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    The document discusses the concept of the Anthropocene and how it has ushered in an "Age of Asymmetry" where objects can no longer be clearly defined as either subject or object. Various works of art, music, and films are referenced that explore themes relating to the entanglement of humans and nonhumans. The document also examines philosophical ideas from object-oriented ontology and how they relate to aesthetic concepts of symmetry, asymmetry, and the failure of objects to coincide with their outward appearance.

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    The document discusses the concept of the Anthropocene and how it has ushered in an "Age of Asymmetry" where objects can no longer be clearly defined as either subject or object. Various works of art, music, and films are referenced that explore themes relating to the entanglement of humans and nonhumans. The document also examines philosophical ideas from object-oriented ontology and how they relate to aesthetic concepts of symmetry, asymmetry, and the failure of objects to coincide with their outward appearance.

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    A presentation accompanying a talk by Tim Morton given at CCA San Francisco, November 15, 2011.

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    The document discusses the concept of the Anthropocene and how it has ushered in an "Age of Asymmetry" where objects can no longer be clearly defined as either subject or object. Various works of art, music, and films are referenced that explore themes relating to the entanglement of humans and nonhumans. The document also examines philosophical ideas from object-oriented ontology and how they relate to aesthetic concepts of symmetry, asymmetry, and the failure of objects to coincide with their outward appearance.

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    Enter The Nonhuman: A New Phase in Aesthetics

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    Enter the Nonhuman

    A New Phase in Aesthetics


    Tim Morton

    The Time of Hyperobjects


    Biosphere

    Climate
    Evolution
    What does it mean to be an entity?

    Global warming
    Nuclear materials

    Population
    Pollution

    Anthropocene
    1790 1945 Carbon Deposits Great Acceleration Plutonium

    Anthropocene

    Trinity Test at 0.016 Seconds

    Anthropocene

    Lars von Trier, Melancholia

    Pull Focus (dolly zoom)

    The End of Away

    Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho

    The Age of Asymmetry

    We are all hypocrites


    Caspar David Friedrich, The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

    Wolves in the Throne Room

    Revenge of the Nonhumans


    Hegels Aesthetics
    Symbolic object > spirit

    Classical
    Romantic

    object = spirit
    object < spirit

    Age of Asymmetry (object = spirit) (object spirit)

    Romantic Phase
    chromaticism Mahler narrative equal temperament Anthropocene piano

    Into Asymmetry
    piano John Cage La Monte Young just intonation

    Anthropocene

    Piano as Nonhuman

    Bridget Riley, Fall Beethoven, Piano Sonata 8

    La Monte Young, The WellTuned Piano

    The Age of Asymmetry


    Object-Oriented Ontology Anthropocene irony there is no metalanguage

    The Age of Asymmetry


    They were going to make me a major for this, and I wasn't even in their Army anymore Apocalypse Now

    The vicissitudes of this life are like drowning in a glass pond Chgyam Trungpa

    Tuning
    MAD rhapsode Demon weakness Ion the capacity to tune

    Constructivism vs. Object Orientation


    a thing that looks to you like a jellyfish, so you dive into it and try to eat it but it covers your fins so they cant move as before and there is a heaviness on your carapace and head that wasnt there before, and you are blind in the waters of your birth Sheryl St. Germain Butoh Wordsworth Banksy Sartre

    the sticky death of the in-itself

    Butoh

    Sankai Juku

    Ami Yoshida

    Banksy, Pier Pressure

    Viscosity

    Zone Imperative Alphonso Lingis

    Francisco Lopez, La Selva Robert Ashley, She Was a Visitor John F. Simon, Every Icon
    Given: An icon described by a 32 X 32 grid. Allowed: Any element of the grid to be colored black or white. Shown: Every icon.

    Jarrod Fowler, Percussion Ensemble

    Marije de Haas, Wellness Over Time

    Chris Wainwright

    Comora Tolliver, Pod

    Lameness
    Object fails to coincide with its appearance-for another object (including itself) Inconsistency Fragility The Rift

    Whales within Whales

    Twinkle, twinkle little star

    David Cronenberg, Videodrome

    Charnel Ground, Mount Kailash (Tibet)

    Charnel Ground, Mount Kailash (Tibet)

    Charnel Ground

    Edward Burtynsky

    Charnel Ground

    Charnel Ground

    Earthrise

    Pale Blue Dot

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