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Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton Biography

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Timothy Morton is a prominent scholar in the fields of contemporary cultural theory, ecological criticism, and literary criticism. His research spans a wide range of areas including animal rights, ecological philosophy, internet culture, and posthumanism.

Timothy Morton is a prominent scholar in the fields of contemporary cultural theory, ecological criticism, and literary criticism. His research spans a wide range of areas including animal rights, ecological philosophy, internet culture, and posthumanism.

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“When you see evil as a thing apart from yourself "over there," you can fly a plane into it or destroy it with a powerful bomb. You can justify murder. Evil is the gaze that sees evil as a thing apart from me.”

Book:Being Ecological

Source: Being Ecological

“Perhaps indifference itself is pointing to a way to care for humans and nonhumans in a less violent way- simply allowing them to exist, like pieces of paper in your hand, like a story you might appreciate- or not- for no reason.”

Philosophy Care Ecology

Book:Being Ecological

Source: Being Ecological

“Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.”

Doe Environment Figures Admiration Patriarchy Paradoxical Pedestal Afar Admiring Sadistic

Book:Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics

Source: Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics

“Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred years of seeing humans at the center of existence, and now the objects take revenge, terrifyingly huge, ancient, long-lived, threateningly minute, invading every cell in our body.”

Years Humans Long Two Body Existence Seeing Minutes Objects Huge Horror Hundred Ancient Revenge Cells Idealism Splendor Sparkling Unleashed Manifold Invading

Author:Timothy Morton

“The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy...to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up." The ecological thought "...is a vast, sprawling mesh of interconnection without a definite center or edge. It is radical intimacy, coexistence with other beings, sentient and otherwise.”

World Earth Faces Easy Crisis Edges Obvious Radical Intimacy Our World Definite Ecological Dots Interconnected Coexistence Interconnection Mesh Ecological Crisis

Author:Timothy Morton

“The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.”

Knows Talking Assumption Derrida

Book:The Ecological Thought

Source: The Ecological Thought

About the Author

Born: June 19, 1968
Known for: Author
Quotes: 6

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