Open AccessEcology without the Present
Author(s) -
Timothy Morton
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
oxford literary review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1757-1634
pISSN - 0305-1498
DOI - 10.3366/olr.2012.0043
Subject(s) - anthropocene , metaphysics , ecology , set (abstract data type) , epistemology , environmental ethics , philosophy , history , biology , computer science , programming language
The fact of the Anthropocene makes the metaphysics of presence radically unthinkable. At the same time, and for the same reasons, it reveals to humans a non-totalisable set of unique beings, which this essay calls objects. These objects have a past and a future, but no present.
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