Graham Harman: Morton’s Hyperobjects and the Anthropocene
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Graham Harman: Morton’s Hyperobjects and the Anthropocene
26 November 2015 - Samfundshuset Kirkenes, Kirkenes, Norway
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For his lecture Morton’s Hyperobjects and the Anthropocene Graham Harman will consider the similarities and differences of the terms ‘hyperobjects’, coined by Timothy Morton, and ‘anthropocene objects’. The concept of Hyperobjects refers to entities that are so vast in spatial or temporal scale as to exceed the usual dimensions of a human life. By contrast, Harman describes anthroposcene objects as entities that require human beings as one of their components, even if they are not exhausted by human access to them. While hyperobjects push ecology toward the priority of the non-human, the anthropocene might seem to do the opposite. Harman will subsequently continue his lecture by considering the intellectual implications of both terms.
"Hyperobjects", by Timothy Morton is one of my two favorite books. The other; "The Meaning of Human Existence", by Edward O. Wilson. Both profound and deep in meaning.
Great talk!
Thanks! I was trying to understand OOO, and this video was a great in! Sadly was hoping to learn abit more about Morton's ideas of Dark Ecology and Hyperobjects, but Harman seemed a lot more occupied with charting the work leading up to Morton. Still a great video tho :)
This was a lot of fun and harman's clearly full of insight, but I also find his anecdotal response to 'life as flows' towards the a bit too masturbatory ("life has really five or six phases...") and very revealing of what kinds of lives harman envisions when thinking change and thinking politics.
literally every talk harman does is the exact same historical narrative. still interesting though
The only dark thing here is the video.
For Norwegians it's probably beautiful-winter-morning-lighting
Very useful in parts, why Latour has no politics (until he inserts himself into Climate Science in 2003, writes that all he had written about ANT and Science was wrong).
Yet it is not quite right that ANT makes all relations equal or that it is all flow, or else sociological or ethnographic studies could never be written.
I was hoping you might be able to elaborate on this a bit more.
Academics means hiding from real policy changes let the Administration corporate-controlled then fires the professor. "I hope this professor has tenure" to quote the lawyer running the University of Minnesota (where Timothy Morton's book was published)
Overall good lecture, but some yada yada in the last part
Interesting.
My take..
It was all very palletable and approved until he got to the more strike at home part... schmitt, hyoerobjects, power politics etc
so experiences...are objects, or events ....its all word stew really....I like the fact that we are gaining "ground" on this...ground made entirely of air
this guy reminds me of brent from the show corner gas.
No es tan buena la charla recién menciona los hiperobjetos al minuto 41:53
Yea, but it all came together. Good lecture
I enjoy these topics, but I am left to think that these are philosophers ... yes, true, yes ... packaging their ideas with a superficial new layer (i.e., climate change). This might be due to the fact that we have had relative stability in the climate for the last 5,000 years. "I incinerate before the sun, therefore, I am" ... not quite timely at the moment.
That "relative stability" is now gone- that's the real problem for our species (and many, many others).
Its much better than the propaganda saturated super cereal apocalypse climate change story the medias trying to shove down everyones throats... these guys are saying that its a pretty big problem which will get worse and worse over time and could eventually kill us.