Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World (Posthumanities)

There's plenty of positive reviews so I'll just mention a big takeaway for me.Hyperobjects are both real and constitutive of our sense of self. For example, oil is a hyperobject with its own directionality or purpose - it "wants" to move from a highly ordered state to a disordered state (i.e. burn). Oil touches us directly and our sense of self is partially constituted by oil.The thought, "I should fly to Fiji for the weekend" is, in a sense, an oil thought. Peak oil is peak ego. Because peak oil is an ego limit, humans are likely not going to act on the climate science -- that would require a letting go of this current sense of self which is, again, partly (largely?) constituted by oil.

You can read it several times and still grasping something new, like swimming in a ball pool. Hard to read, wonderful to read. For those who wanna undestand what does it means to be "ecological" and inside a biosphere.

You're in a hyperobject & you never knew it till now.Tim Morton is quite simply brilliant.

This books says great things and unifies many fields of knowledge, particular quantum physics. Much was not comprehensible to me on the first read, but that which I did understand was fascinating. Recommended to get your brain going (again).

The "OOO" (Object Oriented Ontology) organizes some old and new perspectives in a very unique system of philosohy and social science. Lots of 'quantum physics' too. The bottom line message would be a 'spoiler' and if you read and think, I mean actually think, you will be satisifed that you did. Not happy, cause it is not a 'happy' message. Disclaimer: School teachers should stay away. You only screw this deep a matter up.