[source of this tweet]I got Unitarian, followed by Reform Judaism, followed by Paganism, followed by liberal Christianity, which are all groups I've either joined or briefly pursued joining. So, highly reliable quiz I guess https://t.co/rB6pUDui6i via @po_st
— Eleanor Amaranth Lockhart (@BootlegGirl) May 31, 2019
Every year or so around my birthday I like to pause and write an essay outlining where I stand and what I’m doing here as clearly as possible. I do this partly because I think it’s important for crowd-funded media to be fully transparent about where they’re coming from so that people can decide if it’s something they want to support, and partly because the sheer volume of material I publish makes it possible for people to spin false narratives about my worldview in a way that’s difficult for others to fact-check without combing through hundreds of essays.
So here are 11 things my readers might want to know about me, with hyperlinks to my relevant writings on the subject.
You can follow the link below to see the answer.
Meanwhile you can if you like take a look at this PDF document on “What we wish people knew …”
And now for that link mentioned in the first sentence of this post:
!? Timothy Morton:“flushable”: just because you can doesn’t mean you should
— George Atherton (@notrehta) October 7, 2019
the NYT ran this: https://t.co/Icye7xdHe4https://t.co/jvtqJH7yol
When we flush the toilet, we imagine that the U-bend takes the waste away into some ontologically alien realm. Ecology is now beginning to tell us of something very different: a flattened world without ontological U-bends. A world in which there is no “away.” Marx was partly wrong, then, when in The Communist Manifesto he claimed that in capitalism all that is solid melts into air. He didn’t see how a kind of hypersolidity oozes back into the emptied out space of capitalism, a hypersolidity I call here hyperobjects. This oozing real comes back and can no longer be ignored, so that even when the spill is supposedly “gone and forgotten,” there, look! There it is, mile upon mile of strands of oil just below the surface, square mile upon square mile of ooze floating at the bottom of the ocean. The cosmic U-bend is no more. It can’t be gone and forgotten – even ABC News knows that now.
When I hear the word “sustainability” I reach for my sunscreen.
source: Adbusters article (Jan/Feb 2012) – saved on archive.org
Tim Morton: Peak Nature | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters - An amazing essay by Tim Morton - I... http://t.co/M3smY57z
— Joe Flintham (@joeflintham) January 21, 2012
“An amazing essay by Tim Morton – I recommend listening to George Atherton’s reading for the full weight of oozing of spilt oil and worlds that don’t exist.” —Joe Flintham
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