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Victorian Hyperobjects

Timothy Morton
Hyperobjects
Massively distributed
We can think and compute them
But not perceive them
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Anthropocene
1784+ Carbon in Earths crust
1945+ Radioactive materials
Earth systems influenced by humans
Human history <> geological time
Paul Crutzen
Me .0. Species
Where .0.= is in a loop with
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that this world was being watched keenly
and closely by intelligences greater than
mans and yet as mortal as his own

as men busied themselves about their
various concerns they were scrutinized and
studied

across the gulf of spaceintellects vast
and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this
earth with envious eyes, and slowly and
surely drew their plans against us. And
early in the twentieth century came the
great disillusionment. H.G. Wells
Great Disillusionments
Phenomenonthing gap Kant
Reasoning, mathematizing Subject (not me)
Withdrawn yet uncannily near



Futural
Deep temporality Agrilogistics
Hyperobjects
Massively distributed
We can think and compute them
But not perceive

Viscosity
Nonlocality
Phasing
Interobjectivity
Dim and wonderful is the vision I have
conjured up in my mind of life spreading
slowly from this little seed-bed of the solar
system throughout the inanimate vastness of
sidereal space. H.G. Wells

Hyperobjects
Evolution
Electromagnetism
El Nio and La Nia
The unconscious
What constitutes pretense is that,
in the end, you dont know whether
its pretense or not Lacan
Something Is Wrong
There is a gap between a thing and its phenomena
But we cant locate that gap anywhere on the
things ontic surface or in its depths
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Very large finitude

The Post-Kantian Trickster
Play
this world was being watched keenly and closely
by intelligences greater than mans and yet as
mortal as his own
Me .0. Species
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The Origin of Species ; )
Fixed Darwin
Viscosity
Dim and wonderful is the vision I have
conjured up in my mind of life spreading
slowly from this little seed-bed of the solar
system throughout the inanimate vastness of
sidereal space. H.G. Wells

some grains of wheat, found by Sir G. Wilkinson in a
grave at Thebeslying for three thousand years. They
were found in a hermetically sealed vase.

twelve grains, and from them had a plant which had
grown to a height of five feet, whose seeds were now
perfectly ripe

a bulbous rootin the hand of an Egyptian mummyat
least two thousand years oldin a flower-pot, where it
had at once grown up and was flourishing

a pea-plant, producing a full crop of peas, that came
from a pea taken from a vasefound in an Egyptian
sarcophagus where it must have been lying for 2,844
years.

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