Morton, Timothy (2013): Hyperobjects. Philosophy and ecology after the end of the World
Morton, Timothy (2013): Hyperobjects. Philosophy and ecology after the end of the World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1 A quake in being. An introduction to Hyperobjects In The Ecological Thought I coined the term hyperobjects to refer to things that are massively distributed in time and space relativo to humans (…) Hyperobjects then, are “hyper” in relation to some other entity, whether they are directly manufactured by humans or not. Hyperobjects have numerous properties i common. They are viscous , which means that they “stick” to being that are involved with them. They are nonlocal ; in other words, any “local manifestation” of a hyperobject is not directly the hyperobject. They involve profoundly different temporalities that the human-scale ones we are used to (…) Hyperobjects occupy a high-dimensional phase space that resuls in their being invisible to humans for stretches of time. And they exhibit their effects interobjectively ; that is, they can be det