This collection of images places Lo Ch'ing within this artistic field, investigating how his work draws attention to the situation of humans, animals, and plants—and their interdependence—in the context of global modernity. Clay Shirky, prominent thinker on the Internet and its social and economic consequences, and author of Here Comes Everybody, in The Atlantic. Their concept of 'truthiness'-- the grainy, broken, inconsistent appearance of truth in reality and more intensely in art- is quite compelling.

What is essential to this experience, says Morton (brilliantly, I think), “boils down to ambiguity: how things can appear to be oscillating between familiar and strange. As somebody only versed in Philosophy through the likes of Contrapoints and Philosophy Tube, this was a big jump.

One of the difficulties that I often find with ecology is the ego from some humans thinking that it can only be things that are actions from human hands and control. By questioning the notions of deep ecology, environmentalism, and nature writing, Morton proposes a myriad of authenticating devices for interpreting works of art gathered around a complex ideological network of beliefs of what is thought as the natural world. There were a few original thoughts or ideas in-between, like the concept of hyperobejcts for example, or that we are beyond listing factoids about ecological collapse. Shouldn’t the opening sentence of his book be something more like, “You ARE living through an age of mass extinction?

And he reminds is that something peculiar can happen to people as they stand in front of great works of art.As part of the Penguin Classics Green Ideas Timothy Morton's ' p rovocative and playful, All Art is Ecological explores the strangeness of living in an age of mass extinction, and shows us that emotions and experience are the basis for a deep philosophical engagement with ecology. Provocative and playful, All Art is Ecological explores the strangeness of living in an age of mass extinction, and shows us that emotions and experience are the basis for a deep philosophical engagement with ecology.

While there remains a subtle pop thread that weaves through the canvas on Waterflower’s new album, All Art Is Ecological, there is also a meditative spirit that underpins these recordings. In this paper, I take a critical look at the stated motivations and experienced outcomes of climate change art, by analyzing the statements of over 20 artists and the comments made by curators, critics and members of the general public. Morton co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future's Past , a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. Even if they have never broken down and cried, I think most people have felt overwhelmed by the presence of a great work of art. Not to say that we shouldn’t take responsibility for the choices that we make, and any resulting negative impact, but this takes that wider view of human vs non human sharing of the planet.Provocative and playful, ‘All Art is Ecological’ explores the strangeness of living in an age of mass extinction, and shows us that emotions and experience are the basis for a deep philosophical engagement with ecology. This pocket/bite-sized essay (originally published in 2018) is volume 3 in the Penguin Green Ideas collection, which, apparently, is not available for sale (in the slipcase collection) in the U. I found myself enthralled by his ecological thinking - incorporating the uncanny, strangeness, co-existence, poetry, the subjunctive mood - the kind of thinking and writing that seems to well articulate things you might feel and sense flickering in the shadows.

Quarks Daily started in 2004 with the idea of creating a curated retreat for everything intellectual on the web. Full disclosure there are parts of "all art is ecological" that are really excessive and rambley (pretentious? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Morton is urging us to revolutionize the way we see the world; for it is in this lack of understanding of interconnectedness that is leading to our ruin. The sounds of an egregore slowly hatching—a sonic ectoplasm leak, result of intense pressures and overlapping cyclical mythologies. org ) and Giovanni Aloi - Editor in Chief of Antennae Journal and Professors at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Sotheby’s Institute of Art.