Timothy Morton "Hell: A Christian Ecology" pt. 2
The Deconstructionists
John Williamson
4.5 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 48 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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| 1:09.5 | Welcome to the deconstructionist podcast. |
| 1:11.6 | I am your host, John Williamson, and we're back with part two of my conversation with Tim Morton. |
| 1:16.5 | So if you haven't listened to the first part yet, hit pause on this one. |
| 1:19.3 | Go back and listen to Part 1 first. |
| 1:21.6 | If you've already listened to Part 1, well, then welcome back for Part 2. |
| 1:24.8 | And the conclusion of my interview with tim morton uh again just |
| 1:28.7 | couldn't couldn't tell you how much fun this was um again uh for those of you who |
| 1:33.6 | listened to the first part already um really reminded me uh of some of the really great |
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