Timothy Morton - Dark Ecological Chocolate

DARK ECOLOGY 2016
Timothy Morton - Dark Ecological Chocolate
10 June 2016 - NIBIO Svanhovd, Svanvik, Norway
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Dark ecology starts off dark as in depressing. Then it becomes dark as in mysterious. Then it ends dark as in sweet dark chocolate. In this lecture I'm going to provide an experiential map of dark ecology - a phenomenology of dark ecology, to be more precise. What are the chemicals that make up ecological awareness? I’m going to argue that they form a very distinctive pattern and that we are traversing through this pattern right now, as if we were eating into a chocolate. But we are only on our first or second bite. There are two more big bites to go. Once we have a feel for the phenomenology, we can figure out what kinds of art process and practice we want to involve ourselves in with a much greater sense of power and accuracy.

[@nickgeffen8316]

It just doesn't get better than this. Like, it just doesn't.

[@judithway824]

Awesome !

[@projectmalus]

Thanks for the upload. It can be hard to get away from reductionist style thinking and I think Morton speaks in the manner he does to thwart this reductionist style.

[@chrisray9653]

While still maintaining atheism!

[@theodore8178]

@@chrisray9653 This is pomo gibberish. What is is the chemical of dark ecological chocolate? It's chemical is what Derrida calls the hyperreal subspace of cartesian dualism. But it's not a hyperreal subspace at all until you make it the sex positive symbiotic real. Solidarity is the name for christian colinization in and of itself. It strips away the imperialist race class of set theoretic gender specificity. Its outer edges perforoate the powerset of partiarchial n space.

[@theodore8178]

@@chrisray9653 actual philosopher. Frege's the Thought. Frege discovered modern predicate logic and helped usher in the computer age. Frege didnt spout meaningless gibberish kzbin.info/www/bejne/qn6TgYODoreEh5I

[@AudioPervert1]

great lecture yet no one kept a count of how much energy was used or wasted to deliver all this wonderful info... What a lopsided late-stage civilisation we have arrived at... Chocolate eh!

[@biocykle]

was it really wasted?

[@emjanusz3490]

Part of Morton’s key tenants is that pleasure (i.e., this lecture) is not to be lost, but that the systems driving its achievements no longer be petro or agro centric.

[@nicolaslegros8458]

what does he say at 13:00 ?

[@beartrax89999]

it's about more pleasure than consumerism not less think he's suggesting that the pleasure restraint of the eco-puritan thinking doesn't bring us to friendly ecological living > it just binds and restricts everything into an ultra efficient model that can't help but impose damaging scales and hierarchys