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The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy...to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up." The ecological thought "...is a vast, sprawling mesh of interconnection without a definite center or edge. It is radical intimacy, coexistence with other beings, sentient and otherwise.

Timothy Morton

The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.

Timothy Morton

Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.

Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton

Born: June 19, 1968 (age 56)

Bio: Timothy Bloxam Morton is Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. A member of the object-oriented philosophy movement, Morton's work explores the intersection of object-oriented thought and ecological studies.

Known for:

Ecology without Nature (2007)
The Ecological Thought (2010)
Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (2013)
Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite (2004)

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