"Timothy Morton is one of the authors leading the new wave of environmentalism. The British thinker, whose latest work is provocative and extremely personal, takes it as a point of fact that the destruction of the planet is in process. Admired by the singer Bjork and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the artistic director of the modernist London gallery Serpentine, Morton comes across as a punk creative, one who has kept up the fight against preconceived thinking."
"He is also one of the authors who has best described the anguish we feel every time we turn on our car engine or air conditioner, fully aware that doing so brings us closer to the end of our species. The professor at Rice University in Houston, where he lives, has also penned a dozen books in which he speaks of climate change as something so massive that it defies comprehension (Hyperobjects), about how to inhabit the Earth once we have destroyed it (Hyposubjects),"
A British environmental thinker frames planetary destruction as already underway and associates daily actions like driving and using air conditioning with existential anguish. He defines 'hyperobjects' as phenomena so physically vast and temporally extended that humans perceive only minute fragments and cannot fully measure them. The biosphere serves as a friendly hyperobject; other classes include forms of human interaction. A series of books treats climate change's incomprehensibility (Hyperobjects), strategies for inhabiting Earth after severe degradation (Hyposubjects), and imaginative attempts to escape pollution via cultural icons (Spacecraft). Personal experiences of childhood abuse inform his thinking, and a 2023 marriage led to an unexpected embrace of Jesus.
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