Timothy Morton on the hyper-object and thinking ecologically

The fact of the matter is we live in co-existence with our environment: our cities, our neighbourhood, animals, trees and plants… as well as our ex-lovers, however many billion corpses and the world's garbage and excrement. In the age of the Anthropocene, ecological collapse, and a pandemic what does it mean to be 'all in this together', especially when there's no getting out of it?

Timothy Morton, a Texan-based philosopher and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, joins Blueprint For Living to help us with these questions and introduce us to the idea of the 'hyper-object'.

This was first broadcast on July 17, 2021.