HYPEROBJECTS

Morton employed the term hyperobjects to describe objects that are so massively distributed in time and space as to transcend spatio temporal specificity, such as global warming, styrofoam, and radioactive plutonium. Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental eme rgency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our contr ol but also our understanding. Global warming is perhaps ...[Read more]