Wonderful!!! I just stumbled accross Timothy Morton, though familiar with the tenent of his message through buddhist practice, Francisco Varela, Fritjof Capra and many others, and both the presentation and the ideas are fascinating and much needed.
I've been struck by Timothy's ideas, even though I'm far from fully understanding them. They have been quite influential in my artistic work. Your video is amazing, I'm only discovering it now, after being already quite aware of Tim's ideas, and it's just so great to have them presented in this absolutely great production, with those drawings and sounds. Thank you
Thank you so much for the kind words! Timothy Morton's writings can be a bit challenging indeed. However, if you go through their books a couple of times, the writings will undoubtedly become easier to grasp. And if you have more time to read around some of the key subjects present in the books, the ideas will become even clearer.
If you are wondering why we picked the term “global warming”, well, it’s because that’s the preferred term within the books. It is pointed how climate change makes things look as if they were always changing, when actually “we are the asteroid” causing global warming (and thus the Sixth Mass Extinction) which can’t be directly seen, only thought and computed with graphs. Within the video, we have explored how to think about such a collective, the dangerous “we”, without falling into an explosive holism or reducing things to some white western flavor. Instead of giving up the discussion about humankind to Silicon Valley people seeking tech singularity and who knows what kind of transhumanism or to other people in this regard that are seeking some kind of essentialized flavor of Humanity, the video explores a way of referring to a “we” as an ecological being and as a hyperobject that has an impact on a geological scale, but which can’t be directly pointed to.
thank you for making these videos! It's not just they're very pleasant to watch (the animation is just so good) but they also made me understand many things which I wasn't able to grasp fully before. so thanks
phenomenal. thank you for highlighting that an experience or sensation of "weird" can be a signal of different hyperobject geometries interacting and manifesting (ephemerally) at a single point. The drawings seemed to make this point visually and astonishingly.
Love your content! I think you're the best philosophical channel on youtube. I'm reading Karen Barad right now and she has also very interesting things to say about decentralizing humans and finding a posthuman ontology through agential realism. Maybe you can also make a video about here? I think it would fit in this channel Keep up the great work!
Waaw, thank you! She definitely fits with the rest of the videos. I hope we'll make a video on her sometime soon, but we'll need to read a bit more from her and finish some of the things we've planned. But yea, it will be super nice :)
Love Timothy Morton's book on Hyperobjects! This is a dope video, underrated as heck aswell. Awesome video, You got a new sub fo sho. Ooof. Well... There goes the Hyperobject of my wants and likes influencing me again. XD
What do you think about application? I agree we are at a place where perspective is needed with sight of reality and consequences beyond the intimacy of individual action. How that starts, though, is how we can reach it as limited beings. I think the correct foundation is an idea of goodness which contrasts benefit, and I'm personally trying to think in terms of best-fit nature.
In his last book, Timothy Morton argues that Marxism ("From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs") is doable if we tackle the theory's anthropocentric roots (Hegel) and include non-humans. I think ideally it will be anti-anthropocentric and deeply anti-patriarchal, anti-racist/speciesist for him. That sounds very good to our ears since we always wanted leftists to be anti-speciesist as well and extend pleasure to other living beings. By talking about oppression towards other beings and by taking them into consideration, we avoid politics that are based on a violent humanism - which doesn't only hurt other beings, but it hurts humans too.
I'm not too versed in philosophy so I might not be aware of all the connotations a given word has in the literature; what I don't understand about (western) philosophers: do they believe objects are real entities or are they being **used** as crutches, as building blocks inside of a given theory? because - while I like the idea of the hyperobject - it also feels to me like an idea borne out of object-fixated blindness, a blindness to processes that might even persist within hyperobjects objects might be handy for a theory due to their discreteness and staticness, but surely they are almost always abstractions of non-discrete, non-static entities in the real world, no?
Outstanding. Thank you.
Wonderful!!! I just stumbled accross Timothy Morton, though familiar with the tenent of his message through buddhist practice, Francisco Varela, Fritjof Capra and many others, and both the presentation and the ideas are fascinating and much needed.
I've been struck by Timothy's ideas, even though I'm far from fully understanding them. They have been quite influential in my artistic work. Your video is amazing, I'm only discovering it now, after being already quite aware of Tim's ideas, and it's just so great to have them presented in this absolutely great production, with those drawings and sounds. Thank you
Thank you so much for the kind words! Timothy Morton's writings can be a bit challenging indeed. However, if you go through their books a couple of times, the writings will undoubtedly become easier to grasp. And if you have more time to read around some of the key subjects present in the books, the ideas will become even clearer.
If you are wondering why we picked the term “global warming”, well, it’s because that’s the preferred term within the books. It is pointed how climate change makes things look as if they were always changing, when actually “we are the asteroid” causing global warming (and thus the Sixth Mass Extinction) which can’t be directly seen, only thought and computed with graphs. Within the video, we have explored how to think about such a collective, the dangerous “we”, without falling into an explosive holism or reducing things to some white western flavor. Instead of giving up the discussion about humankind to Silicon Valley people seeking tech singularity and who knows what kind of transhumanism or to other people in this regard that are seeking some kind of essentialized flavor of Humanity, the video explores a way of referring to a “we” as an ecological being and as a hyperobject that has an impact on a geological scale, but which can’t be directly pointed to.
Ugh this was excellent, I hope more people start watching.
This is definitely the best explanation of his work that I have seen. The visuals are perfect, too.
thank you for making these videos! It's not just they're very pleasant to watch (the animation is just so good) but they also made me understand many things which I wasn't able to grasp fully before. so thanks
we're very happy to hear!! thank you for the kind words ❤
Just...incredible. I'm awe- struck.
phenomenal. thank you for highlighting that an experience or sensation of "weird" can be a signal of different hyperobject geometries interacting and manifesting (ephemerally) at a single point. The drawings seemed to make this point visually and astonishingly.
Love your content! I think you're the best philosophical channel on youtube. I'm reading Karen Barad right now and she has also very interesting things to say about decentralizing humans and finding a posthuman ontology through agential realism. Maybe you can also make a video about here? I think it would fit in this channel
Keep up the great work!
Waaw, thank you! She definitely fits with the rest of the videos. I hope we'll make a video on her sometime soon, but we'll need to read a bit more from her and finish some of the things we've planned. But yea, it will be super nice :)
a little difficult at the start due to not being accustomed to your accents, but well worth it
I'm not a native speaker either
Love Timothy Morton's book on Hyperobjects!
This is a dope video, underrated as heck aswell. Awesome video, You got a new sub fo sho.
Ooof. Well... There goes the Hyperobject of my wants and likes influencing me again. XD
Esto es muy bueno tremendo video! Ojalá hagan pronto el de Bruno Latour!
That was very helpful, thank you
What do you think about application?
I agree we are at a place where perspective is needed with sight of reality and consequences beyond the intimacy of individual action. How that starts, though, is how we can reach it as limited beings. I think the correct foundation is an idea of goodness which contrasts benefit, and I'm personally trying to think in terms of best-fit nature.
How does post-capitalism look like, from your or Timothy Morton's perspective?
In his last book, Timothy Morton argues that Marxism ("From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs") is doable if we tackle the theory's anthropocentric roots (Hegel) and include non-humans. I think ideally it will be anti-anthropocentric and deeply anti-patriarchal, anti-racist/speciesist for him. That sounds very good to our ears since we always wanted leftists to be anti-speciesist as well and extend pleasure to other living beings. By talking about oppression towards other beings and by taking them into consideration, we avoid politics that are based on a violent humanism - which doesn't only hurt other beings, but it hurts humans too.
I'm not too versed in philosophy so I might not be aware of all the connotations a given word has in the literature;
what I don't understand about (western) philosophers: do they believe objects are real entities or are they being **used** as crutches, as building blocks inside of a given theory?
because - while I like the idea of the hyperobject - it also feels to me like an idea borne out of object-fixated blindness, a blindness to processes that might even persist within hyperobjects
objects might be handy for a theory due to their discreteness and staticness, but surely they are almost always abstractions of non-discrete, non-static entities in the real world, no?
What's going on here?
Theorist invenzs God, academics swoon