Journey to the Center of

The Ecological Chocolate

Timothy Morton
Hyperobjects
Massively distributed
We can think and compute them
But not perceive
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The Anthropocene
Paul Crutzen
Eugene Stoermer
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. (Human) existing is always better
than anything else.
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 anything else.
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.
Nature = Agrilgostics
Derek Parfit
Prisoners Dilemma
Jan Zalasiewicz
Periodic cycling
>> tipping point
(1784, 1945)
= Anthropocene
The Way Out is the Way In
The Guilt
reducible
irreducible
The Shame
violence
abjection
The Melancholy
horror
absurdity
the ethereal
The Hollow
The Sadness
beauty
The Joy
The Realm of Toys
The Melancholy
Abjection
Traces of lost object cathexes
(Freud)
The Melancholy
The Horror


The Absurd


The Ethereal
The Horror
Speculative Realism
Eugene Thacker
Ray Brassier
Thomas Ligotti

accelerationism
autoimmunity

The Absurd
The Ethereal
Consumerism
Loops
Objects
The Realm of Toys
The Ethereal
Lower region of The Melancholy
The Sadness
The Hollow
Boundary between The Melancholy and
The Sadness
The Absurd
This is a bite and this is not a bite
p and not-p
The Hollow
Aufhebung of Aufhebung Hegel

Overcoming overcoming Nietzsche

Thought in a loop
The Hollow
Thought in a loop

Loop as thing
The Sadness
Kantian beauty
Footprint of a thing in my inner space
undecidability, ambiguity
Ungraspabiility
Yet definite appearance
The Sadness
The Joy
Hamartia hubris Mbius strip Bergson
Tricksters
Trickster
What constitutes
pretense is that, in the
end, you dont know
whether its pretense or
not
Jacques Lacan
Past
F u t u r e
after presence
; )
And the sea isnt green
And I love the Queen
And what exactly is a dream
And what exactly is a joke?