PhD student writing on Thomas Pynchon and the Posthuman Gothic. Literary & critical theory, aesthetics, ecology. All views are my own, etc. 
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Any goodwill I had left after reading Hyperobjects has evaporated in reading Dark Ecology. After pages of theoretical backflips, the author comes to the topics of politics and ethics. Here he proposes his grand solution to ecological crisis: repetitious public art projects.pic.twitter.com/TJUSs62TJb
Frankly, it brings to mind Walter Benjamin’s admonition of the futurists: this “Dark Ecology” also proclaims “If the world should perish, let art be born.” Rising seas, deserts, and disasters are stripped of any immediacy: they are treated only as objects of aesthetic pleasure.
A point that perplexes me: What is it with the OOO/SR/ANT crowds that drives them to ecology to look for a kind of secular religion? Hyperobjects and Gaia both recur as numinous figures of devotion and awe. An ecology without nature, perhaps, but not without its gods of nature.
A final point: for all the talk of the dark and weird, if you look closely there’s not much of either. The weird doesn’t get past cybernetic feedback loops, without taking seriously how this damages any claim agency or autonomy (another example of OOO failing to surpass D&G).pic.twitter.com/nbkE6VmeyD
If you’re going to coin a term like “dark ecology” you’d better be able to tell a good horror story. The aesthetician would be better suited with Mark Fisher’s weird (& eerie, 2016), and the ecologist with Claire Colebrook’s truly dark take on our dance with extinction (2014).
I have to commend you for giving it a shot. Dark Ecology maybe has a better chance if they try and become a meme on Twitter, complete with glitch art nature pics
Are Twitter brands hyperobjects? Do academic fads have their own weird agency? In this essay I will... 1/123
Follow Morton on here- dudes a basic liberal from what I can tell. No radical politics...
I could have warned you about this.
It is a necessary sacrifice made for the sake of boosting my thesis’s reference list.
I understand that. I even used Morton in a class once.
A cautionary tale, surely.
if you explicitly tell the artists how to use your work to make more art, you'll generate a many opportunities for yourself in that world
The book's been out for two years now, and I'm yet to see the Cult of Plutonium claim my city. A wasted opportunity indeed.
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