Tim Morton Has a Blog

Another promising academic career strangled in the... Well, I guess he doesn't really have to worry about that part anymore. UC Davis's Tim Morton (author of Ecology without Nature) has just started a blog. Here he is riding one of my chief hobby-horse, apocalypse:

I believe that one thing we have to get used to is that the ecological catastrophe has already occurred.

The extent to which post-apocalyptic fantasies push the “catastrophe point” forwards into the future is directly proportional to how much we want to ward off the fact that it has already happened.