"World"

 
Morton's concept of world: "world is very cheap (91) [...] World is cheap enough for everything to have it (92)"
 
95: "Consciousness, language, world. It's not that there's no such thing as these entities. It's that they are so much cheaper than we reckoned they were."
 
"Why is world cheap? Because world is inherently lacking, inherently ragged and faulty. World is perforated. There are not perfect, smoothly functioning worlds, and poor people's versions. [...] [W]orld as such is poverty. World is structurally, irreducibly perforated"
 
"World precisely is this tattered, perforated quilt that doesn't quite start and stop with a definite horizon" (93)
 
[??]
 
"World doesn't depend on consciousness. It's not about knowing that there is a world" (91)
 
and
 
"world doesn't make sense as a metaphysically present entity you can point to; it never did. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist at all. It just means that your idea of 'exist' needs an upgrade"
> from Timothy Morton's Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (2017)

> tagged with #reality, #language, #consciousness

> created February 1, 2024 at 2:33:14 PM


> part of unfinished everything


search unfinished everything


unfinished everything is an original work / ongoing project (1997-present) by jeremy p. bushnell

selection, arrangement, and original text available for creative reuse under this licensing arrangement

authors' quoted words are their own.


home |@jpb.bsky.social