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Timothy Morton

Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics

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  • Надя Дегтяреваhar citeretfor 9 år siden
    Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is a paradoxical act of sadistic admiration
  • Надя Дегтяреваhar citeretfor 9 år siden
    There must be a movement at least from A to not-A.
  • Надя Дегтяреваhar citeretfor 9 år siden
    As well as pointing, in a highly politicized way, to society, critique points toward itself.
  • Надя Дегтяреваhar citeretfor 9 år siden
    The point is not to attain any special state of mind at all. The point is to go against the grain of dominant, normative ideas about nature, but to do so in the name of sentient beings suffering under catastrophic environmental conditions.
  • Надя Дегтяреваhar citeretfor 9 år siden
    an aesthetic state of meditative calm that we could then (falsely) associate with some sort of "ecological awareness.
  • Надя Дегтяреваhar citeretfor 9 år siden
    But ultimately, theory (and meditation, for that matter) is not supposed to make you a "better person" in any sense. It is supposed to expose hypocrisy, or if you prefer, to examine the ways in which ideological illusions maintain their grip
  • Надя Дегтяреваhar citeretfor 9 år siden
    My readings try to be symptomatic rather than comprehensive
  • Надя Дегтяреваhar citeretfor 9 år siden
    picking up the vibrations of a material universe and recording them with high fidelity—inevitably ignores the subject, and thus cannot fully come to terms with an ecology that may manifest itself in beings who are also persons—including, perhaps, those other beings we designate as animals
  • Надя Дегтяреваhar citeretfor 9 år siden
    consumerism is a discourse about identity
  • Надя Дегтяреваhar citeretfor 9 år siden
    to keep one step ahead of the ideological forces that ecological writing generates
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