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flawedrain's review
informative
reflective
3.5
libro finte per la tesi ho fatto skimming sulla seconda parte perché magari ci torno
eljel's review
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.25
Morton’s account offers some interesting insights, but I am afraid ultimately is inconsistent and the fundamentals on which his OOO is built are kinda wacky and incompatible with his more textual-based approach; I think contrary to objects, it’s Morton’s theory that’s in the end hypocritical
but what do I know, I’m just a girl
but what do I know, I’m just a girl
casparb's review
ok whirlwind this is quite the piece and absolutely one of my favourite books I've read this year. Tim has been on the radar for a little while and seems to be growing. Glad I got here now!
To get this out of the way, Tim works with and in OOO (Object-Oriented Ontology) which is a bit of a battlefield in contemporary philosophy as I understand it there are strong feelings from everybody I'm not here to wade in on whatever side. But this was my official intro to OOO! I really enjoyed what was happening with Heidegger here, partly because Tim keeps distancing and then returning to it, it feels very love-hate! It's entertaining!
Also a note that Tim's love for Percy Shelley is just v cute I like the punctuating appearance of PS
My highlights are truly on every page & that is because it felt necessary! TM's style is accessible with the nods to pop culture we find in a lot of pop-philosophy (contradiction in terms? ;) ) but then that's batted out of the air with a Derrida/Heidegger reading of interobjectivity and indeed Hegel makes his appearance toward the end (weirdly I didn't hate this reading of Derrida I felt it was v sophisticated). Not a fan of Nietzsche & I think for the N quote pulled that's valid - imo the most exciting Nietzschean (non)ecology is found in The Will to Power but that's not established as a 'canonical' text yet! grr. Ridiculous breadth! We're spinning in Roman Jakobson (my love) as a means of understanding weather Events with a good splash of quantum theory & relativity in the beginning. V funny stabs at Deleuze maybe it's philosophical schadenfreude by this point
Discussion of the future-art critical too. Too relevant. Hegel makes his grand entry here.
You have to wonder whether your poem about global warming is really a hyperobject’s way of distributing itself into human ears and libraries. Art becomes an attunement to the demonic.
...
Art in these conditions is grief-work. We are losing a fantasy—the fantasy of being immersed in a neutral or benevolent Mother Nature—and a person who is losing a fantasy is a very dangerous person. In no sense then should art be PR for climate change.
I want to reread very soon I like TM
To get this out of the way, Tim works with and in OOO (Object-Oriented Ontology) which is a bit of a battlefield in contemporary philosophy as I understand it there are strong feelings from everybody I'm not here to wade in on whatever side. But this was my official intro to OOO! I really enjoyed what was happening with Heidegger here, partly because Tim keeps distancing and then returning to it, it feels very love-hate! It's entertaining!
Also a note that Tim's love for Percy Shelley is just v cute I like the punctuating appearance of PS
My highlights are truly on every page & that is because it felt necessary! TM's style is accessible with the nods to pop culture we find in a lot of pop-philosophy (contradiction in terms? ;) ) but then that's batted out of the air with a Derrida/Heidegger reading of interobjectivity and indeed Hegel makes his appearance toward the end (weirdly I didn't hate this reading of Derrida I felt it was v sophisticated). Not a fan of Nietzsche & I think for the N quote pulled that's valid - imo the most exciting Nietzschean (non)ecology is found in The Will to Power but that's not established as a 'canonical' text yet! grr. Ridiculous breadth! We're spinning in Roman Jakobson (my love) as a means of understanding weather Events with a good splash of quantum theory & relativity in the beginning. V funny stabs at Deleuze maybe it's philosophical schadenfreude by this point
Discussion of the future-art critical too. Too relevant. Hegel makes his grand entry here.
You have to wonder whether your poem about global warming is really a hyperobject’s way of distributing itself into human ears and libraries. Art becomes an attunement to the demonic.
...
Art in these conditions is grief-work. We are losing a fantasy—the fantasy of being immersed in a neutral or benevolent Mother Nature—and a person who is losing a fantasy is a very dangerous person. In no sense then should art be PR for climate change.
I want to reread very soon I like TM
lraoutrha's review
5.0
Woe...this shifted so much of my thinking, and I don't even know where to find the words for how. All I can say right now is that I feel challenged as an artist in exciting and terrifying ways. More on this to come.
ssdamon's review
2.0
*Hyperobjects* reflects many of the worst characteristics of continental philosophy, mushy concepts, an erudition that bullies and distracts rather than elucidates, analogy and bluster in place of argumentation. This is a work of philosophy that contains no sustained engagement with philosophy, a work of ecology that contains at best casual reference to ecological details, a work of politics that manages at most a couple of vague proposals. As a work of literature, of description, it has its moments; though perhaps its best use is as a compendium of other books and artworks one might better occupy oneself with.