HYPEROBJECTS

Timothy Morton
1. Unsustaining
Martin Heidegger, Bestand
Martin Heidegger, Bestand
 Martin Heidegger, Bestand

Edward Burtynsky, Manufactured Landscapes

dir. Jennifer Baichwal (2006)
Pu 239
2. The End of the World
 Roman Jakobson
code

addresser message addressee

contact phatic statements

context
Godard Institute for Space Studies
 Aristotle

Suppose, for instance, that in the season of the

Cynosure [the Dog Days of summer] arctic cold
were to prevail, this we would regard as an
accident, whereas, if there were a sweltering
heatwave, we would not. And this is because
the latter, unlike the former, is always or for the
most part the case.

Metaphysics, Epsilon 2, tr. Hugh Lawson-

Tancred (Penguin, 1999), 158–9
there is no such thing as a “horizon”
Graham Harman, Tool-Being
(Open Court, 2002), p. 155
3. Hyperobjects
Is the truth [of no-self] depressing? Some may find it so. But
I find it liberating, and consoling. When I believed that my
existence was [a ‘deep further fact, distinct from physical
and psychological continuity, and a fact that must be all-or-
nothing’], I seemed imprisoned in myself. My life seemed
like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every
year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I
changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared.
I now live in the open air. There is still a difference between
my life and the lives of other people. But that difference is
less. Other people are closer. I am less concerned about
the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the lives
of others.

Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons

(Oxford, 1984), 281
http://www.rockyflatsnuclearguardianship.org/
(1) If you both betray each other you will receive
five years in jail.
(2) If one of you betrays and the other is silent,
the betrayed one will receive ten years in jail.
(3) If you both remain silent, you will each get
six months for a minor charge.

The Prisoner’s Dilemma

 The Strange Stranger

Jacques Derrida, l’arrivant

OOO, “object”

Joseph Jastrow,
Duck-rabbit illusion
4. Hyper(art)objects
Timbre
 Tuning
Stimmung
Martin Heidegger, What Is Philosophy?,
tr. and intro. Jean T. Wilde and William Kluback (Lanham, MD:
Rowan and Littlefield, 2003), 77–91.

Theatre of Eternal Music, The Tortoise, His Dreams and Journeys

La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, John Cale,
Tony Conrad, Angus MacLise
 Tuning
Stimmung
Martin Heidegger, What Is Philosophy?,
tr. and intro. Jean T. Wilde and William Kluback (Lanham, MD:
Rowan and Littlefield, 2003), 77–91.

La Monte Young, 31 VII 69