Notes from Timothy Morton's Humankind (2017)
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1. Morton's "symbiotic real"/"implosive whole"
2. Morton's "symbiosis"
3. Language in the symbiotic real
4. Morton on solidarity
5. What Morton's book is about
6. Economics and enjoyment
7. Morton on "correlationism"
8. "Things" and "thing data"
9. Correlationism in leftist thinking
10. Nonhumans and nature
11. On solidarity as commonality
12. Morton's "Severing"
13. Indigenous thinking on "interanimality"
14. Trauma and the nonhuman
15. Winnicott's "transitional objects"
16. The trauma of things
17. Alienation from the biosphere
18. "Explosive holism"
19. The violent establishment of the "human world"
20. Agricultural religion
21. Esoteric mandala theory
22. Philosophy and religion, capitalism and agriculture
23. Bracha Ettinger and "being towards birth"
24. Morton on communism
25. Adam Smith, aesthetic attunement, and empathy
26. Lions and dentists
27. Work and the maintenance of the body
28. "Nonhuman access modes"
29. Facsist resistance to nonhuman solidarity
30. Morton's critique of "sustainability"
31. Racism underlies speciesism
32. Morton on "withdrawn" objects
33. Morton's "spectral"
34. Universal "shimmying"
35. Ecology and revolution
36. "Metabolic economic relations"
37. Humans as hyperobjects
38. Marx on humanity's "species-life"
39. Waste as human
40. Nietzsche on logic
41. "Agrilogistics" and its discontents
42. Mesopotamian utilitarianism and the population paradox
43. Morton's critique of "substance ontology"
44. Art, sex, and death
45. The top level of agricultural religion
46. Morton on magic
47. Morton on "Being and Time"
48. Animal magnetism and Kantian beauty
49. Physical causality
50. Marx, Kant, and the nonhuman
51. Ecological beings
52. Morton on imagination
53. Morton on commodity fetishism
54. Production, in Morton's analysis
55. Haunting
56. Beauty and kitsch
57. The "inorganic body"
58. Morton on God
59. Ecological criticism
60. Spectrality, species rarity, and extinction
61. X-species
62. "Nowness"
63. Acting, behaving, and time
64. Spectrality, ambiguity, and accuracy
65. Morton on quantum states
66. Morton on the mind
67. Morton on justice and forgiveness
68. The existence of qualities of existence
69. Kant and beauty
70. Morton on beauty
71. "World"
72. Shared worlds
73. "Worlding"
74. "Miaow"
75. "Mesocosm"
76. Ecosystems are vague
77. Morton on withdrawal
78. Subscendence
79. The ecological argument against holism
80. The "infinite regress" of entities
81. More real, and greater
82. Novelty and revolution
83. Hegel, art, and irony
84. Dumb questions
85. You and what others can see of you
86. No-self
87. Solar economies vs oil economies
88. Heaps
89. Transcendence vs immanence
90. Subscendent ecology
91. Two ways of thinking about alienation
92. "-morphizing"
93. Morton's "personhood"
94. "Nafthology"
95. Humans and the future
96. "Reasons and Persons"
97. "Race: An Introduction"
98. Action and passivity, for Morton
99. Morton on consumer products
100. The "need-desire binary"
101. Morton on consumerism and pleasure
102. The fascinating
103. Enhancing nonhuman pleasure modes
104. Exiting agrilogistic continuity
105. "Grief work"
106. Beauty and death
107. The silly
108. Paranoia and solidarity
109. Individualism, for Morton
110. Kropotkin on mutual aid among the "labouring classes"
111. Kropotkin and play
112. Morton's "rocking"
113. Distributed agency
114. Queer horror modes
115. Ghost beings in the psyche
116. Kundalini awareness
117. Against "mindfulness"
118. Ecological awareness
119. Rocks viewed at scale
120. "Veering"

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