{"id":3453,"date":"2019-01-14T10:27:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T15:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2019-01-14T10:28:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T15:28:32","slug":"fruits-of-the-mornings-beachcombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3453","title":{"rendered":"fruits of the morning&#8217;s beachcombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/32852177248\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"13i1901a\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7922\/32852177248_e442d99657.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"326\" alt=\"13i1901a\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><br \/>\nStuff keeps washing up along my personal tidelines, some of it simple flotsam or jetsam, some of it elements in evolving sculpture and macram&eacute;, some of it of indeterminate utility. <b><i>It All Counts<\/i><\/b>, as my mentor Allen Smith said of the work of the Reference Librarian.<\/p>\n<p>\nTwo cases in point, the first an enduring puzzlement reeled in and partly digested a few months ago, the second a new discovery this morning, via a posting to The WELL&#8217;s State of the World (<a href=\"https:\/\/people.well.com\/conf\/inkwell.vue\/topics\/506\/State-of-the-World-2019-page08.html#post182\">Paulina Borsook<\/a>) which seems to make sense of the first:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Timothy Morton&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00FP9EI5Y\/\"><b>Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls &#8216;hyperobjects&#8217;&mdash;entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is in the first place&#8230; concepts such as world, nature, and even environment are no longer a meaningful horizon against which human events take place. Instead of inhabiting a world, we find ourselves inside a number of hyperobjects, such as climate, nuclear weapons, evolution, or relativity. Such objects put unbearable strains on our normal ways of reasoning.Insisting that we have to reinvent how we think to even begin to comprehend the world we now live in, <b>Hyperobjects<\/b> takes the first steps, outlining a genuinely postmodern ecological approach to thought and action&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforforcemajeure.org\">Force Majeure<\/a> at UC Santa Cruz<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>\n<b><br \/>\nFive Understandings<\/b><br \/>\nFirst understanding<\/p>\n<p>Nature\u2019s economic system stores the energy that it does not immediately need<br \/>\nmostly in carbon formations<\/p>\n<p>\nSecond understanding<\/p>\n<p>Nature does not charge a profit as do culture\u2019s economic systems<\/p>\n<p>\nThird understanding<\/p>\n<p>All natural systems are dissipative structures with individuals that form them living,<br \/>\nreproducing then dying with indeterminacy as a norm<\/p>\n<p>\nFourth understanding<\/p>\n<p>All natural systems have learned to nest within each other, and, within a context of<br \/>\nsymbiosis contribute to collective systems survival, sometimes with abundance<\/p>\n<p>\nFifth understanding<\/p>\n<p>Human constructed artifacts particularly legal, political, economic as well as<br \/>\nproduction and consumption systems seek constancy but are often in violation of the<br \/>\nlaws of conservation of energy pointing toward systems entropy\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Working out the implications, awaiting the next tide&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuff keeps washing up along my personal tidelines, some of it simple flotsam or jetsam, some of it elements in evolving sculpture and macram&eacute;, some of it of indeterminate utility. 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