Adorno, Theodor, 61
Age of Sensibility, 143–144
Agricultural civilization, 9, 48, 76, 77
Agricultural logistics/agrilogistics, 10–11, 93, 99–100, 101, 104, 118
Agricultural religion, xxv, 28, 52, 58, 96, 129–130, 132, 146
Agriculture, xli–xlii, 19, 24–25, 96–97. See also Agricultural civilization; Agricultural logistics/agrilogistics; Agricultural religion
and global warming, 34, 76, 96, 130
AIDS, 87
al Qaeda, 147
Althusser, Louis, 138
Amazon rainforest, 62
America. See United States of America (USA)
American ecological style, 141, 148–149
Animal magnetism, 80, 93, 99, 106
Animal rights, 60–61, 63
Anning, Mary, 24
Anthropocene, 5–6, 25, 140
Anthropocentrism, xxxiii, xxxvi, xli, 13, 20, 21, 22–23, 26, 78, 82, 84, 85, 96, 122, 146, 154, 155
Arctic, 15
Aretino, Pietro, 115
“Argument Clinic, The” (Monty Python sketch), 38–39
Aristotle, xiv, 85
Art, xvii, xxvii, 3, 19, 76, 78, 81, 151
appreciation/appreciation theory, 64, 111–115, 124–126
and beauty, 64–65, 77–78, 80, 81, 84, 124
and causality, 78–80, 107, 115, 118–120
and design, 84–86
and ecology, 12–13, 20, 71, 72–73, 88
experience of, 3
and facts, xix
and Kant, 108–109
and kitsch, 12
love of, 115, 124
Artificial intelligence, 47
Arts and Crafts, 79
Attunement, 70, 89–98, 101, 107–108, 111, 128, 150, 153, 156
and attunement space, 94
and charisma, 105
and mesmeric attunement, 109
unsettling nature of, 112, 114
Authenticity style. See Ecological thought
Bataille, Georges, 45, 151
Bateson, Gregory, 31
Baudelaire, Charles, 145
Beautiful soul (Hegel), 146–147
Beauty, 20, 70, 82, 126
and art, 64–65, 72–73, 77, 81–82, 88, 124
and causality, 85
and Kant, 3, 73–74, 77, 79–80, 108–109
and kitsch, 84, 88
mystery of, 8, 9–10, 12, 75, 108–109, 125
Beethoven, Ludwig Van, 53–54
Being (Heidegger), 131
Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud), 93
Biology, 100, 101, 119
Biosphere, 21, 30–33, 50–51, 52, 148–149
and Earth, 40–41
and ecological awareness, xiv, 32
and global warming, xxv–xxvi, 52
Birds, The (film), xxi
Blade Runner (film), 94
Blake, William, xvi, 33, 49
Boulder, CO, xxxcii, xxxix
Brain, The (TV show), 66
“Breathe” (song), xxxii
Buckaroo Banzai, 2
Buddha/Buddhism, xxxvii, xxxix, 8, 29, 32–33, 91, 132
Tibetan, 15
Bush, George W., 104
Bush Administration, 147
Byrne, David, 8, 55
Cage, John, 14
Carpenter, John, 20
Cartesian dualism, 127
Catastrophe. See Ecological catastrophe
Causality, 13, 31, 70, 90–91, 93–94, 95–96
and art, 79–80, 105, 115, 118–120
and beauty, 86
as magic, 79–85, 105, 107–108, 109, 110
and paranormal, 85
Chevron, 62
Christianity, 58, 99, 129–130, 146
Claude Glass, 144
Colbert, Stephen, xxviii, 4
Conservative Party (UK), 71
COP21, 71
Correlationism, 13–14, 104, 110, 149
CPH:DOX film festival, 71
Critique of Judgment (Kant), 109
Dark City (film), 93
Dark ecology, 14–16
Dark Mountain movement, 15
Dark Side of the Moon, The (Pink Floyd album), xxxii
Darwinism, 90
Dasein (Heideggerian term), 9, 14, 18, 104
Data, xvi–xvii, xxvi–xxvii, 25, 52, 154, 156–157
collection of, 72
data dump mode, xxi, xxii, xxiii–xxiv, xxix, 72, 154 (see also Information dump)
ecological data, xx, xxviii, 16, 72
and factoids/truthiness, xxviii, 83
interpretation of, xxvii–xxix, xxxi, xxxiv, 21
and Kant, 108–109
thing-data, xxx–xxxi, 3, 14, 74, 107–108
Death, 81, 93, 102–104, 111
Deconstructive philosophy, 7, 70, 74, 96, 130–131
Deleuze, Gilles, 11, 152
Derrida, Jacques, 70, 95, 97, 112, 130–131
Destruktion (Heideggerian term), 70
DNA, xviii, 32, 35–36, 37, 89, 101, 121, 140–141
Doctor Who (TV series), 12, 109
Eagleman, David, 66
Earth, xxvi, xxvii, xxx, xxxi, 5, 19, 23, 30–31, 46, 58, 129, 140, 147
and agricultural logistics, 93–94
and animals, 101
and biosphere, 40–42
and crust, 5
and economic flows, 151
and extinction, 5
without humans, 20–21
and private property, 70
from space, 52, 54, 147
systems of, 44–45, 47
Earthrise photos (NASA), 27
Ecclesiastes, 23
Ecological action, 16, 44, 55, 58, 59, 152
Ecological age, xli–xlii, 70–71
Ecological art, 12–13, 20, 71, 72–73, 88
Ecological awareness, 11–12, 16, 19, 23, 30, 64–65, 88, 156–157
and biosphere, xiv, 32
and data dump mode, 153–154
and interconnectedness of life, 42–44, 79
Ecological catastrophe, 20–21, 63, 100
Ecological ethics and politics, 3, 55, 57, 60–61, 123–124, 151
Ecological facts/knowledge, xx–xxi, xxv–xxvi, xxxv–xxxvi, 16
Ecological health, 32
Ecological information delivery mode, xvii–xix, xx–xxi, xxiii–xxiv
Ecological philosophy, 16, 46–47, 87
Ecological psychotherapy, 32
Ecological PTSD, xxii–xxiii, xxviii–xxix
Ecological science, 60–61
Ecological society, 11–12, 153
Ecological speech, xiv, 153
Ecological thought, 1–2, 15, 51, 57–58, 76, 102, 107, 135–157
authentic style of, 141–145
efficient style of, 148–153
and end of the world, 154–155
immersive style of, 139–141
and paranoia, 153–154
religious style of, 145–148
Ecological Thought, The (Morton), 76
Ecological violence, 100, 149
Ecological writing, xxxv–xxxvi
Ecosystems, 17, 61, 64, 155
Ecuador, 62
Efficient style. See Ecological thought
Einstein, Albert, 81, 93, 105, 117, 118
Eliasson, Olafar, 71, 62, 63, 65, 86
El Niño, 24
Enchantment, 79, 80, 99
End Permian Extinction, 5, 22
England, 49
Enlightenment, 117, 147
Environmentalism, xxiv, 60, 63, 65, 118, 130, 143, 147, 156
and Dark Mountain movement, 15
and disempowerment, 34
and environmentalist charities, 119
and information dump mode, xxv
and ontological gap, 54
and reductionism, 63–64
Epistemology, xix–xx
Equal temperament, 100–101
Euripides, 19
Evolution, xviii, xxx, 24, 73, 87, 90, 123, 157
Excluded Middle region/zone, 1, 127
Ezekiel, 28
Factoid/s, xviii–xix, xxviii, xxix, xxxi, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxix, 4, 72, 132. See also Truthiness
Fall (Judeo-Christian belief), 96, 146
Free will, xxv, 60–67, 84, 115
Freud, Sigmund, xxii–xxiii, xxiv, 14, 24, 93, 102
and paranormal, 99
Fuller, Buckminster, 106
Futurality, 75, 78, 82, 86, 87
Gaia, 47
Generation X, 130
Genesis, xxx
Geneva, xxvii, 76
Geoengineering, 148–149
Global warming, xvi, xxiii, xxx, xxxiv, xxxv, 17–18, 24, 31, 70–71, 101, 148
and agriculture, xlii, 10–11, 34, 76, 120
and art, 72–74
and biosphere, xxvi, 52
and carbon emissions, xxvii, xlii, 153
and causality, 108
denial of, xix, xxix, xxxi–xxxii, xxxvi
facts about, xxii
global warming information mode, xix, xxiii–xxiv, xxix
and mass extinction, xiv, xxiii–xxiv, xxv, xlii, 5, 10, 22, 156
and media, 21
God, 22, 28, 47–48, 52, 55, 74, 116–117, 155
Goebbels, Joseph, 77
Google, xv, 25
Gore, Al, 25
Harman, Graham, xiv, xl
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 9, 14, 91, 94–95, 146
Heidegger, Martin, xiv, 6–7, 39, 70, 73–74, 131, 133
and Christianity, 129
and Dasein, 9, 14, 18
and Nazism, 3–4, 9, 39
and object-oriented ontology, xl
and truth/untruth, 3–4, 18
Heracles (play), 19
Hermeneutic circle, 21
Higgs boson, xxvii, 53
Hinduism, 58, 146
Hitchcock, Alfred, xxi
Hitler, Adolf, 127, 128
Holocene, 25, 101
Homo sapiens, 121, 127
Houston, TX, 65, 106, 123
Hume, David, xxxi–xxxii, 13, 108
Husserl, Edmund, 34–38, 40
Hyperobjects, xxx, 24, 76–77
Ice Watch (art installation), 71–72, 75, 86
Immersion style. See Ecological thought
Inconvenient Truth, An (film), 25
India, xxvi
Industrial Revolution, xxv
Information dump, xviii, xx, xxii–xxiii, xxxv, 16. See also Data, data dump mode
Interconnectedness of life, 27–55
Islam, 99
Jainism, 60
Jordan, Chris, 76
Judaism, 58
Kant, Immanuel, xiv, xxxi, xxxii, 8–9, 13–14, 37, 39, 65, 99, 104
and art, 108–109
and beauty, 3–4, 73–74, 75–76, 77, 79–80, 109
and ocean of reason, 35–36
and paranormal, 80
Keats, John, 8
King/s, 48, 99, 106
Kingsnorth, Paul, 15
Kitsch, xxxii, 12, 84, 88, 114
Lacan, Jacques, 89, 138
Lago Agrio oil field, 62
Large Hadron Collider, xxvii
Linear A writing, 96
Linear B writing, 96
Linklater, Richard, 130
Logical sentences, 34–36, 50
Lovelock, James, 47
Love of art, 115, 124
Love of wisdom (philosophy), 2, 12, 112
Lydon, Johnny, 113
Mars, 31, 41
Marx, Karl, 9, 14, 24, 47, 99
Mass extinction, 1–26
Matrix, The (film), 28
Mesmer, Anton, 80, 99
Mesopotamia, 9, 10–11, 25
Metaphysics (Aristotle), 85
Michelangelo, 116
Modern art, xxxv
Monty Python’s Flying Circus (TV series), 38–39
Morris, William, 78, 79
My Bloody Valentine (album), 81
NASA (National Aeronautical Space Administration), 27
Nature, xxxiv, xxxv, 24–25, 94, 96, 101–102, 127, 144–145
Nazi Party, 4, 77
Neanderthals, 101, 121, 123, 127
Neolithic civilization/era, 11, 28, 48, 76, 96, 99–101, 107, 130, 145
Neoplatonic Christianity, 62, 66, 70, 114
Newton, Isaac, 116
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 9, 14, 22, 155
Object-oriented ontology (OOO), xiv, xl–xlii, 7, 9, 14, 38, 72, 82, 84, 96–98
O’Doherty, Brian, 113, 114–115
“Once in a Lifetime” (song), 8
Ontology, xix–xx, 25, 48, 53–54, 76, 82, 92, 95–96, 104, 116, 118, 123. See also Object-oriented ontology (OOO)
Other, the, xv
Owl of Minerva, 94–95
Oxygenation Catastrophe, 141
Pacific Garbage Vortex, 76
Paleolithic era society, 9, 90, 93–94
Panthéon (Paris), 71, 75, 78
Paranoia, 153–154
Paranormal, 80, 85, 99
Paris, 71, 72, 75
Phaedrus (Plato), xxv
Phenomenological and hermeneutic philosophy, 94
Phenomenological style, 21, 75, 138
Philosophy, xiv, xix, 2–4, 112. See also Althusser, Louis; Aristotle; Bataille, Georges; Deconstructive philosophy; Deleuze, Gilles; Derrida, Jacques; Ecological philosophy; Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich; Heidegger, Martin; Hume, David; Husserl, Edmund; Kant, Immanuel; Lacan, Jacques; Love of wisdom (philosophy); Marx, Karl; Object-oriented ontology (OOO); Phenomenological and hermeneutic philosophy; Plato; Reductionism; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
and AIDS, 87
and artificial intelligence, 46–47
and ecology, 16
of Hegel, 91
of Heidegger, xl, 3, 7–8, 70, 73, 130–131
of Husserl, 34–35
of Kant, 3, 39, 73
and the Other, xv
of Plato, 105
and totality, 33
Western, 13, 34, 39, 85, 91, 149
Pink Floyd (band), xxxi
Plato, xxv, 79
Platonism, 79, 129–130
Polonius (Hamlet character), 98
Possibility space/s, xv, xvii, xix, 45
Postmodern art, xxxv, 12
Postmodernism, 13, 14, 115
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), xxii–xxiii, xxiv
Psychologism, 34–35
PTSD. See Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Quantum theory, 15, 81, 105, 118
Queen Mab (Shelley), 117
R2D2 (Star Wars robot), 120, 127–128
Reductionism, 64, 126
Religious style. See Ecological thought
Romantic art, xxxii, xxxviii
Romantic poets, xxxii, xxxv, 143, 144–145
Rothko, Mark, 105–106, 111, 113, 114, 115
Rothko Chapel, 105–106, 111–112
Rotten, Johnny. See Lydon, Johnny
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 144
Ruins of Empires, The (Volney), 117
Ruskin, John, 116
Sagan, Carl, 147
Sami people, 110
Schrödinger, Erwin, 106
Scientism, xxviii, 78
“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” (song), 115
Shambhala Sun (magazine), 32
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 117
Simpsons, The (TV cartoon series), 135
Sistine Chapel, 116
Sixth Mass Extinction, 5, 101
Slacker (film), 130
Smith, Charlotte, 145
Social media, 18, 146
Sociology, 98–99
Solar power, 153
Solar system, 147
Songs of Innocence and Experience (Blake), 33
Sorites paradox, 17
Spacetime, 116, 117
Spectral Plain, 126, 128, 129, 130
Star Wars (film), 80, 120
Steinbach, Ham, 10
Symbiosis, 129, 147, 157
Talking Heads (band), 12
Teleology, 90, 100, 109
Tendzin, Ösel, xxxix
Texas, 152
Thing, The (film), 20
Thing-data. See Data
Tibetan Buddhism. See Buddha/Buddhism
Toxic products, 147, 152, 153
Truthiness, xxvii–xxxi, 4, 6, 12, 18, 22, 65, 83, 130. See also Factoid/s
Tuning, 55–133. See also Attunement
Twitter, 18
United States of America (USA), 48, 141, 147–148
Universe, 115, 117–118
Victorians, 22, 24
Volney, C. F., 117
Voyager space probe, 147
Waters, Roger, xxxi–xxxii
Weber, Max, 98–99
West (American), xix
Western civilization/human history, 9, 26, 82, 87
Wilde, Oscar, 81
Winfrey, Oprah, 8
Wordsworth, William, 145
X-Men/X-power, 84
Yoda-ness, 80
Zeus, 19
Zurkow, Marina, 20