Ep. 190 - Timothy Morton "Hell: A Christian Ecology" pt. 1

The Deconstructionists

John Williamson

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:religion, Judaism, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Islam, Religion, Hinduism, Buddhism

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🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Guest/Bio:

This week we welcome the incredible Timothy Morton! Tim is a professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. A member of the object-oriented philosophy movement, Morton's work explores the intersection of object-oriented thought and ecological studies. Morton's use of the term 'hyperobjects' was inspired by Björk's 1996 single 'Hyperballad', although the term 'Hyper-objects' (denoting n-dimensional non-local entities) has also been used in computer science since 1967. Morton uses the term to explain objects so massively distributed in time and space as to transcend localization, such as climate change and styrofoam.

He has collaborated with Björk, Laurie Anderson, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Justin Guariglia, Olafur Eliasson, and Pharrell Williams. Morton co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future’s Past, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. He is the author of the libretto for the opera Time Time Time by Jennifer Walshe. Morton has authored numerous books and 250 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. Morton’s work has been translated into 10 languages. In 2014, Morton gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory.

Morton received a B.A. and D.Phil. in English from Magdalen College, Oxford.Their doctoral dissertation, "Re-Imagining the Body: Shelley and the Languages of Diet," studied the representation of diet, temperance, and consumption in the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Guest (Selected) Works: Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), and Hell: A Christian Ecology

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1:02.3	Recently, after having had COVID for the third time, unfortunately, and having to move and get my
1:09.2	kiddo started in new school and all sorts of other life events that
1:12.7	obviously threw a bit of a wrench into my intended release schedule. You know, lots of things
1:18.8	came up, but we're back with the new episode this week and hopefully we'll be back on track
1:23.5	the rest of the year. And so I've been using this down on time to record lots of new interviews
1:28.8	that I'm very excited about, lots of interesting topics that I think you guys will enjoy. So
1:32.3	should expect content, new content every week now through December. So with this one,
1:39.2	really, really excited to share this one with you guys. I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr.
1:43.8	Timothy Morton. Can't tell you how much I really enjoyed this one with you guys. I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Timothy
1:44.2	Morton. Can't tell you how much I really enjoyed this one. For those of you who have been listening
1:49.0	for a while or have gone back to our prior episodes with our friend Peter Rollins, I think
1:54.0	you'll really connect with this one. In fact, it reminded me so much of our conversations with Pete
1:58.8	that I had to connect the two afterwards. And I'm praying the two at some point can do something together because I think that would be pretty special.
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