DARK ECOLOGY

Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, tw isted to have only one side. Deckard travels this Oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he h as been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness has this form because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental to the structure of how things are. The logistics of agricultural society resulted in global warming and hardwired dangerous ideas about lif...[Read more]