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