Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦If there are “hyperobjects,” there might also be #hypersituations …
#hyperobjects #TimothyMorton #GrahamHarman
3 … crises currently enveloping us. We need a word that conveys both the complexity, the multidimensionality of #climatechange, but also its persistence through time. The philosopher #TimothyMorton uses the word “hyperobject” to refer to things that are “massively distributed in space and time … 🧵
Carmilla On Line - Rss BotUn’anomala discronia https://www.carmillaonline.com/2025/06/29/unanomala-discronia/ #DomenicoConoscenti #CharlesBaudelaire #CrimesoftheFuture #PierPaoloPasolini #DavidCronenberg #LilianaCavani #TimothyMorton #GeorgeOrwell #Manomissione #BladeRunner #RidleyScott #Recensioni #Icannibali #discronia #PaoloLago #Distopia #fascismo #omofobia #romanzo #1984
ira“Hyperspace is in a way regular old space, but imagined as […] a thing with specific characteristics, not just a blank slate. Space is supposed to be what contains all other phenomena. Space itself isn't different from other phenomena such as planets and people […] That means it's not omnipresent, and that omniscience and omnipotence are therefore impossible. Space isn't evenly always the same. It has contours. It is creamy. The way hyperspace is visualized as kind of roaring blue and white pearlescent ocean is a wonderful sign of real political, intellectual and artistic progress. The creamy phenomenology of hyperspace means that space is palpable, […] It's not a scary infinite mouth at all. It's not swallowing everything and being ontologically bigger than everything. It's a swirl with blobs […].
from “Spacecraft” by Timothy Morton
#space
#hyperspace
#TimothyMorton
#Spacecraft
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/vera-c-rubin-observatory-first-photos/
jon zellwegerSuper niche non-fiction book from a novelist who is writing/reflecting about writing and the influences to her thinking. I cannot recall how I came across this or why I picked up other than the first section on “Plants” touched on ecology and the landscape with big mentions of Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach books and Timothy Morton’s concepts of Dark Ecology and Hyperobjects. There are some distinctly female oriented views on the books topics (‘Plants’, ‘Planets’, and ‘Bleed’) and that offered up some powerful, persuasive notions of women as receptors — of the good and bad — and the body becomes the site for dealing with these issues. As the husband of a breast-cancer survivor, I’m very sensitive to this notion that the civilization’s literally high toxicity writ itself large within women’s bodies. Those observations by Wilk spurred me to purchase my next three reading projects, so we’ll see where that rabbit hole takes me!
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#deathbylandscape #elviawilk #margaretatwood #jeffvandermeer #southernreachtrilogy #timothymorton #ecology #hyperobjects #plants #sciencefiction #ex_libris_jz
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Not so long ago, an event like ALTEREGOISM — organised by the everyone is a girl collective (https://everyoneisagirl.substack.com/) and drawing on thinkers such as #timothymorton #markfisher Sherry Turkle, #GillesDeleuze and #GuyDebord — would have taken the form of a cultural theory or cultural studies seminar. You’d have most likely found it in a university setting or arts venue such as the ICA.
But ALTEREGOISM didn’t happen in an established, formal institution. It took place in a packed room above a vintage clothes shop called Bread & Butter in Shoreditch (of course it had to be East London!).
It didn’t just involve theory — it brought together art, music, fashion, new media and performance. And it wasn’t just academics either but also artists, designers, curators, DJs, writers, publishers...
#art #artists #theory #writing #publishing #music #design #culturalstudies
jon zellwegeriiiinteresting. Wonder what @objectoriented.bsky.social or #timothymorton might say about this.
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Codice RossoGli “uomini pesce” e il potere dappertutto
Recensione del romanzo “Gli uomini pesce” (2024) di Wu Ming 1
https://codice-rosso.net/gli-uomini-pesce-e-il-potere-dappertutto/
“the Death Star is an open-plan office, […] Lounges are quite different. Lounges allow you to conceal stuff. You aren't automatically under surveillance. The emphasis is leisure rather than labor. Moreover, the Falcon is a lounge in which you can travel to another kind of lounge. Sounds cozy, doesn't it? But, in a strange way, this lounge is to be found inside the Falcon. Despite this living room's size-it is the size of the universe-you can't get there any other way than by climbing aboard. No wonder when you find it, you sit down in the Falcon's lounge and play chess. Its name may surprise you: this lounge is called HYPERSPACE.”
“We are moving from a regime of penetration to one of circlusion […] as if space itself were sucking the ships into it-circluding them in its warp, a word that suggests the feminized activity of weaving and its soft, winding, twisting fabrics, rather than the straight and narrow grids of Cartesian space. In the Star Wars series, when a vessel enters HYPERSPACE, they disappear, exactly as if they had been enveloped by a thick medium that makes them invisible. Warping, the thing that the Norns do, the Norse female beings entwining us in the web of fate. The word weird is derived from the old Norse urthr, which means twisted into a loop. Weirdness, "fate," and the deja-vu-like feeling that it's happening, is the twisting of twine into a loop-the thing western civilization has been trying to straighten out into "fate" as a matter of fact. Fate is set in stone and mechanical, you can't stop it. Weirdness is twisted and strange and knowing. Warp drive, metaphorically speaking, requires weirdness.”
