating outside of the human
sim سیم --> small island of meaning
etimom اتیموم --> everything is made of mind
hhbn هبن --> hand-holding benevolent <trms class="trms">narrattrms>or (-which is vanished)
(auto) cad کد --> (automatic) comforting <trms class="trms">aesthettrms>ic distances
iockat --> intentional objects commonly known as thoughts
atot آتو --> (you only ever perceive your particular) <trms class="trms">anthroptrms>o<trms class="trms">morphtrms>ic <trms class="trms">translattrms>ions of things
ejich جیش --> exhilarating jump into cognitive hyperspace --> displacement that Copernicus or Derrida does
foe --> fantasies of embeddedness [<-- <trms class="trms">phenomentrms>ology <== grounding of Kant (begining in 1900)]
avaa اوا --> a vertiginous anti<trms class="trms">literatrms>l <trms class="trms">abystrms>s
iwen --> intimacy with existing nonhumans
mok --> mathematization of knowing (--> Descartes, Newton) ==> hiding philosophical and ideological decisions made in acts of knowing =/= <trms class="trms">ontotrms>logy (as a vital and contested political terrain)
icad --> ideology of “the <trms class="trms">consumtrms>er” and its “<trms class="trms">demandtrms>s” (that capital then “meets”) --> adventure of <trms class="trms">moderntrms>ity
fvod --> from the viewpoint of “objective” description (a bad way of explicating the objects that are al<trms class="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readtrms>y here)
toc --> troops of critique
towwk توک --> ‘<trms class="trms">techntrms>ology of what we know’ (<trms class="trms">techntrms>iques that decide the <trms class="trms">differentrms>ces between ‘what we know’ and ‘what is’. Morton's hyperobject is a towwk)
usoc --> uncanny strangeness of existence (work of Heidegger)
lawot --> (something is) ‘laying around in the workshop of thinking’ (let's reuse what appears to be broken lawot)

visist = visit + resist


cor<trms class="trms">relationtrms>ism: <thdf class='thdf'>the notion thatthdf> philosophy can only talk within a narrow bandwidth, restricted to the human-<trms class="trms">worldtrms> correlate : meaning is only possible between a human mind and ‘what it thinks' = its “objects” (flimsy شل و ول and tenuous رفيق as they are) ~-> the light on in the fridge when you close the door
-Heidegger (towering through) is a cor<trms class="trms">relationtrms>ist who asserts that without Dasein, it makes no sense whatsoever to talk of the truth of things, which for him implies their very existence--for him idealism, not realism, holds the key to philosophy. (Heidegger's tool-analysis: when <trms class="trms"><trms class="trms">equiptrms>trms>ment--which for all intents and purposes could be anything at all--is functioning, or “executing” [Vollzug], it withdraws from access [Entzug]; that it is only when a tool is broken that it seems to become <trms class="trms">presentrms>t-at-hand [vorhanden] --> is this what Femke is proposing to apasstn'>?)

Descartes uncritically importing the very scholasticism his work undermined

[trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>]<trms class="trms">epistemtrms>ology:
ts class="lsts lst1">•how can i know what there are (or are not) real thingstn'>?
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•what gives me (or denies me) access to the realtn'>?
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•what defines the possibility of accesstn'>?
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•what defines the possibility of possibilitytn'>?
ts>
tl="font-size:111%">
ts class="lsts lst1">•Einstein discovered a rippling, flowing spacetime
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=T'>Tarkovsky discovered the ‘<trms class="trms">sensutrms>ous <trms class="trms">materitrms>al of film stock’ --> s<trms class="trms">socitrms>
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Husserl discovered something strange about the objects: no <trms class="trms">mattertrms> how many times you turned around a cion, you never saw the other side as the other side --> the t class='at'>#t>coin had a dark side that was seemingly irreducible
ts>

Morton's (<trms class="trms">techntrms>ology of what we know) hyperobject is his sense of an a<trms class="trms">symtrms>metry between the in<trms class="trms">finittrms>e powers of cognition and the in<trms class="trms">finittrms>e bening of things, yet he doesn't evoke descriptive practices, which could be helpfull--he is missing something, here: “the gap between <trms class="trms">phenomentrms>on and thing yawns open, disturbing my sense of <trms class="trms">presentrms>ce and being in the <trms class="trms">worldtrms>.”
“[...] i cannot locate the gap between <trms class="trms">phenomentrms>on and thing anywhere in my given, <trms class="trms">phenomentrms>al, experiential, or indeed <trms class="trms">scietrms>ntific space” --> Xiri's problem
he disagrees with: (from Plato up until Hume and Kant) that there is some kind of dotted line somewhere on a thing, saying “cut here” --so he con<trms class="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clutrms>des: “things are themselves, but we can't point to them directly.” =/= nonre<trms class="trms">presentrms>tational theory, Stewart is much more useful. we can see Morton's taste for (a masculine) <trms class="trms">sublimtrms>e in modeling his hyperobjects

tl="font-size:111%"> flat <trms class="trms">ontotrms>logy: there is hardly any <trms class="trms">differentrms>ce between a person and a pincushion. and <trms class="trms">relationtrms>ships between them, in<trms class="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clutrms>ding <trms class="trms">causatrms>l ones, must be vicarious (نيابتى) and hence <trms class="trms">aesthettrms>ic in <trms class="trms">naturtrms>e


(no) realism that only bases its findings on “ontic” <trms class="trms">datatrms>

<trms class="trms">scietrms>ntific discoveries are necessarily based on a decision about what real things are

trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>disaster [<trms class="trms">ontotrms>logic] taking place against a stable background [ontic]trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>

tl="font-size:111%"> <trms class="trms">causatrms>lity after Hume and Kant : <trms class="trms">causatrms>lity as a feature of <trms class="trms">phenomentrms>a, rather than things in themselves ==> humans are not totally in charge of assigning significance and value to events that can be statistically <trms class="trms">meastrms>ured
entities that become visible through post-Humean and post-Kantian statistical <trms class="trms">causatrms>lity --> <trms class="trms">anthroptrms>ogenic global warming

<trms class="trms">causatrms>l factoid


humiliators [there is no center and we don't inhabit it]:
ts class="lsts lst1">•Copernicus
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Darwin
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Freud (displacing the human from the very center of psychic activity)
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Marx (displacing human <trms class="trms">socitrms>al life with economic organization)
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Heidegger
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Derrida (displacing the human from the center of meaning-making)
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Nietzsche
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Deleuze and Guattari
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•
ts> <tld>~tld>= there is no <trms class="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edgetrms> =/= (film Lucy or Neil trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=T'>Tyson series sug<trms class="trms">gesttrms>ing that) there is an <trms class="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edgetrms> (of time to see everything perfectly), in some (privilaged) transcendental sphere of pure freedom, Lu[...]