scholarly journals Timothy Morton, Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People. London and New York: Verso, 2019, 224 pp., ISBN 9781788731003

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Xiaoli Yang
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Philosophical Issue ◽  
Critical Resource ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology

Abstract: What makes humans and nonhumans ecological beings in the wake of the Anthropocene? Timothy Morton’s Humankind invites us to consider this philosophical issue as intrinsically aesthetic, ethical, and political. Through his illuminating terminology, Morton argues that becoming human is to understand that we are in fact embedded in the network of solidarity and kindness with nonhumans. Being ecological, for Morton, means being spectral and capable of appreciating the spectrality, pleasure, and beauty of nonhuman beings. In our relationship with nonhuman beings, we are the actants who should overcome our troubled anthropocentrism and mull over what makes us humans, physically and experientially. By putting Marxism, object-oriented ontology, and political ecology into dialogue, Morton revisits the implicit inclusion of nonhuman beings in Marxism, revealing that Marxism can still serve as a critical resource of thinking through a kind of communist existence shared by all ecological beings.

scholarly journals On the Nature of Public Interiority

Interiority ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Teston
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Real World ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Places

This essay explores the intersection between interiority, urbanism, and the human perception. I view interiority as a condition of the senses rather than an indoor place.  Revelations of interiority can be discovered within urban realm, in public spaces, and in intimate interior conditions. I am especially interested in “public interiority” or these cases of interiority that can be found in exterior urban places. Understanding interiority as a perceived condition grounds the built environment in phenomenology, varied human experiences,  and everyday conditions. Herein, I begin with an ontology of interiority, which focuses on various ways of perceiving the nature of things – phenomenology, structuralism and object-oriented-ontology (OOO). From there, I will analyze a taxonomy of public interiorities including various strains of form-based, programmatic, atmospheric, and psychological public interiorities. Using real-world examples from my previous research in Bucharest, Romania, New York and [location hidden] as well as well-established examples in art and design, I will then analyze various urban experiences of interiority and the way built conditions shape experience. In this way, I will bring the interior to the city.

scholarly journals Słabe, chrome i skołowaciałe. O praktycznych wymiarach teorii ekokrytycznych.

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-149
Author(s):  
Tymon Adamczewski
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology

Autor omawia w artykule współczesne osiągnięcia dyskursów ekokrytyki, próbując odczytać je przez pryzmat słabej myśli. Główna uwaga poświęcona jest intrygującym propozycjom teoretycznym Timothy‟ego Mortona dotyczącym hiperobiektów, które ukazane zostają w kontekście OOO (object-oriented ontology), a które uznać można za przykłady innego sposobu uprawiania teorii i praktyki akademickiej. Wykorzystując pojęcie veering (skołowacenia) Nicholasa Royle‟a, autor wskazuje zalety osadzenia rozważań w „osłabionej”, nieantropocentrycznej perspektywie, która stanowi alternatywę dla bardziej dydaktycznych i opartych na poczuciu winy dyskursów krytycznych.

scholarly journals TRADUCCIÓN POST-HUMANA EN LA CUARTA FASE DEL CAPITALISMO GLOBAL: TECNOLOGÍAS DIGITALES, LENGUAJES SENSORIALES Y BIG DATA. UN ACERCAMIENTO CRÍTICO DESDE EL ARTE

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 215-234
Author(s):  
Federica Matelli
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Aesthetic Concepts

A partir del concepto de traducción y de comunidad de humanos y no – humanos de Bruno Latour, y retomando algunos conceptos estéticos centrales en la OOO (Ontología Orientada a los Objetos), este articulo expone un tipo de traducción post-humana estrechamente relacionada con la situación global del capitalismo computacional. En este orden extremo del capitalismo global, que está gobernado por algoritmos y condicionado por techno - políticas, la difusión transnacional de las tecnologías digitales instaura un lenguaje sensorial único que traduce, uniformándolas, culturas distintas y al mismo tiempo garantiza el control sobre el presente y el futuro por medio del Big Data, así como nos advierte Armen Avanessian. Su máximo agente es el design de objetos tecnológicos y servicios. A partir de esta constatación se aporta el ejemplo de un proyecto artístico que, trabajando con la traducción de datos por medio de un diseño alternativo, desvela este estado de la cultura digital actual, traduciendo y explicitando las funciones ocultas de algunos objetos digitales de uso cotidiano –como el teléfono móvil– en una instalación con objetos tecnológicos y mapas de datos. Based on the Bruno Latour’s concept of translation and community of humans and non - humans, and retaking some central aesthetic concepts in the OOO (Object Oriented Ontology), this article exposes a type of post-human translation closely related to the global situation of computational capitalism. In this extreme order of global capitalism, which is governed by algorithms and conditioned by techno - policies, the transnational diffusion of digital technologies establishes a unique sensory language that translates, unifying them, different cultures and at the same time guarantees control over the present and the future through Big Data, as Armen Avanessian warns us. Its maximum agent is the design of technological objects and services. From this finding, the example of an artistic project is provided that, working with the translation of data through an alternative design, reveals this state of the current digital culture, translating and explaining the hidden functions of some digital objects for everyday use –Like the mobile phone– in an installation with technological objects and data maps.

scholarly journals Growing in the dark: algorithmic books and possibilities for the contemporary manuscript

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reg Beatty
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
Artist's Book ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology ◽  
Dark Ecology

This essay documents a generative bookwork of mine called Growing in the Dark. It responds to the challenges of current thought including object-oriented ontology (Levi Bryant and Ian Bogost), the dark ecology of Timothy Morton, and the vibrant materialism of Jane Bennett. It also asks how the contemporary artist's book might be studied as a set of procedures, and then "grown" from that code.

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