Enter the Nonhuman

A New Phase in Aesthetics

Tim Morton

The Time of Hyperobjects

Biosphere

Climate
Evolution
What does it mean to be an entity?

Global warming
Nuclear materials

Population
Pollution

Anthropocene
1790 1945 Carbon Deposits Great Acceleration Plutonium

Anthropocene

Trinity Test at 0.016 Seconds

Anthropocene

Lars von Trier, Melancholia

Pull Focus (dolly zoom)

The End of Away

Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho

The Age of Asymmetry

We are all hypocrites

Caspar David Friedrich, The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Wolves in the Throne Room

Revenge of the Nonhumans

Hegels Aesthetics
Symbolic object > spirit

Classical
Romantic

object = spirit
object < spirit

Age of Asymmetry (object = spirit) (object spirit)

Romantic Phase
chromaticism Mahler narrative equal temperament Anthropocene piano

Into Asymmetry
piano John Cage La Monte Young just intonation

Anthropocene

Piano as Nonhuman

Bridget Riley, Fall Beethoven, Piano Sonata 8

La Monte Young, The WellTuned Piano

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 Chgyam Trungpa

Tuning
MAD rhapsode Demon weakness Ion the capacity to tune

Constructivism vs. Object Orientation

a thing that looks to you like a jellyfish, so you dive into it and try to eat it but it covers your fins so they cant move as before and there is a heaviness on your carapace and head that wasnt there before, and you are blind in the waters of your birth Sheryl St. Germain Butoh Wordsworth Banksy Sartre

the sticky death of the in-itself

Butoh

Sankai Juku

Ami Yoshida

Banksy, Pier Pressure

Viscosity

Zone Imperative Alphonso Lingis

Francisco Lopez, La Selva Robert Ashley, She Was a Visitor 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.

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