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    A presentation accompanying my short talk “The Age of Asymmetry” at Philosophy and Waste, SIU, November 4, 2011.

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    The Age of Asymmetry

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    Timothy Morton
    A presentation accompanying my short talk “The Age of Asymmetry” at Philosophy and Waste, SIU, November 4, 2011.

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    The Age of Asymmetry

    Tim Morton

    The essence is elsewhere There is no essence

    There is an essence right here, yet withdrawn

    Caspar David Friedrich, The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

    Hegels Aesthetics
    Symbolic object > spirit

    Classical object = spirit Romantic object < spirit

    Age of Asymmetry (object = spirit) (object spirit)

    Romantic Phase
    chromaticism Mahler narrative equal temperament Anthropocene piano

    Into Asymmetry
    piano John Cage La Monte Young just intonation Anthropocene

    Piano as Object

    Bridget Riley, Fall

    La Monte Young, The WellTuned Piano

    The Age of Asymmetry


    Object-Oriented Ontology Anthropocene animism irony there is no metalanguage

    The Age of Asymmetry


    They were going to make me a major for this, and I wasn't even in their Army anymore Apocalypse Now

    The vicissitudes of this life are like drowning in a glass pond Chgyam Trungpa

    The Age of Asymmetry


    MAD rhapsode Demon weakness the capacity to tune Ion

    Weakness
    Well, what's your name? you ask him. Odradek, he says. And where do you live? No fixed abode, he says and laughs; but it is only the kind of laughter that has no lungs behind it. It sounds rather like the rustling of fallen leaves. Kafka

    Weakness
    Some say the word Odradek is of Slavonic origin, and try to account for it on that basis. Others again believe it to be of German origin, only influenced by Slavonic. The uncertainty of both interpretations allows one to assume with justice that neither is accurate, especially as neither of them provides an intelligent meaning of the word. Kafka

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