{"65442":{"#nid":"65442","#data":{"type":"event","title":"LCC\u0027s Distinguished Speaker Series: Tim Morton","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELCC\u0027s Distinguished Speaker Series: Tim Morton, University of California-Davis\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETitle of Talk:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022Dawn of the Hyperobjects\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003Cem\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn this talk, Professor Morton explores hyperobjects: entities such as radioactive materials and global warming. Hyperobjects are massively distributed in time and space, subject to temporal distortion, nonlocal, phased and \u201cinterobjective.\u201d Hyperobjects appear in the human world as a product of our thinking through the ecological crisis we have entered. The ecological crisis is best thought as the time of hyperobjects. Why? Because this is the moment at which massive nonhuman, nonsentient entities make decisive contact with humans, ending various human concepts such as \u201cworld,\u201d \u201chorizon,\u201d Nature and even \u201cenvironment.\u201d\n\nThe existence of hyperobjects poses a number of problems for ecology and philosophy, from theories of self-interest to deep ontological questions. Hyperobjects also challenge artists and other kinds of creators to find ways of meeting them and working with them in their practice.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBio:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETimothy Morton is Professor of English (Literature and the Environment) at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of \u003Cem\u003EThe Ecological Thought \u003C\/em\u003E(Harvard UP, 2010), \u003Cem\u003EEcology without Nature\u003C\/em\u003E (Harvard UP, 2007), seven other books and over seventy essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, food and music. He blogs regularly at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELCC\u0027s Distinguished Speaker Series will host Tim Morton of University of California-Davis, who will present \u0022Dawn of the Hyperobjects\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2011-04-07 12:38:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:54:42","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-04-19T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2011-04-19T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-04-19T12:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-04-19 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-04-19 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-04-19 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"12695","name":"LCC Speaker Series"},{"id":"12696","name":"Tim Morton"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECarol Silvers\u0026nbsp; 404-894-9539\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}