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  1. The ecological thought, part second

    At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the fog it came; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1.63–66) ...

    TimothyMorton - 01/10/2014 - 13:40 - 1 comment

  2. The ecological thought—introductory

    Hi everyone— Tim Morton here. I was asked to start blogging here on ecological issues, and I'm delighted to accept the invitation. I'm actually working on a book right now called The Ecological Thought. It's kind of the prequel to Ecology w ...

    TimothyMorton - 01/10/2014 - 13:44 - 1 comment

  3. The ecological thought, part first

    Hi again—back from my Q&A at the ASLE conference in Edinburgh. That was quick wasn't it?! Thanks to videoconferencing I didn't have to move an inch. I made a dvd of my keynote (in front of a “live audience” as they say in sitcoms), then did ...

    TimothyMorton - 01/10/2014 - 13:42

  4. The ecological thought, part second

    At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the fog it came; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1.63–66) Hi again. So here we have the fateful bird, emerging from ...

    TimothyMorton - 01/10/2014 - 13:42 - 1 comment

  5. The ecological thought, part third

    At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the fog it came; As if it had ben a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1.63–66) Greetings all. Thanks so much to Ash Nichols for his commen ...

    TimothyMorton - 01/10/2014 - 13:42

  6. The ecological thought—an infinite interlude

    I've been writing a bit about infinity, so I thought it might be good to take a step aside and look at this some more. Imagine a line. Now remove the middle third. You have two shorter lines with an equal-sized space between them. Now remove the midd ...

    TimothyMorton - 01/10/2014 - 13:44 - 2 comments

  7. The ecological thought, part fourth

    We hailed it in God's name. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1.66) We made it! And, as you probably guessed, we're going to look at the various significances of “hailing,” not to mention “in God's name.” This means ...

    TimothyMorton - 01/10/2014 - 13:44

  8. The ecological thought—a ghastly fugue

    Hi, hey, hulloo, hello, and hail... ...

    TimothyMorton - 01/10/2014 - 13:44

  9. The ecological thought, part fifth

    Synethiaphobia: that's my Greek invention for “phobia of intimacy,” the basic feeling of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. “I fear thee ancient Mariner! / I fear thy skinny hand! (4.224–225). Nothing excites synethiaphobia more than the horrifying vul ...

    TimothyMorton - 01/10/2014 - 13:44

  10. The ecological thought—mission statement

    Hi Everyone. Very kindly, Ron asked me to post a synopsis of my doings here. Writing it was very helpful. I'm quite jazzed from having just come out of a theory class where I was teaching Althusser, so you may recognize some things Lacanian in here. ...

    TimothyMorton - 01/10/2014 - 13:44

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