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Come to This in London on Friday!

It's a thing by me about global warming and how to live it ...it's in Shoreditch. Should be really fun!

Stockholm Next Friday

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Maybe 500 people coming at present...

I'll be Talking at the Serpentine Marathon

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...wow, the title is such perfect timing for  Humankind : “ Guest, Ghost, Host, Machine ”?! They could have been chapter titles! London, October 7! The description is ace: The 2017 Marathon brings together artists, scientists, activists, engineers, poets, sociologists, philosophers, filmmakers, writers, anthropologists, theologians and musicians to consider the advent of ‘artificial intelligence’, consciousness, interspecies cooperation, machines, trans-humanism and non-linear time.

Next Up

Stockholm next week for a landscape architecture organization. Week after that, London. I'm talking with Penguin about my stuff (wow they're so professional, they're for real and there's a reason why they're the best), and doing a thing for the band Test Dept. and something for Hans Ulrich Obrist's 2017 marathon at the Serpentine. Those things are on Saturday. And I'm doing a lecture on global warming and morality and politics and stuff. Details to follow!

Tim Answers an Email

Boy oh boy I answered it about nine months late! I'm so busy... Anyway I thought you might like these brief answers. Questions are as they appear in the email: 1, In relation to OOO what connections do you think there are with the new ideas that we are now in an Anthropocene Epoch? Well, we are aware of gigantic entities whose data is obviously different from what they are, which is the basic OOO insight. Things don’t coincide with thing data. It’s just that the hyperobjects (such as climate, biosphere…) are big enough for us to be able to know this intuitively. 2, What is your thinking on land fill ? and how in your opinion does that contribute to this environmental change? Not much! I haven’t yet. That doesn’t mean I shouldn’t in future. 3, What is your opinion on humans having  a greater connection with materialistic object around them, than they now have with the earth that supports them? Unfortunately there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism. Eco...

Being Ecological, My Next Book, Coming in January

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Lecture today at the University of Southern Denmark

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