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iEAR Salon Presents Timothy Morton

iEAR Salon presents a talk by eco-philosopher and writer Timothy Morton. Morton is a prolific philosopher and writer who speaks to the ways in which art is, inherently, ecological, and how we can reconcile our experience of the environment at scales of the climate crisis. They are the Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University and Director of the Cool America Foundation. They have collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Olafur Eliasson, Pharrell Williams and Justin Guariglia, and they co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future’s Past, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. They are the author of the libretto for the opera Time Time Time by Jennifer Walshe. Morton has written All Art Is Ecological (Penguin, 2021), Spacecraft (Bloomsbury, 2021), Hyposubjects: On Becoming Human (Open Humanities, 2021), Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), 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), 8 other books and 270 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. Morton’s work has been translated into 15 languages. In 2014 they gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory. http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/
Timothy Morton
Wednesday, Oct 19, 1-2 PM EST

Registration: https://iearsalon.eventbrite.com/

The Arts Department at RPI is presenting the 2022 “iEAR Salon” virtual series exploring sense-abilities and environmental bodies, curated by the Arts Graduate Colloquium of Rensselaer. We host mutli-disciplinary artists and thinkers Ursula Biemann, Timothy Morton, Jenn E Norton, Jaguar Mary X, and Špela Petrič to address topics of deep ecology, alternative ways of knowing and new figurations of being-in-place.

Join us for this upcoming series of virtual presentations, screenings and discussions Wednesdays, Oct. 12th – Nov. 9th from 1:00-2:00 PM EST. Each session entails a 45-minute presentation or screening to a virtual audience with a brief question and answer session. This series is sponsored by iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature.











When: Wed., Oct. 19, 2022 at 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
iEAR Salon presents a talk by eco-philosopher and writer Timothy Morton. Morton is a prolific philosopher and writer who speaks to the ways in which art is, inherently, ecological, and how we can reconcile our experience of the environment at scales of the climate crisis. They are the Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University and Director of the Cool America Foundation. They have collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Olafur Eliasson, Pharrell Williams and Justin Guariglia, and they co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future’s Past, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. They are the author of the libretto for the opera Time Time Time by Jennifer Walshe. Morton has written All Art Is Ecological (Penguin, 2021), Spacecraft (Bloomsbury, 2021), Hyposubjects: On Becoming Human (Open Humanities, 2021), Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), 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), 8 other books and 270 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. Morton’s work has been translated into 15 languages. In 2014 they gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory. http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/
Timothy Morton
Wednesday, Oct 19, 1-2 PM EST

Registration: https://iearsalon.eventbrite.com/

The Arts Department at RPI is presenting the 2022 “iEAR Salon” virtual series exploring sense-abilities and environmental bodies, curated by the Arts Graduate Colloquium of Rensselaer. We host mutli-disciplinary artists and thinkers Ursula Biemann, Timothy Morton, Jenn E Norton, Jaguar Mary X, and Špela Petrič to address topics of deep ecology, alternative ways of knowing and new figurations of being-in-place.

Join us for this upcoming series of virtual presentations, screenings and discussions Wednesdays, Oct. 12th – Nov. 9th from 1:00-2:00 PM EST. Each session entails a 45-minute presentation or screening to a virtual audience with a brief question and answer session. This series is sponsored by iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature.

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