Hell Is Now Even Outselling the Audiobooks

 It's been the highest selling book (even on pre-order) on Amazon for a week but now it's the highest selling anything. ?!! 

...and I'll Be Launching HELL in The Old Church Hackney

 “A not-for-profit arts venue in the heart of Stoke Newington, and the only surviving Elizabethan church in London.”

Friday June 13. More details to follow! 

I'll Be Launching Hell in the UK in the Octagon Chapel in Norwich

 “The Octagon Chapel is a Unitarian Chapel located in Colegate in Norwich, Norfolk, England. The Chapel is a grade II* listed building. Completed in 1756 by the architect Thomas Ivory and is home to a growing liberal religious community of Unitarians, welcoming people of all religious faiths and none.”

Here's how to sign up! 

Hell Is Now Outperforming My Other Books

 ...and it hasn't even been published yet. This happened to Hyperobjects: the first edition sold out before it appeared in the shops. 

WHAT IS A FACT? Wow, This Piece about My Class Is Exploding

 Every ten minutes, about one hundred people read it. 

SACRED MUSIC AND BIOSPHILIA: Online Event with DJ Spooky at Yale Today!

 You can register here for a wonderful event with composers, including DJ Spooky, with a talk by me. It's at 5:30pm EST. 

HELL BOOK LAUNCH UK: Norwich June 12!

 I'll be at the Book Hive in Norwich on 12 June for an exclusive event, and we're also planning an event with the wonderful Sainsbury Centre art museum, which I've loved since I was 13 years old! 

It would be my honor to see you and sign books...

Daniel Pinchbeck on Me on Zizek

There are definite and significant overlaps between Pinchbeck's thought and mine regarding the left and religion. This is a great essay. Excerpt: 

The philosopher Timothy Morton (Hyperobjects) sees in Žižek’s often-expressed “hostility” to  Buddhism “a narcissistic woundedness so painful that it seems better to paint the whole world with its raw colors than examine itself, even for a second.” I think this is true.

ENGL 101, What Is a Fact? featured in The Conversation

 Yes that's right. Thanks to the team at The Conversation my very popular class is now news! 

See You in St. Louis Next Week?

 I do hope, if you're near, that you can join me for an exclusive lecture and some book signing. It'll be at the Kemper Art Museum and my title is

THIS IS HELL: IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD

It'll be at 5:30pm on May 6. 

It will not be streamed. 

Organized in conjunction with the exhibition Santiago Sierra: 52 Canvases Exposed to Mexico City’s Air, Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University and director of the Cool America Foundation, will give a talk to celebrate the publication of their  new book Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology (Columbia University Press, 2024), which explores the relationship between religion and ecology in response to the climate crisis. Morton is the author of several books that bring together politics, art, and ecological studies to better understand how we coexist with one another and with non-humans. 

A book signing will follow the talk. Purchase Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology in the Museum Shop. 

Free and open to the public. Registration is requested. 

This event is co-sponsored by WashU’s Program in Public Scholarship and is part of the Sam Fox School's Public Lecture Series.

ASL Interpretation

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American Sign Language interpretation can be arranged for public events upon request. This service is free, but we ask for two weeks' notice. Requests can be made by contacting kempereducation@wustl.edu.

About the Speaker

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Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University and director of the Cool America Foundation. They are the author of more than twenty books, including Hyperobjects, Dark Ecology, and Ecology Without Nature. Morton has collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jeff Bridges, Olafur Eliasson, Susan Kucera, Adam McKay, and Jennifer Walshe.

Acid Tracks (in case you didn't know)

 ...by Phuture, aka DJ Pierre, with whom I was talking at IMS last week on Ibiza. 

I Spoke with Phuture about the Future in Ibiza

 Yes. One of my heroes. The reason I write so much of what I write. DJ Pierre, who turned an envelope filter on the Roland TR-303 baseline and changed music. Who made scary dance music, an innovation in itself: acid house. 

I was on a panel with him at IMS Ibiza this week, having given the keynote to set the tone for the whole conference of about 1000 DJs, producers and musicians. Other panelists included DJ Madame Gandhi, who was brilliant, and Georgia Taglietti, who seemed to have read everything I had ever done, Maria May and Ruth Daniel, who both spoke plangently on the ethical and political dimensions of techno. 

Paradise (Hell lecture)

 500 people, Syracuse University Art Museum. Thank you thank you to Edward Morris and Susannah Sayler! 

Timothy Morton · Paradise

Earth Day Rant from Hell

 I made MAGA. I did. Well not just me. 

1. I can only take responsibility myself for what I see in the world. 

2.  People like me stopped talking about God to our students. 

3. Ecological language is Old Testament revenge speak and Joe Truck Driver has something BETTER: Jesus loves him anyway.

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5. Seriously I never got the memo about not speaking about God from theory class, at which I am a bona fide alpha plus student. A never given grade at Oxford which I got for my theory exam. The top is alpha minus. Believe me I can destroy you using Hegelian Marxism. But I shan't. Because it sucks. 

6. Until people like me talk forgiveness and mercy and Jesus we have ceded a HUGE area to the ultra right. 

7. This is the main reason I wrote Hell. It's coming. 

8. All the scientistic yelling has done jack lshit. 

9. Scholars created the internet as the Wild West forgetting about the legacy of slavery and what would happen if there was a new Wild West. 

Hellspike for Earth Day

 The single fang of Björk and the molars of books versus the triple snaggleteeth of Hell LOLOL

"The Marriage of Religion and the Biosphere" (massive awesome interview (MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF BLAKE))

 

Great New Interview