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Everything We Need: Scarcity, Scale, Hyperobjects
Author(s) -
Morton Timothy
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1433
Subject(s) - scarcity , scale (ratio) , ecology , environmental ethics , sociology , economics , philosophy , geography , biology , cartography , microeconomics
Scarcity as a concept places an emphasis on limits and the restrictions that there might be on the supply of resources, energy and materials. Timothy Morton, who is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and has written extensively on philosophy and ecology, among other subjects, questions philosophically this emphasis on limits and the contemporary tendency to need to quantify everything around us. He urges us to ‘look beyond those artificial boundaries’ and ‘find abundance’.