Timothy Morton: Subscendence
Thursday 26 February
11:50 - 12:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
Timothy Morton
We have all heard of transcendence. But what about the inverse, where something shrinks into its component pieces in such a way that the whole is always less than the sum of its parts? In this talk Morton explains why this new concept is very useful for thinking ecological beings. In an ecological world, beings are necessarily fragile and incomplete, even the massive ones. And all kinds of contemporary phenomena (megacities, global warming), the hyperobjects, are subscendent in precisely this way.
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Part of
Session 1: Earth Magnitude
Thursday 26 February
10:30 - 12:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
Timothy Morton & Douglas Kahn & Mark Williams
In the first panel we consider some of the consequences of the thesis of the Anthropocene, and what it means to imagine events on a geologic scale.