This week, Jennifer Walshe talks to to the philosopher Timothy Morton about their thoughts on the pandemic, and how it intersects with a wide range of topics including climate change, “care wear” and John Lennon’s “Imagine.”

Tim is the Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, in Houston, Texas, and the author of many books including Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World; Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality and most recently Being Ecological. Tim has collaborated with many artists and musicians including Olafur Eliasson, Laurie Anderson and Björk. Full disclosure: Tim and Jen collaborated on an opera called TIME TIME TIME last year.

Follow Tim here https://twitter.com/the_eco_thought or read more of his work on his blog here http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/