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Hyperobjects : philosophy and ecology after the end of the world / Timothy Morton.

By: Series: Posthumanities ; 27.Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]Distributor: [Ann Arbor, Michigan] : ProQuest Ebook Central.Copyright date: ©2013Description: x, 229 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 9781452940540
  • 9780816689231
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: Hyperobjects : philosophy and ecology after the end of the world.Available additional physical forms:
  • Print version also available.
Contents:
A Quake in Being: An Introduction to Hyperobjects -- Part I. What Are Hyperobjects? -- Viscosity -- Nonlocality -- Temporal Undulation -- Phasing -- Interobjectivity -- Part II. The Time of Hyperobjects -- The End of the World -- Hypocrisies -- The Age of Asymmetry
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. Morton explains what hyperobjects are and their impact on how we think, how we coexist, and how we experience our politics, ethics, and art.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Red 110 MOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 25/03/2025 10405

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Quake in Being: An Introduction to Hyperobjects -- Part I. What Are Hyperobjects? -- Viscosity -- Nonlocality -- Temporal Undulation -- Phasing -- Interobjectivity -- Part II. The Time of Hyperobjects -- The End of the World -- Hypocrisies -- The Age of Asymmetry

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. Morton explains what hyperobjects are and their impact on how we think, how we coexist, and how we experience our politics, ethics, and art.

Print version also available.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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