Humankind
Solidarity with Nonhuman People

Timothy Morton’s contribution to object-oriented ontology (000) involves expanding Marxism to include all beings. Not just humans. But animals and plants too. Morton seeks to re-construe ethics such that: An assault to ONE Is an assault to ALL. Polar bears and frogs are people too. Mass extinction is m......more

Reading this book was like having the conversation that comes at the end of the film "Her," but where I, the reader, realize that Tim, with Alan Watts/Buddhist flavors, has achieved like a quantum capacity beyond my capacity to imagine. BUT, unlike in "Her," I didn't feel narcissistic and depressed t......more

I’ve read a lot of Morton, and probably with the huge mistake of not totally immersing myself in Graham Harman and the other OOO-types in advance. I might actually hate Morton, but also find myself bursting out in laughter when he writes things like “again I must be the devil,” because I think he so......more

As a representative of OOO- Object Oriented Ontology- Timothy Morton rejects "Correlationalism" which is the tendency for Philosophy to persistently have only two options - Is reality a construct of the human mind? or is the human mind the product of physical substantial objectivity? A third conside......more

*151st Climate Book* This was another book I put down early in the pandemic in favour of comfort reading and recently picked back up again. Good thing, because this was definitely more digestible in a better frame of mind. But only in comparison, rather than in absolute terms: Morton is an academic ph......more