Sentences with phrase «on hyperobjects»

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Morton has characterized the phase we are in as the «Asymmetrical Phase» in which forces beyond our cognition that he calls «hyperobjects» take on a life of their own, much like the objects we create and house in a Museum develop a life removed from their maker.

Both authors will discuss the relationship of the idea of the avant to their own work and the extent to which it is or isn't a useful way to think about ideas of time and temporality, newness and oldness, chronology and succession, beforeness and afterness, and the layered, textured, multi — species spaces in which culture (and not just human culture) happens: Morton in relation to his writings on literature, art, music, and ecology in landmark texts such as Ecology Without Nature, The Ecological Thought, Hyperobjects, and Dark Ecology; and Wolfe in relation to his work as both author (Critical Environments, Animal Rites, and What Is Posthumanism?)

The show is a group exhibition inspired by the ideas in his book about his invented term: «the hyperobject,» which he writes, «describe [s] all kinds of things that you can study and think about and compute, but that are not so easy to see directly... not just a styrofoam cup or two, but all the styrofoam on Earth, ever.»

Ballroom Marfa also opens Hyperobjects on April 13, a group exhibition co-organized by philosopher and Rice University professor Timothy Morton and Ballroom Marfa Director & Curator Laura Copelin, and involves «engaging ideas from Morton's theory to confront the overwhelming scale of today's ecological crisis.»