Fascinated with object oriented ontology, or OOO. To me right now, it basically means the realization that people's perceptions are not the center of the universe. We are only part of the larger ecology (duh, if a tree falls in the woods it makes a sound to all the animals that live in it).
A few names: Graham Harmon, The Life of Tools
Timothy Morton is a professor of ecology at UC Davis, he coined the term Hyper-objects, which is something so large that it can't be accurately assessed in a single dimension... there are other criteria (see below). He identifies climate change as one of these "objects".
I realize my invasives project is related to this coin,
as one can not visualize a hyperobject,
only its related effects or parts.
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Pop culture counts, and the population is a hyperobject.
so,
The qualities of a hyperobject are:
- Viscous: Hyperobjects adhere to any other object they touch, no matter how hard an object tries to resist. In this way, hyperobjects overrule ironic distance, meaning that the more an object tries to resist a hyperobject, the more glued to the hyperobject it becomes.[64]
- Molten: Hyperobjects are so massive that they refute the idea that spacetime is fixed, concrete, and consistent.[65]
- Nonlocal: Hyperobjects are massively distributed in time and space to the extent that their totality cannot be realized in any particular local manifestation. For example, global warming is a hyperobject that impacts meteorological conditions, such as tornado formation. According to Morton, though, objects don't feel global warming, but instead experience tornadoes as they cause damage in specific places. Thus, nonlocality describes the manner in which a hyperobject becomes more substantial than the local manifestations they produce.[66]
- Phased: Hyperobjects occupy a higher dimensional space than other entities can normally perceive. Thus, hyperobjects appear to come and go in three-dimensional space, but would appear differently to an observer with a higher multidimensional view.[67]
- Interobjective: Hyperobjects are formed by relations between more than one object. Consequently, objects are only able to perceive to the imprint, or "footprint," of a hyperobject upon other objects, revealed as information. For example, global warming is formed by interactions between the Sun, fossil fuels, and carbon dioxide, among other objects. Yet, global warming is made apparent through emissions levels, temperature changes, and ocean levels, making it seem as if global warming is a product of scientific models, rather than an object that predated its own measurement.[68]
You can find more about object oriented ontology, beginning at the wiki page.
In my work, dear random blog Readers,
I hope to coalesce the body and the landscape; not possesively, but as an embodiment of ecological awareness. I do wonder about approaching the TOE or Theory of Everything. How would one address the glue, as opposed to the matter?
"Nature is not natural and and can not be naturalized"
---Graham Harmon
