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Hyperobjects 4.0:

Emergency Human-Scale Study

Guide

Timothy Morton

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The vicissitudes of this life are like drowning in a glass

pond

The awful shadow of some unseen Power

Floats through unseen among us

Percy Shelley

Chgyam Trungpa

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

Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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The First Axiom ofHyperobjects: Gaussian

Temporality

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Giorgio De Chirico,Mystery and Melancholy

of a Street(1914)

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In his house in Rlyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming

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The Second Axiom ofHyperobjects: Viscosity

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The Third Axiom ofHyperobjects: Nonlocality

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Quantum Coherence

Aaron D. OConnell et al., Quantum Ground State and Single Phonon Control

of a Mechanical Ground Resonator,

Nature 464 (March 17, 2010), 697703

Qubit excited-state probability, Pe, as a function of interaction time, , and

detuning, , showing state transfer between the qubit and the resonator, in whicha qubit excitation is exchanged with a phonon in the mechanical resonator (left,

simulations; right, experiment). The red dashdot line is at the resonator

frequency, fr. (701)

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Quantum Coherence

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

Marine Algae at Ambient Temperature,

Nature 463 (4 February 2010), 644647

The cross-peaks, indicated by dashed horizontal lines in Fig. 3b

(red is the cross-peak above the diagonal, the black line is thatbelow), are more clearly seen in Fig. 3c, in which the beats are well

resolved and markedly anti-correlateda signature of quantum

coherence. (646)

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Evolution

Capital

The unconscious

Spacetime

Ecological interconnection

Nonlocality

Humiliations of the Human

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The Fourth Axiom ofHyperobjects:

Transdimensionality

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Tesseract Grande Arche de la Dfense

Lorenz Attractor

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Jennifer Baichwal, Manufactured Landscapes

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Jarrod Fowler, Percussion Ensemble

John F. Simon, Every Icon

Robert Ashley, She Was a Visitor

Francisco Lopez, La Selva

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Jarrod Fowler, Percussion Ensemble

John F. Simon, Every Icon

Robert Ashley, She Was a Visitor

Francisco Lopez, La Selva

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Jarrod Fowler, Percussion Ensemble

John F. Simon, Every Icon

Robert Ashley, She Was a Visitor

Francisco Lopez, La Selva

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Jarrod Fowler, Percussion Ensemble

John F. Simon, Every Icon

Robert Ashley, She Was a Visitor

Francisco Lopez, La Selva

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The End of the World

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there is no such thing as ahorizon

Graham Harman, Tool-Being

(Open Court, 2002), 155

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The Three Timescales

1) Frightening timescale

2) Horrifying timescale

3) Petrifying timescale

Several hundred years

Thirty thousand years

One hundred thousand years

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Revolution

Speculative Realism

Global Warming

Conservative ideology

Deconstruction

Interconnectedness

Flat Ontology vs

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