The Ontological is Political: Timothy Morton

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2024
  • Timothy Morton is the author of Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People www.versobooks...

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  • @DischordInMyHead
    @DischordInMyHead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Well, biosphere was the last thing that needs clarification in this video

    • @newchannelname3395
      @newchannelname3395 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      hard to clarify things that make no sense though

  • @flipmcdonought5835
    @flipmcdonought5835 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Interesting. Thank you - I’ve just finished an MA thesis on Being and Time and the internet and this rings a few bells …

    • @squiggleturtle
      @squiggleturtle ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Interested to read if this is published anywhere

  • @DrugCultGang
    @DrugCultGang 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Reminds me of Sartre's phenomenological view on the essence of humans in his claim "existence precedes essence"

  • @geoffreydawson5430
    @geoffreydawson5430 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Why not study up? For example, from a political/religious point of view. The contemporary world is currently split by a Protestant world view (Weber) and a now secularized simplification of Buddhist Mindfulness for self regulation (Foucault). Take the political upheaval Jordan Peterson has created through his pronoun critique of left wing politics. As a result we have a tribal mentality amongst many men with a few woman attaching themselves with his, I argue, heavily influenced, to the point of dogmatic, Christian analogy of Jungian's shadow side. Now compare this with the newly introduced secular mindfulness as a form of public pacification for a neoliberal political/economic structure. My connection of this split to that of the 'Ontological Turn' is in the need of the individual, through mindfulness practices, to look within and their connections to present awareness to the all inclusive connectivity with existence, instead of an other worldly external belief in a God. This, I argue, has many implications at a policy level in the make up of societies. Just where does power lie? And what does this do to those institutions reliant on Christian worldviews. In defense, secular mindfulness trainers will proclaim mindfulness is a universal human sense of being and thus those with other religions can merge their beliefs. But, again I argue, from the point of view of an Ontological Turn, the ontology of Mindfulness from its truly Buddhist foundations has vast complexities and nuances than those simply provided through contemporary psychology. Instead of simplifying contemporary mindfulness as Protestant Buddhism, rather we should be reflecting on the shift back to a more interconnective relationship with a grounded this worldly acceptance of reality, rather than the Protestant driven forms of colonialism which stripped many cultures of their this worldly relationship with existence. I don't know if this helps but Gabor Mate, a Marxist leaning academic/medical doctor for me helps to disconnect power structure from the individual and to rather explore the individual being with a greater connectivity with all that encompass the notion of being. Although he is still encaged by his medical training to insure he sounds sane. th-cam.com/video/66cYcSak6nE/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=TEDxTalks

  • @JustinLivingstondesign
    @JustinLivingstondesign 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What is non-human people?

    • @danielt6219
      @danielt6219 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Rewatch from 1:30

  • @morralo
    @morralo ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ok you are marxist, we get it

  • @DrugCultGang
    @DrugCultGang 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    give me a book deal

    • @alaen2
      @alaen2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@DM-ks1pj spoken like a true philosopher

  • @squiggleturtle
    @squiggleturtle ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sandwiches are political

  • @LittleMushroomGuy
    @LittleMushroomGuy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Literally nothing talk and a bastardisation of ontology

  • @bruno.6610
    @bruno.6610 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is nonsense