Dark Ecology

Timothy Morton
For a Logic of Future Coexistence

Progress means: humanity emerges from
its spellbound state no longer under the
spell of progress as well, itself
nature, by becoming aware of its own
indigenousness to nature and by halting
the mastery over nature through which
nature continues its mastery.

Theodor Adorno
Beginning after the End
The First Thread
Each outcry from the hunted Hare
A fibre from the Brain does tear

William Blake
Weird

Urth

Norns

Turn, twist

A twist of fate
A strange turnup
Strange loop

Anthropocene

Paul Crutzen
Eugene Stoermer

1784

Great Acceleration

Dipesh Chakrabarty
a geophysical force
on a planetary scale

An inconvenient Anthropocene
The ocean's silver screen
How I learned
To stop worrying
And love the term
Anthropocene
Me .0. Species
Where .0.= is in a loop with
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AGRILOGISTICS
Tom Stoppard, Darkside (BBC, 2013)
He says an action is a moral action only
if the consequences are good. He says the
consequences are good if they increase
the sum of human happiness.
We define happiness as a state of well-
being, starting off with being alive
instead of dead.
Ethics man is a utilitarian.
The Three Axioms
1. Thou shalt not violate the law
of noncontradiction.
3. Existing is always better than
any quality of existing.
2. Existing means to be
constantly present.
The Three Axioms
2. Existing means to be
constantly present.
Metaphysics of presence
The Three Axioms
3. (Human) existing is always
better than any quality of
existing, which is now defined as
accidents, not substance.
being alive instead of dead
Nature = Agrilgostics
Prisoners Dilemma
Derek Parfit

Periodic cycling
Jan Zalasiewicz

>> tipping point
(1784, 1945)
= Anthropocene