Enter the NonhumanA New Phase in Aesthetics

Tim Morton

The Time of Hyperobjects

Biosphere

Climate

Evolution

Global warming

Nuclear materials

Population

Pollution

What does it mean to be an entity?

Anthropocene

1790 Carbon Deposits

1945 Great Acceleration

Plutonium

Anthropocene

Trinity Test at 0.016 Seconds

Lars von Trier, Melancholia

Anthropocene

Pull Focus (dolly zoom)

The End of Away

Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho

The Age of Asymmetry

Caspar David Friedrich, The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

“We are all hypocrites”

Wolves in the Throne Room

Revenge of the Nonhumans

Hegel’s Aesthetics

Symbolic object > spirit

Classical object = spirit

Romantic object < spirit

Age of Asymmetry (object = spirit)

∧(object ≠ spirit)

Romantic Phase

chromaticism

Mahler

narrative

equal temperament piano

Anthropocene

Into Asymmetry

piano

John Cage

La Monte Young

just intonation

Anthropocene

Piano as Nonhuman

Bridget Riley, Fall

La Monte Young, The Well-Tuned Piano

Beethoven, Piano Sonata 8

The Age of Asymmetry

Object-Oriented Ontology

Anthropocene

irony

“there is no metalanguage”

The Age of Asymmetry

“They were going to make me a major for this, and I wasn't even in their Army anymore” Apocalypse Now

“The vicissitudes of this life are like drowning in a glass pond” Chögyam Trungpa

Tuning

MAD

rhapsode Ion

Demon δαιμϖν

weakness the capacity to tune

Constructivism vs. Object Orientation

a thing that looks to youlike a jellyfish, so you dive into it and try to

eat itbut it covers your fins so they can’t move as

before and there is a heaviness on your carapace and head

that wasn’t there before, and you are blind in the waters of your birth

Sheryl St. Germain

Butoh WordsworthBanksySartre “the sticky death of the in-itself”

Butoh

Ami YoshidaSankai Juku

Banksy, Pier Pressure

Viscosity

ZoneImperativeAlphonso Lingis

John F. Simon, Every Icon

Given: An icon described by a 32 X 32 grid.   Allowed: Any element of the grid to be colored black or white.  

Shown: Every icon.

Robert Ashley, She Was a Visitor

Francisco Lopez, La Selva

Jarrod Fowler, Percussion Ensemble

Marije de Haas, Wellness Over Time

Chris Wainwright

Comora Tolliver, Pod

Lameness

Object fails to coincide with its appearance-for another object (including itself)

Inconsistency

Fragility

The Rift

Whales within Whales

Twinkle, twinkle little star

David Cronenberg, Videodrome

Charnel Ground, Mount Kailash (Tibet)

Charnel Ground, Mount Kailash (Tibet)

Charnel Ground

Edward Burtynsky

Charnel Ground

Charnel Ground

Earthrise Pale Blue Dot