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HYPEROBJECTS

Timothy Morton



1. Unsustaining



Martin Heidegger, Bestand







Edward Burtynsky, Manufactured Landscapes

dir . Jennifer Baichwal (2006)



Pu 239



2. The End of the World



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Roman Jakobson

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Godard Institute for Space Studies



Aristotle

Suppose, for instance, that in the season of the

Cynosure [the Dog Days of summer] arctic cold

were to prevail, this we would regard as anaccident, whereas, if there were a sweltering

heatwave, we would not. And this is because

the latter, unlike the former, is always or for the

most part the case.

Metaphysics, Epsilon 2, tr . Hugh Lawson-

Tancred (Penguin, 1999), 158±9











there is no such thing as a ³horizon´Graham Harman, Tool-Being

(Open Court, 2002), p. 155



3. Hyperobjects



Is the truth [of no-self] depressing? Some may find it so. But

I find it liberating, and consoling. When I believed that my

existence was [a µdeep further fact, distinct from physicaland psychological continuity, and a fact that must be all-or-

nothing¶], I seemed imprisoned in myself . My life seemed

like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every

year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I

changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared.

I now live in the open air . There is still a difference between

my life and the lives of other people. But that difference is

less. Other people are closer . I am less concerned about

the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the livesof others.

Derek Parfit, R easons and Persons

(Oxford, 1984), 281



http://www.rockyflatsnuclearguardianship.org/



(1) If you both betray each other you will receive

five years in jail.

(2) If one of you betrays and the other is silent,the betrayed one will receive ten years in jail.

(3) If you both remain silent, you will each get

six months for a minor charge.

The Prisoner¶s Dilemma



The Strange Stranger

Joseph Jastrow,

Duck-rabbit illusion

Jacques Derrida, l¶ arrivant

OOO, ³object´







Timbre







Tuning

Stimmung

Martin Heidegger,W

hat Is Phi lo

so phy?,tr . and intro. Jean T. Wilde and William Kluback (Lanham, MD:

Rowan and Littlefield, 2003), 77 ±91.

Theatre of Eternal Music, T he Tort oise, His Dreams and J ourneys

La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, John Cale,Tony Conrad, Angus MacLise



Tuning

Stimmung

Martin Heidegger,W

hat Is Phi lo

so phy?,tr . and intro. Jean T. Wilde and William Kluback (Lanham, MD:

Rowan and Littlefield, 2003), 77 ±91.

La Monte Young, 31 VII 69



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