Being Ecological by Timothy Morton

Author:Timothy Morton
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Ecology; philosophy; environmental philosophy; object oriented philosophy; OOO; information dump; post truth; digital age; liveable future; Anthropocene; nature; capitalism; consumerism; consciousness; environment; activism; environmentalism; cultural studies; posthumanism; post-humanism; posthumanist; post-humanist; disco; climate change; Freud; Weber; Heidegger; phenomenology; mass extinction; ecofeminism; ecological theory; digital fatigue; fake news; science; anthropocentrism; cybernetics; DNA, Environmental Policy, Political Science, General, Public Policy, Nature, Philosophy, Ecology
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2018-03-02T01:04:53.810000+00:00

presence. The soul-and-body, “conductor” model seems up to date because it has to do with management, ownership, and all kinds of things associated with the notion of private property that influence a lot of what we do on this Earth. But this turns out, as we have seen, to be a retweet of a Neoplatonic Christian concept.

Furthermore, the “on switch” model of action depends on a mechanical theory of causation that requires some kind of god-like being at the start of the causal chain, to get the ball rolling. After that, the ball hits the next ball in a mechanical way. So the mechanical theory is really just a variant or upgrade of the “conductor” one. And this is therefore merely a modification of our Neoplatonic retweet: the soul is the driver, the body is the chariot …

Let’s make a new word: alreadiness. This word is going to come in very handy, because now I don’t have to resort to a suggestive but rather clunky phrase from one of my favorite philosophical regions: deconstruction. This would be the famous always-already employed by Heidegger and then by Jacques Derrida, the inheritor of Heidegger’s approach, which he called Destruktion (“de-structuring”), and which Derrida calls deconstruction.

Alreadiness hints at our tuning to something else, which is a dance in which that something else is also, already, tuning to us. Indeed, there are some experiences in which it simply can’t be said which attunement takes priority; which comes first, logically and chronologically. One of these is the common experience of beauty. We can learn a lot from it: let’s go.

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