You’re Not Making Ecological Art Yet: Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton:

„One can’t “make” ecological art, in the sense of doing something radically different from what is happening now, for the precise and ironic reason that everything one does is already an expression of one’s symbiotic coexistence with a host of lifeforms in a biosphere. Thinking ecological art requires that we change what we mean when we say “make.” This talk is about that.“

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory in 2014 and has collaborated with Björk, Haim Steinbach and Olafur Eliasson. He is the author of Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), eight other books and 160 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food.

Blog: http://www.ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/ Twitter: @the_eco_thought