A review by mattbgold
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World by Timothy Morton

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Hyperobjects are a useful concept. Perhaps the rise of hyperobjects actually does mark a transition into a new historical era (I doubt it). But the consequences of hyperobjects? In my opinion the reality is not nearly as dramatic as this book makes it out to be. Just because we exist within a complex and more fundamental mesh of "hyperobjects" does not render our existing concepts such as "world", "nature", or "consciousness" either meaningless, unreal, or absurd. I also think this book fails to account for the fact that science is not married to a "greedy" reductionist ontology, and seems to suggest more than once that a reductionist worldview is an unavoidable consequence of the acknowledgement of hyperobjects such as "quantum mechanics".