Dark Ecology

Tim Morton

Introduction
In which I drone on about my pet peeve
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Larry Butz, Rice University

Concentric
RNA world

Temporalities

DNA-ocene

Bacteriocene Asteroid extinction event

Anthropocene

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Metalanguage

Agrilogistics

Tenniel

Everything is a Field

Tenniel

Trying to get rid of the loop is the loop

Trying to get rid of the loop is the loop

A=A

Trying to get rid of the loop is the loop

Dialetheia vs LNC

Tarski Metalanguage Metaphysics

This sentence is false

Back to the Future

Signs of Progress
Romantic irony (narrator discovers she is the protagonist) Hypocrisy vs cynicism Allergy The uncanny

Signs of Progress
If a time machine could serve up to you your 200 million greats grandfather, you would eat him with sauce tartare and a slice of lemon. He was a fish. Yet you are connected to him by an unbroken line of intermediate ancestors, every one of whom belonged to the same species as its parents and its children . . . If your theology tells you that human beings should receive special respect and moral privilege as the only species that possesses a soul, you have to face up to the awkward question of when, in human evolution, the first ensouled baby was born. Richard Dawkins

Fuzzy Sets
Russell Set Paradox Sorites Paradox

Hyperobjects

Phenomenonthing gap (Kant)

Happy Nihilism vs Dark Nihilism

Miasma Meontic nothing (nothingness)

Hyperobjects

Phenomenonthing gap (Kant)

Trickster

Accelerationism
Let the deterritorialization of Earth commence! Miasma Meontic nothing (nothingness)

Phenomenological reduction of ecological awareness

Guilt << Shame << Melancholia << Sadness << Joy