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bennynickels's review against another edition
4.0
I wonder how Odysseus felt, strapped to the mast as he heard the Sirens.
this is about him listening to my bloody valentine
roxxyxxyxxy's review against another edition
4.0
full of ideas that made me feel like a lunatic (non-derogatory). “lifeforms themselves are poems about nonlife”….
uderecife's review against another edition
3.0
It’s the end of the world and we’re already experiencing it. However, since the end of the world is an object that far transcends our ability to grasp it, it is a hyperobject.
Every object is a hyperobject in a sense. And since hyperobjects are so difficult to make sense, this book try, in a hyperobjective way, to hyperobjectify our understanding of hyperobjects, making it a bit hard to grasp its message. However, that is not the author’s fault. This is the nature of hyperobjects and reading this book, with all its faults, still makes you aware of these hyperdimensions where we inhabit and rarely give a thought about it.
This is not an easy book; but it is not an easy subject. Notwithstanding that, the author does a great job in giving you a sense of what he’s aiming at.
Would I recommend this book? Yes, if you’re interested in philosophy; moreso if you want to learn about a cutting edge approach to ontology. If you’re not into this, don’t waste your time. The message is: we are already there, but it is too big and too complex for us to understand its workings and implications.
willworm's review against another edition
Sometimes beautiful, always impenetrable, ultimately probably not relevant to the thesis
adamz24's review against another edition
3.0
Don't know why he associates himself with the OOO guys. His project seems vastly different from those of dickheads like Ian "Tiny Ontology" Bogost and Levi "Onticology" Bryant. Then, in this general area, you have people like Jane Bennett, who actually have reasonable ethical minds but have fallen way too far down the rabbit hole to recover. Still, maybe he needs OOO for some of this stuff to work. The truth is I don't know enough about quantum physics to figure out just how much of this is total bullshit. But I also think that, even when taken with a giant heaping plate of salt, Morton's project is at least interesting. More important, he comes up with really useful and illuminating concepts and ideas. At times, reading this felt a bit like reading Zizek, whose "philosophy" seems to me really suspect, but whose writings nevertheless often demonstrate great insight.
The shit Morton says about Twin Peaks, for instance, provides a useful, surprisingly clear framework for discussing the uncanny nature and affective power of Evil in the Oeuvre of David Lynch.
The shit Morton says about Twin Peaks, for instance, provides a useful, surprisingly clear framework for discussing the uncanny nature and affective power of Evil in the Oeuvre of David Lynch.
zofoklecja's review against another edition
Dnf at 51%
I tried to move past it, but in the end Morton's "personal style" was just too rambling and chaotic
I tried to move past it, but in the end Morton's "personal style" was just too rambling and chaotic
winter_ma's review against another edition
3.0
Made a 300+ word book out of what would have been a very suitable essay discussing Hyperobjects in specific relation to Ecological damage in relation to perspectives. Concept was very spraling, though can honestly say enjoyed the perspective it provided
onceuponatime's review
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
This book expressed some ideas that helped me properly frame my thoughts about nature and our relation to it. This is a philosophy science book, but one that has a lot of metaphors, comparisons, and a very specific personal style.
The style is quite repetitive at places, with maybe a bit too many metaphors and could definitely be more concise, but everything is explained quite well, I'd say.
Some ideas I jotted down as I went along and would like to remember:
Global warming is like a big thing going through a sieve - natural phenomena we can experience. So hyperobjects are hard to point to bc of the way they manifest - with gaps and in different expressions.
Time and space not as limitless containers but things defined by objects themselves.
Interobjectvity a new thought because previous thinking was entirely bases on human-world relations. Things (especially hyperobjects) aren't sized per human size, and there is no background/foreground in reality.
There is no doom we are heading towards as it is not one event, it is now.
The style is quite repetitive at places, with maybe a bit too many metaphors and could definitely be more concise, but everything is explained quite well, I'd say.
Some ideas I jotted down as I went along and would like to remember:
Global warming is like a big thing going through a sieve - natural phenomena we can experience. So hyperobjects are hard to point to bc of the way they manifest - with gaps and in different expressions.
Time and space not as limitless containers but things defined by objects themselves.
Interobjectvity a new thought because previous thinking was entirely bases on human-world relations. Things (especially hyperobjects) aren't sized per human size, and there is no background/foreground in reality.
There is no doom we are heading towards as it is not one event, it is now.
katiepolich's review against another edition
4.0
Repetitive but wholly enjoyable. Some quotes I love:
“I think that this music could liquefy my internal organs, make my ears bleed (this has actually occurred), send me into seizures. Perhaps it could kill me. To be killed by intensed beauty, what a Keatsian way to die.”
“Am I a nihilistic postmodernist or a New Ager in academic drag?”
“'Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.' The mirror itself has become part of my flesh. Or rather, I have become part of the mirror’s flesh, reflecting hyperobjects everywhere."
“In trying to cancel itself out, the replicator becomes beautifully defended against its environment. Our existence is due to more than a little bit of death, the headlong rush toward equilibrium.”
“I think that this music could liquefy my internal organs, make my ears bleed (this has actually occurred), send me into seizures. Perhaps it could kill me. To be killed by intensed beauty, what a Keatsian way to die.”
“Am I a nihilistic postmodernist or a New Ager in academic drag?”
“'Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.' The mirror itself has become part of my flesh. Or rather, I have become part of the mirror’s flesh, reflecting hyperobjects everywhere."
“In trying to cancel itself out, the replicator becomes beautifully defended against its environment. Our existence is due to more than a little bit of death, the headlong rush toward equilibrium.”