Hyperobjects 4.

0:
Emergency Human-Scale Study Guide
Timothy Morton
The vicissitudes of this life are like drowning in a glass
pond
Chögyam Trungpa

The awful shadow of some unseen Power

Floats through unseen among us

Percy Shelley
http://chartsgraphs.wordpress.com/tag/climate-trends/

Goddard Institute for Space Studies

The First Axiom of
Hyperobjects: Gaussian
Temporality
 Giorgio De Chirico,
Mystery and Melancholy
of a Street (1914)
“In his house in R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming”
The Second Axiom of
Hyperobjects: Viscosity
The Third Axiom of
Hyperobjects: Nonlocality
 Quantum Coherence

“Qubit excited-state probability, Pe, as a function of interaction time, τ, and detuning, Δ,

showing state transfer between the qubit and the resonator, in which a qubit excitation is
exchanged with a phonon in the mechanical resonator (left, simulations; right,
experiment). The red dash–dot line is at the resonator frequency, fr.” (701)

Aaron D. O’Connell et al., “Quantum Ground State and Single Phonon Control
of a Mechanical Ground Resonator,”
Nature 464 (March 17, 2010), 697–703
 Quantum Coherence

“The cross-peaks, indicated by dashed horizontal lines in Fig. 3b (red is

the cross-peak above the diagonal, the black line is that below), are more
clearly seen in Fig. 3c, in which the beats are well resolved and markedly
anti-correlated—a signature of quantum coherence.” (646)

Elisabetta Collini et al., “Coherently Wired Light-Harvesting in Photosynthetic

Marine Algae at Ambient Temperature,”
Nature 463 (4 February 2010), 644–647
Humiliations of the Human

Evolution

Capital

The unconscious

Spacetime

Ecological interconnection

Nonlocality
The Fourth Axiom of
Hyperobjects:
Transdimensionality
Tesseract Grande Arche de la Défense

Lorenz Attractor
Jennifer Baichwal, Manufactured Landscapes
Francisco Lopez, La Selva

Robert Ashley, She Was a Visitor

John F. Simon, Every Icon

Jarrod Fowler, Percussion Ensemble

Francisco Lopez, La Selva

Robert Ashley, She Was a Visitor

John F. Simon, Every Icon

Jarrod Fowler, Percussion Ensemble

Francisco Lopez, La Selva

Robert Ashley, She Was a Visitor

John F. Simon, Every Icon

Jarrod Fowler, Percussion Ensemble

Francisco Lopez, La Selva

Robert Ashley, She Was a Visitor

John F. Simon, Every Icon

Jarrod Fowler, Percussion Ensemble

The End of the World
there is no such thing as a “horizon”
Graham Harman, Tool-Being
(Open Court, 2002), 155
 The Three Timescales

1) Frightening timescale
Several hundred years

2) Horrifying timescale
Thirty thousand years

3) Petrifying timescale
One hundred thousand years
Revolution Conservative ideology
Speculative Realism Deconstruction
Global Warming Interconnectedness

Flat Ontology vs