Ep. 191 - Timothy Morton "Hell: A Christian Ecology" pt. 2

The Deconstructionists

John Williamson

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

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Guest/Bio:

This week we wrap up our conversation with 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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0:00.0	Welcome to the Deconstructionist podcast. I'm your host, John Williamson, and we're back with part two of my conversation with Tim Morton.
0:19.2	So if you haven't listened to the first part yet, hit pause on this one.
0:22.0	Go back and listen to Part 1 first.
0:24.2	If you've already listened to Part 1, well, then welcome back for Part 2.
0:27.6	And the conclusion of my interview with Tim Morton, again, just couldn't tell you how much fun this was.
0:34.4	Again, for those of you who listened to the first part already really reminded me
0:39.8	of some of the really great conversations we've had previously with Pete Rollins got to get him back on
0:45.1	so that's on my agenda and list of things to do but really hoping I can connect the two
0:50.1	to have some conversations I think they have a lot in common and I think it'd be really cool special conversation to have some conversations. I think they have a lot in common. And I think it'd be really cool, special conversation to have.
0:58.0	So maybe we'll get that done.
0:59.9	That's on my list of New Year's resolutions, maybe.
1:03.3	So anyway, Tim is the Rita Shea Guffy Chair in English at Rice University.
1:08.8	He's collaborated with folks such as Bjork, Lori Anderson, Jennifer Walsh, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges,
1:16.2	Olofer, Aleason, and Farrell Williams, to name a few.
1:19.8	He's also written numerous books and essays and philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design, and food.
1:27.8	Again, just had a blast talking with him.
1:30.4	And so we talk more about his new book, Hell,
1:34.2	in search of a Christian ecology.
1:36.2	Go check it out.
1:37.2	All the notes are in the show notes, of course.
1:38.8	And without further ado, I give you Tim Freakin Morton.
1:59.0	Music further ado, I give you Tim Freakin Morton. Yeah, what's funny is, you know, what's funny is, I've heard you mention that before,
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