Hyperobjects

Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Posthumanities)

By: Timothy Morton

Narrated by: Dave Wright

Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls "hyperobjects" - entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is in the first place. In this book, Morton explains what hyperobjects are and their impact on how we think, how we coexist with one another and with nonhumans, and how we experience our politics, ethics, and art.

Moving fluidly between philosophy, science, literature, visual and conceptual art, and popular culture, the book argues that hyperobjects show that the end of the world has already occurred in the sense that concepts such as world, nature, and even environment are no longer a meaningful horizon against which human events take place. Instead of inhabiting a world, we find ourselves inside a number of hyperobjects, such as climate, nuclear weapons, evolution, or relativity. Such objects put unbearable strains on our normal ways of reasoning.

Insisting that we have to reinvent how we think to even begin to comprehend the world we now live in, Hyperobjects takes the first steps, outlining a genuinely postmodern ecological approach to thought and action.

©2013 Timothy Morton (P)2014 Redwood Audiobooks

Compelling theory, bland presentation

For a theoretical narrative with such gravitas, it is presented in a disappointingly monotone expression.

Narration

I agree with the earlier comments about the narration, which is disastrous. Numerous foreign names and words are mispronounced to the point of being unintelligible. Overall the reading style itself is robotic and sounds almost computer-generated at times; it sounds like the narrator is reading a phone book and has no clue what he's talking about.

so much to meditate upon

I loved it, there's alot of information and it's quite intriguing to think about. something interesting to obsess over

Viscous Verbage

One of the most important books I’ve ever encountered. A must read for any human or non-human being.

Chewable, indigestible

I found this work to be extremely inspiring. the things that I have learned and the conceptions that I take away I will chew on for a very long time, but I don't think that I will ever really get an answer. Morton does a fantastic job of weaving deep disciplinary discussion with pop culture and a sometimes scathing humor.