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[unknown] from Salt Photography After Dark by Tim Morton of Salt Photography
'A reckoning for our species': the philosopher prophet of the Anthropocene
Part of what makes Morton popular are his attacks on settled ways of thinking. His most frequently cited book, Ecology Without Nature, says we need to scrap the whole concept of “nature”. He argues that a distinctive feature of our world is the presence of ginormous things he calls “hyperobjects” – such as global warming or the internet – that we tend to think of as abstract ideas because we can’t get our heads around them, but that are nevertheless as real as hammers. He believes all beings are interdependent, and speculates that everything in the universe has a kind of consciousness, from algae and boulders to knives and forks. He asserts that human beings are cyborgs of a kind, since we are made up of all sorts of non-human components; he likes to point out that the very stuff that supposedly makes us us – our DNA – contains a significant amount of genetic material from viruses. He says that we’re already ruled by a primitive artificial intelligence: industrial capitalism. At the same time, he believes that there are some “weird experiential chemicals” in consumerism that will help humanity prevent a full-blown ecological crisis. Morton’s theories might sound bizarre, but they are in tune with the most earth-shaking idea to emerge in the 21st century: that we are entering a new phase in the history of the planet – a phase that Morton and many others now call the “Anthropocene”.
via https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/15/timothy-morton-anthropocene-philosopher
With respect to Jaynes’s basic confusion of “consciousness” and “self-concept,” we can thus assert something different. Asserting it will require fewer speculative moving parts than Jaynes does. Hearing voices generates anxiety, which generates more voices, which leads to humans believing in one or two of them, taking them literally: early agrilogistic societies tended to believe that the king was the sole or privileged receiver of the voice(s) of god(s). While Jaynes holds that the modern mind has priority over civilization, it makes more logical sense and requires less cognitive machination to argue that the agrilogistic program has priority.50 What structures thought is agrilogistics, not the other way around. The voices didn’t just show up out of the blue. They had always been there. What changed was our attitude toward them. And this is tantamount to peeling consciousness apart from a self-concept: on the ecognostic view, you can have consciousness without a specific idea of “you.
Excerpt From: Morton, Timothy. “Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence.”
“Più ci opponiamo con la ragione alla sincerità fenomenologica, più ci accorgiamo di essere invischiati. È l’equivalente di vivere in una società del rischio: una società in cui la crescente consapevolezza scientifica del rischio (da sostanze chimiche tossiche, per esempio) cambia la natura stessa della democrazia. È un’ulteriore conferma del fatto che siamo usciti dalla modernità. La suggestiva reversibilità dello specchio liquefatto è il segno che qualcosa, nell’era del riscaldamento globale, sta accadendo. E la causa di questo qualcosa sta proprio negli iperoggetti: la realtà si dissolve mentre gli iperoggetti si mostrano nella loro grandezza, ci contaminano, diventano noi stessi. I greci parlavano di miasma per indicare il sangue di un uomo ucciso che contamina la terra in cui si riversa. Quello che Husserl aveva notato – che gli oggetti non possono essere esauriti dalla percezione – ha una conseguenza viscosa: non esiste un’aurea mediocritas (alla lettera, una posizione intermedia) da cui osservare gli oggetti. Ciò che l’OOO afferma è che si può estendere questa intuizione anche a entità non umane; in un certo senso, tutti gli oggetti sono intrappolati nella gelatina appiccicosa della viscosità: perché non si esauriscono mai nella relazione, nemmeno quando si scontrano. I materiali radioattivi costituiscono un buon esempio di viscosità: più cerchi di liberartene, più ti rendi conto che non è possibile: mettono seriamente a repentaglio la nozione di «altrove». Lontano dagli occhi non vuol dire lontano dal cuore: se vengono seppelliti nel monte Yucca, sai che filtreranno nella falda acquifera. E dove sarà quella montagna tra 24.000 anni?"
Timothy Morton - Iperoggetti
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. . the many faces of the self are samples of a kind of soul .the kinds of soul we carry ‘round; vary in measurement & sound. Today, this very mom- ent, where & when i am, or am i not; my face seems alien to me; stranger than strange.
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