Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (The Wellek Library Lectures)

Book arrived in perfect condition. Thank you.

The book is a tour de force plea/demand for a whole new way of thinking that will let us wake up to the planetary crisis that we are causing (or, more succinctly, that we ARE.) Unfortunately, though, the author seems unable to decide if he is writing, urgently and cogently, for a wide audience, or if he's indulging in a kind of hyper-academic showing-off that makes him construct dense forests of obscure references that will be penetrable only by the most isolated specialists. The book is replete with both kinds of writing.

The most darkly gleaming elucidation of our current predicament. Thought-provocing and elegant. A wonderful augmentation of the usually bleak atmospere that surrounds ecological consciousness.

I was excited for the potential of this book, but I should have read the reviews more carefully. Morton had no target audience in mind when he wrote this book: there's a lot of philosophy jargon that goes unexplained, while other philosophical ideologies are explained clearly, but are irrelevant to his thesis. Furthermore, the lack of structure gives his arguments a very stop-and-start feel. Add some frivolous and flamboyant word choice in there and a book that on its surface is meant to make a globally important argument is clouded by pretentious B.S.. Nothing makes me roll my eyes more than philosophers who tout how important their ideas are, sell their ideas in the form of books and media, only to make them inaccessible to the masses. I felt cheated by buying this book.

Amazing in every way

One of the biggest ecological problems we face, as I have discovered through the philosophy known as Object-Oriented Ontology, is anti-intellectualism. Those who think that global warming is a purely physical problem, with scientists and others with a "just do it" attitude offering the only possible ways of thinking about it, will hate this book; such prejudices are the wellspring of ecological problems in the first place, which is why scientists and engineers can't solve the problem without help. For those who understand that thoughts lead to actions which give rise to things (which is actually true), the effect will be more mixed. To one schooled in anthropology, the thought that agriculture is a kind of ecological "original sin" is hardly a startling revelation; what is interesting is that Tim convincingly discusses how and why this is the case, and this is the help science (and policy, no less importantly) doesn't realize it's looking for. My only criticism is that, while many of our fellow human beings commit the sin of excluding such ideas (because they're too "wordy", "long", "scholastic", "esoteric" and other Lovecraftian adjectives people use when they're pretending not to be interested in things they're actually just afraid they won't be able to comprehend), Tim can fairly be said to be guilty of the same sin in reverse: as a writer myself, I see little effort on his part to make his message accessible to those whom it would most benefit: ordinary people who read books and care about our future. It is certainly depressing that people pathologize intellect and so neglect good ideas; it is even more gut-wrenchingly depressing that Tim responds with his own more obscurantist brand of exclusionism. "You exclude me? Fine, I exclude you too, because I can." My point is that no one benefits from this except the petulant egos of the participants in this contest, and we have been treated to yet more evidence that there is no hope of a constructive human response to ecological problems. This personal attitude on his part is no blemish on the writing itself, as careful deep reading is what this book is for. Used in that way, the book is beautiful; be prepared to find joy in darkness, and the book will take you places you've never been.

Completely dreadful. I barely even read through the first 50 pages and gave it up. I got this book thinking it was going to talk about dark ecology. Dark ecology in a way that I a way most people think of the term; that nature has a spirituality and man should have reverence for it. That is not what this author is talking about at all. To be honest I am not sure what this author's point is. The author drones on in this erudite fashion more in an attemp to impress than to inform. I tried to skim ahead to other chapters and it is more of the same.

They were very happy to get this.

I love the book, but I do recommend reading it if you are prepared to think differently about many things.While I love the roller-coaster ride it gives the reader, it would be more helpfull, to provide more visualisations as to the explanations of some of the claims. While I agree fully that Agrilogistics have been the root cause for most of our issues concerning the ecological crisis, I would like to see more factual evidence (imagery & statistics) tobase this claim. It seems to me that Mr. Morton could expand on his rethinking of our ecological crisis, so that readers with less deep rooted theoretical understanding, could understand it better.The format is great, as it is doesn't have too many pages, but could be supplemented with more visuals/images to make it a more lively read. The reading itself is quite dark, but at the end we should all feel a bit more lively about ourselves on planet earth.I could recommend readers to obtain a copy of Sonic Acts's Living Earth, in order to have a deeper and more visual understanding of the theory at hand. It would explain a lot more of the theory and nature of the book itself.All in all an excellent read with space for further development.

A great exploration into environmental anxiety

It is now incontrovertible that there are more non-human cells in an individual human than there are human cells. The most powerful movement emerging around our human identity is the displacement of the atomistic, isolated, selfish individual with a new 'social self'. Morton provides a wonderful account of the process and consequences for our sense of self as we become a new form of collective intelligence and ecological self. Worth the read.

This book builds upon Morton's previous works, laying out a means of moving forward in the face of overwhelming environmental crisis. Dark Ecology posits a way of thinking about the things too big to conceptualise all at once (as in Hyperobejects), collapses the idea of "nature" as "outside" of that which is human, and willfully dives into the muck of what to do about it. I loved reading this book, and I found it moving.

Timothy Morton é um dos mais instigantes pensadores modernos e Dark Ecology é um relato aprofundado de nossa relação com o mundo que nos cerca. Acredito que o livro é um mergulho profundo, algum conhecimento leve de OOO ou de filosofia é desejado