Timothy Morton
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Abstract labor time is like a soul that capitalism forces into my body, making me into a Cartesian or Aristotelian zombie, a tool with a soul.
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The Adult is defined by the nature of our interaction with non-humans. In adult books, nonhumans don’t speak and aren’t on an equal footing with humans.
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An Algorithm is an automated past, where, for example, the programming of self-driving cars always represent past states of human style.
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An Algorithm is simply a recipe: take two eggs, beat them, stir in a heated pan with some butter for a few moments—hey presto, a small bowl of scrambled eggs.
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Alienation is you spontaneous bits of “nature” that capitalism can turn into blank screens for value computation.
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Alienation is alienation of our futural being, for we are defined by being futural (while how we appear is our past).
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Altruism is a self-defeating setup. How can you, a self, allow yourself to be un-selfish?
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The Anthropocene is the time at which the human becomes truly thinkable in a non-teleological, non-metaphysical sense.
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The Anthropocene is like experiencing a rain of human sweat that had accumulated on the ceiling after hours and hours of techno dancing in a club. Parts of everyone are falling, alien, damp, warm, back onto everyone, because of our own repetitive churning.
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The Anthropocene is one of the first truly anti-anthropocentric concepts because via thinking the Anthropocene, we get to see the concept of “species” as it really is— species as a subscendent hyperobject, brittle and inconsistent.
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The Anthropocene is the moment at which humans come to recognize humankind, insofar as it subscends its parts (such as plastics and concretes in Earth’s strata).
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The Anthropocene is the moment at which 'species' as such becomes thinkable in a non-metaphysical way, such that humankind cannot rigidly exclude nonhumans.
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Anthropomorphism is always treated with arbitrary boundaries. We can let elephants be hungry when they look hungry, but we have trouble allowing that they are happy when they look happy.
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Anthropomorphization is mutual — But this is not a prison without windows, because as I anthropomorphize this bunch of grapes, the grapes are grape-morphizing my fingers and my mouth, causing me to handle them just so. Anyone who has taken drugs will tell you that there is a more or less “right” way to handle them—one is drug-morphized. Everything is in the –morphizing business.
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A Hyperobject is a thing like capitalism, which is massively distributed in time and space relative to humans.
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A Hyperobject is an object or issue so wide-reaching across time and space that we feel helpless when confronted by it.
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The Hyperobject is, in its immense scale, such that it invites the dissolution of the notion of world, forecloses cynical distance (the dominant ideological mode of our age) and invites new aesthetic experience and practice.