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Author of 20+ books, 46 in translation in 19 languages.

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I wrote about my very popular class, ENGL 101 (What Is a Fact?) ‘What is a fact?’ A humanities class prepares STEM students to be better scientists via @ConversationUS

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‘What is a fact?’ A humanities class prepares STEM students to be better scientists

A professor shows science students how humanities classes are the real stem that other disciplines sprout from. They learn that critical thinking and skepticism don’t stop when they leave the lab.

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Every Large Parking Lot in France Will Soon Be Covered in Solar Panels

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Every Large Parking Lot in France Will Soon Be Covered in Solar Panels

A mandate to blanket the asphalt in photovoltaics could provide as much energy as 10 nuclear power plants.

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I won’t be flying to give lectures. Period. It’s the 2020s folks. Time to get extremely real. You heard it here first.

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You think ecologically tuned life means being all efficient and pure. Wrong. It means you can have a disco in every room of your house.

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Pink “Himalayan” salt is a hyperobject remnant of the End Permian Extinction, a global warming event that wiped 96% of lifeforms. Enjoy

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Huge new book series coming, I’m in there with Klein, Thunberg and a host of awesome people #penguingreenideas

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"We are not abandoning our communities to violence. We don’t want to just close police departments. We want to make them obsolete." Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police

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My reply was “I am non-binary and my pronoun is they. Go fuck yourself.”

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Zizek and I will do a thing for you together on April 4. Stay tuned for details.

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People of Earth, we need a word like racism or sexism or speciesism to label discrimination against future beings. What is that word. On your marks, get set...

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I'm really, really proud today that I'm training high school teachers in the Netherlands to teach The Ecological Thought, which is now part of their curriculum.

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Today

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They are here.

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Slavoj and I agreed with each other for two hours, made each other laugh, talked about hyperobjects and dark ecology and Ukraine and OOO…will be publishing various parts of it in various formats starting with Jack Self’s amazing Real Review. I just knew we would have a blast

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finished today

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I’m making a series for the BBC called The End of the World Has Already Happened.

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Prove you’re not a robot.

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The best things for an individual to do for the planet *right now* are to eat less meat, fight racism and misogyny, and vote. You’re not guilty. You’re responsible.

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American for socialism is hyperspace.

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Fairly shortly

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Me and @xjbgx

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New title what do you think

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I know why I’m so upset about “reopen.” It combines a horrible truth — literally reopening ourselves to be violated — with a horrible lie. Reopen means close back down. Back to normal, destroying earth with abandon.

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anyone who doesn't yet understand or like the term Anthropocene, listen up, here is an example of what it is and why it's true: Microplastics have been found in the pristine Arctic and the Swiss Alps. Here's why that could spell seriously bad news.

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Scientists Astonished After Finding Microplastics In Arctic Snow

Plastic may be a significant source of air pollution, concluded a new study that shows how microplastics may be carried through winds and precipitation.

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This is VERY good. People talk about eco trauma but this is how the "environment" isn't just environmental. It's (in) your brain. And your brain is your body.

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‘Everybody has a breaking point’: how the climate crisis affects our brains

Scientists are just starting to discover how extreme heat and weather is linked to neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s and motor neurone disease – and can even affect babies in the womb. What...

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At the End of the World, It’s Hyperobjects All the Way Down

Do you feel lost? Alone? Powerless in the face of forces beyond your control? Timothy Morton can help—if you’re ready to have your reality blown apart.

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“Professor Tim, what’s it like having some of your ideas acted out before your eyes in real time across Earth?” —it’s fucking horrible.

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So basically, if you're interested, episode one was Ecology without Nature, episode two was Hyperobjects, and episode three (this Thursday at 11:30 on BBC Radio 4) is Dark Ecology.

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BBC Radio 4 - The End of the World Has Already Happened, 3: Cue The Sinister Music

Where can we find hope as we come to terms with the climate crisis?

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“To protect business, you must not go to work.” Keep it up coronavirus. You’re creating a gigantic general strike. As a matter of fact, you’re making neoliberalism create a gigantic distributed general strike.

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me and @DominicBoyer are finalizing our book Hyposubjects and we are so so excited that this sequel to Hyperobjects will be released soon! As a free pdf from Open Humanities Press! With fun format — book as videogame ...

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You can’t have an economy at all on top of an ecology that has lost all its logic

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I’m teaching a summer class here at Rice that is open to non-Rice students and also to high school juniors and seniors. It’s called How to Read Texts and it’s about how to understand, resist and respond to this challenging situation of viral propaganda. Especially for scientists

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My undergraduates are 99% science majors (one social science) and I just set them a close reading in my class "What Is a Fact?" (yes, humanities is the actual stem). The results are so fascinating I'm going to write an essay about it.

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Hyperobject Industries, I did tell them to make comedy if possible Seen “Don't Look Up” on Netflix yet?

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Watch Don't Look Up | Netflix Official Site

Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.

www.netflix.com

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You never know how the past will turn out.

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“Timothy Morton is not a *complete idiot.”

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Happy Halloween Earth Day 2024

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Stop calling it climate change. It's global warming. Actually stop calling it global warming. It's mass extinction. Mass extinction.

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I work with academics a lot, so I find it necessary to break my stuff down into simple shit that even they can understand.

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Hi everyone, I am back with the online teaching stuff, haven’t recorded a class for ages! So in the spirit of mutual aid-ness, here is this class I taught yesterday on COVID-19 ... for my Ecological Cultural Criticism class

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Be realistic, demand the impossible. Me and @GeorgeMonbiot turned it into “Be scientifically realistic. Demand the politically impossible.” Situationism lives!

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I am Timothy Morton, author of “Queer Ecology,” Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People and numerous queer positive anti-racist and feminist socialist environmentalist books. My next, Hell: Christ’s Earthly Form Divine, will be describing popular forms of fundamentalism as…

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My book Hell: How to Dance with the Devil on Your Back is a go with Columbia University Press. Thanks my friends for the visionary support of this crazy book of upside-down straight up theology that I wrote "with" Blake and with major inspiration from Laura Mvula. @Blake2_0 …

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It is joyful to care for this world no matter what.

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omg i literally had no idea i had been put in The Norton Anthology of Theory! lol i had been boycotting it for years because it didn't have anything ecological in it! the extract is from The Ecological Thought.

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“Progress means: humanity emerges from its spellbound state no longer under the spell of progress as well, itself nature, by becoming aware of its own indigenousness to nature and by halting the mastery over nature through which nature continues its mastery.” Adorno

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And for my next trick

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And duh the coronavirus is a hyperobject. So now we all know that that is.

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You can get through this much better if you have a bit of socialism in your heart.

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so Copenhagen is the first place to refuse to host me because I won't fly to talk there.

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Reassuring books about how humans are better or different than nonhumans in some deep way should be avoided, at the very least. I know why we’re reading them. It’s called denial

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All Art Is Ecological (Penguin Classics) out now

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Ecopath: someone without anxiety or guilt, indifferent to the imminent loss of almost everything they hold dear. And coral.

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A face mask is compassion wear. Its directed to others. It’s not an ego expression at all. It says, I care that you don’t get the virus I may have.

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You are in the middle of a mass extinction event and one way you can tell is, you can’t see it.

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I’ve suddenly realized what lockdown reminded me of. It’s Walter Benjamin saying that socialism isn’t “progress.” Socialism is a stop-the-world application of the emergency brake.

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Ecopath: someone indifferent to or positively stimulated by the suffering of nonhuman beings.

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Adam Smith said business people should not be in government. Adam Smith. Adam Smith said that.

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To Understand Climate Change, You Have to Travel in Hyperobjectivity - WIRED

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Listen to: At the End of the World, It's Hyperobjects All the Way Down

Understanding these forces and responding to their urgent demands might be the greatest challenge of our time, and contemplating hyperobjects, while an often frustrating experience, can be an act of...

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Happy new year folks and remember not to confuse time with its measurement. Doesn’t sound like a big deal but ... trillions of lifeforms want you to think otherwise

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Learn to speak climate! Lesson 1: "Net zero by 2050" means "I contribute to mass extinction."

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"It is increasingly rare to find humans who relish that engulfing sensation of the immensity of the not us" @jorie_graham in The New Yorker today, reading is compulsory:

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Jorie Graham Takes the Long View

The poet talks about distraction, ecological devastation, and the future of her medium.

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Timothy Morton’s Hyper-Pandemic

For the philosopher of “hyperobjects”—vast, unknowable things that are bigger than ourselves—the coronavirus is further proof that we live in a dark ecology.

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Structural racism is a hyperobject.

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Capitalism is an adaptive AI that machine learns how to extract life from the biosphere with increasing efficiency and without a logical end point.

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I have just written a book in twenty hours.

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I hear Zizek’s voice, and I love this idea of his: “The only way to defeat a partial object…is to *become* the partial object.” Force all students to use ChatGPT to write the essay, then revise it, then turn in both plus revision rationale.

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This is a review of Being Ecological in yesterday’s Guardian

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Being Ecological by Timothy Morton review – a playfully serious look at the environment

There are not too many ‘scary facts’ in this ambitious book, which draws on both Kantian philosophy and Star Wars to explain our relationship to the world

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I just spent many days with a most Enlightened Journalist Guy from the New Yorker who is writing a big piece about me. Amazing.

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That’s right UK kids—fuck the algorithm. Algorithms are based on the past by definition—think about it. They’re going to hardwire defining your future via the past. We mustn’t let that happen.

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Whatever you think of the word "Anthropocene," the definition is: there is a layer of human-made materials in the top layer of Earth's crust. This layer is everywhere.

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'Horrifying' Plastic Rocks Emerge in Remote Island Paradise

A disturbing new geological hybrid.

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“We don’t have coronavirus in our state, because we don’t test for it.” “We don’t have homophobia, because we never talk about it.” “We don’t have bullying, because we look the other way.”

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“We survived the first wave” = “we restarted neoliberalism efficiently.” Well fucking done.

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Hyposubjects pdf just showed up

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Will you fucking stop it with your stupid fucking bitcoin

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On closer inspection, the viruses turned out to be kindly, wise elephantine creatures, whose communications took the form of time loops.

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"Germans—many of whom shake their heads incredulously at what they perceive to be the antics of the US far-right—should finally start paying attention to what’s happening in their own country." " Holocaust Humor and The ‘Real’ Germany — As Top Officials Shatter Post-WWII Taboos,…

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I’m writing a book for @objectsobjects and it’s called Spacecraft. And it’s mostly about the Millennium Falcon. @ibogost @airplanereading are to blame for so kindly inviting me to do this for you.

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Basically, very basically, capitalism is reactive—based on the past, trying for “certainty” aka stuff being the same in the future” aka more of the past. On some level it just can’t deal with the future.

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Tomorrow

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Yes. That's the title. Earth Day, 2024. Columbia UP.

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On March 24 I’m going to be doing something very special with Laurie Anderson and you can register for it.

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WE ARE THE ASTEROID

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Here it is folks—the book I was telling you about. Download it for free

Hyperobjects for Artists

The Creative Independent is a resource of emotional and practical guidance for creative people.

thecreativeindependent.com

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Bots don't know how to write. Students don't have to know how to write to get an A in Writing already. They just have to follow a ...program. The US made schools ready for bots by turning their students into them.

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Bizarre messages found on traffic sign are really art

NOT HACKED, BUT ART! ABC13's Courtney Fischer spotted the traffic sign on her way to work that included several bizarre messages.

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Having a statue in a public place is coercive (you have to see it) and an implicit expression of collective beliefs. Stick them in a fucking museum with labels and contexts where people have to commit to see them. This isn’t a zero sum game like the pro-slavery statue people say.

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My friend Rune and the book we wrote a chapter for

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Spread the word--if you are a junior or senior high school student, you can take my online summer class, ENGL 252. It's called How to Read Texts, which is a pretty bland title. I prefer Advanced Psychic Combat Training.

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Penguin Books you're awesome, this is the first book where my non-binary-ness is on the cover :,,,,)

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hey twitter what essays etc on queer ecology would you recommend that isn’t by me?

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Getting set up here for my interview with @GeorgeMonbiot for the BBC

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We live in a new age of sensibility like the 18th century where the fastest person to cry the most in public is the winner. Therefore the person with the most leisure wins. Therefore the most privileged person wins. Goth / Romantic reaction to this shit, now, please.

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Everyone suffers from the class system. Everyone.

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The illustrious Abby Goode @abbylgoode Abby was my PhD student and you really really should buy this. Abby and I are very much on the same mission.

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