Hyperobjects 2.

0:
Oil Remix

diatoms, forms of plankton that gave rise to oil

Timothy Morton
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed
—Gerard Manley Hopkins
By coming to terms with an increasing range
of objects, human beings do not become
nihilistic princes of darkness, but actually the
most sincere creatures the earth has ever
seen
—Graham Harman, Guerilla Metaphysics, 247
1. Dancing about
Architecture

NOAA
 Object-Oriented Ontology
(OOO)

realism (AI and anti-AI theory)

(panpsychism)
withdrawal

real objects sensual objects

Object-Oriented Ontology
(OOO)

Malkovichism
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Goddard Institute for Space Studies

2. Grey Goo
Martin Heidegger, Bestand
Martin Heidegger, Bestand
 Martin Heidegger, Bestand

Edward Burtynsky, Manufactured Landscapes

dir. Jennifer Baichwal (2006)
3. The End of the World

My Bloody Valentine, “Only Shallow”

Loveless (Creation, 1992)
miasma
 Roman Jakobson
code

addresser message addressee

contact phatic statements

context
 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 an
accident, 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
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Goddard Institute for Space Studies

vanadium porphyrin
chlorophyll a
from petroleuma
NOAA
there is no such thing as a “horizon”
Graham Harman, Tool-Being
(Open Court, 2002), p. 155
 The Three Timescales

1) Frightening timescale
Several hundred years

2) Horrifying timescale
Thirty thousand years

3) Petrifying timescale
One hundred thousand years
4. 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 ‘deep further fact, distinct from physical
and 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 lives
of others.

Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons

(Oxford, 1984), 281
(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

Jacques Derrida, l’arrivant

The future future
OOO, “object”

Joseph Jastrow,
Duck-rabbit illusion
5. Hyperviscosity
Banksy
viscosity
Comora Tolliver, Pod