The "infinite regress" of entities

 
Morton 105: "an entity contains a potentially infinite regress of other entities. The entity is literally out-scaled by its parts. It is bigger on the inside"
 
106: Therefore, it is "smaller on the outisde, so that, however absurd and amazing it sounds, we need to say 'the whole is always smaller than the sum of its parts.' The fact that hyperobjects subscend their parts is why you can't find them. Global warming and the biosphere are ontologically small"
 
"Hyperobjects disappear 'downwards,' not upwards, into something paradoxically more physical and thus more fragile than the beings that comprise them. This explains for instance the viscosity of hyperobjects, the fact that they stick to you phenomenologically wherever you are"

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> created March 30, 2024 at 8:33:53 PM


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