Disintegrator LONGUE DURÉE Pt. 2 (w/ Timothy Morton)
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Apr 7, 2025 Timothy Morton, writer and theorist known for ecology and object-oriented ontology, reflects on theology, communism, and the aesthetics of planetary-scale care. He traces religious and political shifts, discusses trauma and therapy, and riffs on Spacecraft, Star Wars, and playful political imagination. The conversation circles love, mercy, and how small-group ethics might scale to planetary politics.
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Philosophy As Cognitive Mapping For Ecology
- Timothy Morton treats philosophy as clownish cognitive mapping to figure out where we are in ecological crises.
- He moved from quiet academic signals in Ecology Without Nature to louder, autobiographical writing to better map hyperobjects and political reality.
Mount Kailash Pilgrimage That Made Religion Feel Hyperobject
- Morton compares Tibetan Buddhism's ceremonial orthodoxy to Catholicism and recounts pilgrimage to Mount Kailash with butter lamps and monasteries.
- He describes the sensory overload and institutional scale that made him see religion as hyperobject-like.
Survivor Story Of Abuse And Therapy
- Morton reveals childhood trauma and abusive family ties including links to the London crime syndicate and a violent household.
- He credits long-term therapy, psychoanalysis and EMDR for gradual recovery and later shifts in belief.
