hyperobject

is a thing like capitalism, which is massively distributed in time and space relative to humans.

things that are massively distributed in time and space relative to humans,'

is an object or issue so wide-reaching across time and space that we feel helpless when confronted by it.

An object or issue so wide-reaching across time and space that we feel helpless when confronted by it).

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.

The first form of reaction is the dissolution of the notion of world. The second reaction is the impossibility of maintaining cynical distance, the dominant ideological mode of our age (or rather, the time before the time of hyperobjects). The third reaction has to do with what kinds of aesthetic experience and practice are now thinkable in the time of hyperobjects' (24, italics original).

is a bundle of entities massively distributed in time and space that forms an entity in its own right, one that is impossible for humans to see or touch directly.

The human is what I call a “hyperobject”: a bundle of entities massively distributed in time and space that forms an entity in its own right, one that is impossible for humans to see or touch directly.

 disappears “downwards,” not upwards, into something paradoxically more physical and thus more fragile than the beings that comprise them.

Appearance never expresses the whole, or let alone anything greater than the whole. Hyperobjects disappear “downwards,” not upwards, into something paradoxically more physical and thus more fragile than the beings that comprise them.

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hyperobject