Lepkość
Viscosity
Author(s): Timothy MortonSubject(s): Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Human Ecology, Environmental interactions, Hermeneutics, Ontology
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: hyperobjects; viscosity; ecological crisis; speculative realism; object oriented ontology;
Summary/Abstract: While in his book Hyperobjects Morton describes a new type of objects, the section on viscosity represents an attempt to take a distanced position towards hyperobjects. With this revaluation, however, his position becomes quite the opposite, namely engaged, subjective and expressive, marked by an insistence that hyperobjects precede thinking and cannot be described. Morton furnishes examples from a broad range of fields, including music (My Bloody Valentine), film (Twin Peaks), literature (John Donne) and philosophy (Kant, Sartre, Heidegger), which reflects the aesthetic nature of hyperobjects. At the same time, Morton draws on quantum physics and relativity theory and cites examples of the most disastrous ecological crises. The titular viscosity is presented above all in the context of those crises, as an essential feature of the dangerous hyperobjects whose emanations we are observing today.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 284-295
- Page Count: 12
- Language: Polish
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