[...]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="large lg1" stl="font-size:140%"> 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>

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


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

s clss="trms">scies>ntific discoveries are necessarily based on a decision about what real things are

<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>disaster ss='lgc'>[s clss="trms">ontos>logicss='lgc'>] taking place against a stable background ss='lgc'>[onticss='lgc'>]<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>

s clss="trms">causas>lity after ss="ppl">Hume and ss="ppl">Kant ss='lgc'>: s clss="trms">causas>lity as a feature of s clss="trms">phenomens>a, rather than things in themselves ss='lgc'>==> humans are not totally in charge of assigning significance and value to events that can be statistically s clss="trms">meass>ured
entities that become visible through post-ss="ppl">Humean and post-ss="ppl">Kantian statistical s clss="trms">causas>lity ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">anthrops>ogenic global warming

s clss="trms">causas>l factoid


humiliators ss='lgc'>[there is no center and we don't inhabit itss='lgc'>]ss='lgc'>:
sts clss="lsts lst1">•Copernicus
sts> sts clss="lsts lst1">•ss="ppl">Darwin
sts> sts clss="lsts lst1">•ss="ppl">Freud (displacing the human from the very center of psychic activity)
sts> sts clss="lsts lst1">•ss="ppl">Marx (displacing human s clss="trms">socis>al life with economic organization)
sts> sts clss="lsts lst1">•ss="ppl">Heidegger
sts> sts clss="lsts lst1">•ss="ppl">Derrida (displacing the human from the center of meaning-making)
sts> sts clss="lsts lst1">•ss="ppl">Nietzsche
sts> sts clss="lsts lst1">•ss="ppl">Deleuze and ss="ppl">Guattari
sts> sts clss="lsts lst1">•
sts> ss='lgc'>~= there is no s clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> ss='lgc'>=/= (film Lucy or Neil Tyson series sugs clss="trms">gests>ing that) there is an s clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> (of time to see everything perfectly), in some (privilaged) transcendental sphere of pure freedom, Lucy's chair s clss="trms">literas>lly sitting a VIP box beyond the s clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s clss="trms">anthrops>ocentrismss='lgc'>: ss='thdf'>the idea of a privilaged transcendental sphere
ss="ppl">Kant ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (although we are limited in s clss="trms">finits>ude) our transcendental faculties are at least s clss="trms">s clss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors>ically floating in space beyond the s clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> of the universe ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss='at'>#milieu ss='at'>#s clss="nms">tasavofs> ss='at'>#sufism


...s>هزار و یکs> hezaro yek
universe of trillions of s clss="trms">finits>udes

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ss='lgc'>[<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]thingss='lgc'>: a rift between what it is and how it appears


(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Morton > Hermanss='lgc'>:) human consciousness wants <strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>to preserve knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> as a special kind of s clss="trms">relations> to the s clss="trms">worlds> quite s clss="trms">differens>t from the s clss="trms">relations>s that raindrops and lizards have to the s clss="trms">worlds><strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls> (ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- so ds clss="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers>ous and so difficult to resist ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- next level of s clss="trms">situs>ated knowls clss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>sss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->) also want to claim that the very status of ss='lgc'>[hisss='lgc'>] utterance is somehow special ss='lgc'><== (human) ‘thought’ is given a unique ability to negate and transcend immediate experience
(claims that the human doesn't exist ss='lgc'>==>) elevating the strucure of human ‘thought’ to the s clss="trms">ontos>logical pinnacle s>سرمنزلs>

ss="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> everything (such as s clss="trms">moderns>ity) banks on a certain forms of s clss="trms">ontos>logy and s clss="trms">epistems>ology to secure its coordinates


speculative realism, a rogue machinery

saving powerss='lgc'>:
sts clss="lsts lst1">•expecting an eschatological solution from the sky
sts> sts clss="lsts lst1">•a revolution in consciousness
sts> sts clss="lsts lst1">•a people's army seizing control of the state
sts> sts clss="lsts lst1">•
sts>
obsessive robots (that hold open the sliding doors of s clss="trms">histos>ry just as they appear to be snapping shut, imprisoning us in s clss="trms">moderns>ity forever)

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<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>distance<strcls clss='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>: (the s clss="trms">schizos>phrenic defense, “object in mirror,”) a psychic and ideological construct designed to protect me from the nearness of things
<span clss="prgrph">-the concept of ‘s clss="trms">naturs>e’ is (such) an “object in mirspan>[...]