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If you're in Tokyo (lucky you!) and you happen to be in or near Roppongi, do stop by the art museum to witness their very creative and thoughtful exhibition on catastrophe. If you've read my stuff you'll know I think catastrophe is better than disaster (they're different!) and at the very least we should turn global warming into a catastrophe (there are witnesses) not a disaster (no witnesses). Anyway, the exhibition closes with a chance to write your thoughts about refugees, asylum seekers, trauma and everything, courtesy of Yoko Ono, then you can obtain a shirt that says WAR IS OVER which is the best t shirt since FRANKIE SAY WAR in 1984...

Have you ever read Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind , by Shunryu Suzuki? If you haven't do so at once lol...it gives you the best best best mediation instruction, no matter what contemplative lineage you're in (or not). And somewhere in the middle is the most wonderful mysterious thing: two blank pages, with a life-size drawing of a fly on the upper right hand corner of the double-page spread. That's the moment of mind transmission right there! I'm not spoiling it by telling you. That's the amazing lovely thing about meditation: it proves that you can surprise yourself, aka that the future is possible, and new things can happen. I read it when I was 17. I was so upset...then I read this book and it totally changed my life. As we head into global warming space ever further, I can't insist enough on you having some kind of healing centering self-soothing practice that you do, whether it be making yourself a nice sandwich or meditating or donating to your favorite cha...

If you've gotten a copy you'll see something interesting somewhere in the middle there. It was so awesome she agreed to this. Look at the top of the doorway:

Here's what I've written for the guide: Will All Artists Please Come to a White Courtesy Telephone Timothy Morton Art has one foot in the past, and one foot in the future. All the decisions, deliberate and not deliberate, that a host of things made--we could call this host the author or the artist (historical era, economic system—these two are often included, ecosystem not so much quite yet). Then again, just what exactly is this work of art? What is it “saying” (and so on). Such questions trail off into a kind of quietness we might call the future. Threateningly gentle, it haunts the machinations that brought us to wherever we’re calling “here” at the moment. And that’s the whole point, isn’t it? (As my old Oxford tutor Terry Eagleton was fond of saying.) At whatever scale we zoom out to, we aren’t in control as humans at all—not even on the ones we inhabit, not in control as much anyway, because the whole point of inhabiting is that it’s unstable, it’s in motion (hint: it has...

If you're anywhere near Barcelona do go to the CCCB and see After the End of the World, an exhibition I helped to design with five rooms designed by me with mini lectures about time, hyperobjects, waiting...things to do with ecological awareness. They just passed thirty thousand visitors!

So many things happening: lecture by me, rooms I designed etc etc etc  because this ladies and gentlemen is the first hyperobjects exhibition on the planet Recognize the title?

I'm going to be giving a little lecture at the Kunstlerhaus Bethianen today at 6pm. It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake, at a time at which the urge to collapse into the fetal position is high. I think there's some art out there that you need inside of you, and we're going to be exploring that from inside some of it, because this is an installation of tremendous power and eloquence called Mirror Matter, by Emilija Škarnulytė.

When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it's called a tragedy. When you see a lot of people doing it on stage, it's called Fawlty Towers.  Discuss.

Beautifully paired by Hans-Ulrich Obrist with Kathelin Gray and Genesis P-Orridge.

Derniers instants d'une lecture de tarot de Blake, au Palais de Tokyo pendant Notte Lusoria. #theta360 #theta360fr - Spherical Image - RICOH THETA

At the Palais de Tokyo . 5pm to midnight. In the basement of dreams. Alex Cecchetti's Notte Lusoria . Piano, whales, glass harmonica, choir, tarot readings, a bar where a centaur will hear your love stories as payment for cocktails, and ever so much more.

Sorry about the sound quality. This was done in the Fine Arts Academy in Munich as part of the Hybrid Ecologies series. Thanks to my wonderful hosts there, especially Susanne Witzgall and Maria Muhle.

This is me and Cary Wolfe in dialogue at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, on the occasion of the Avant Museology conference (e-flux). Lively and at one point intense--always getting the no vibes from the Hegelians...Also, there's a fun animation I made. What you can't hear is all the laughing in the audience!

Oh this was so nice. I'm so grateful to Solveig Ovstebo and Karsten Lund for their incredible hosting. What a lovely occasion. And I met an old friend I hadn't seen for ages, David Pantos. The space was really big and fun too, and packed. The occasion was an exhibition of the work of my new friend Ben Rivers, including the film Urth , which was inspired by my book Dark Ecology . Timothy Morton: Things Just Got Weird from The Renaissance Society on Vimeo .

This was part of the wonderful Marfa Dialogues presented by Ballroom Marfa at the Museum of Fine Art in Houston on March 26, 2016. Thanks so much to the whole Ballroom crew and in particular, Susan Sutton and Laura Copelin. You are so so so good. You'll also hear Mandy Barker , whose photographs I was really really keen to talk about. I said they looked like the covers of some of the later Cocteau Twins albums (in particular Four Calendar Café), then she told me she'd worked for 4AD!!! Then we played Rachel Rose's Sitting Feeding Sleeping, one of the most powerful ecological awareness films I've ever seen, ever.