Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World by Morton Timothy

Author:Morton, Timothy [Morton, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-08-16T17:51:13+00:00

Home, oikos, is unstable. Who knows where it stops and starts? The poem presents us with an increasingly dizzying array of objects. They can act as homes for other objects. And of course, in turn, these homes can find themselves on the inside of other “homes.”

“Home” is purely “sensual”: it has to do with how an object finds itself inevitably on the inside of some other object. The instability of oikos, and thus of ecology itself, has to do with this feature of objects. A “house” is the way an object experiences the entity in whose interior it finds itself. So then these sorts of things are also houses:

A mirror’s a house for reflections . . .

A throat is a house for a hum . . .

. . .

A book is a house for a story.

A rose is a house for a smell.

My head is a house for a secret,

A secret I never will tell.

A flower’s at home in a garden.

A donkey’s at home in a stall.

Each creature that’s known has a house of its own

And the earth is a house for us all. 25

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