tailieunhanh - Ecology without Nature: RETHINKING ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS

Nobody likes it when you mention the unconscious, and nowadays, hardly anybody likes it when you mention the environment. You risk sounding boring or j udgmental or hysterical, or a mixture of all these. But there is a deeper reason. Nobody likes it when you mention the unconscious, not because you are pointing out something o bscene that should remain hidden-that is at least partly enjoyable. Nobody likes it because when you mention it, it becomes conscious. In the same way, when you mention the environment, you bring it into the foreground. In other words, it stops being the environment. It stops being That Thing Over There that surrounds. | WITHOUT NATURE Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics Timothy Morton Ecology without Nature RETHINKING ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS TIMOTHY MORTON HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge Massachusetts and London England 2007 Copyright 2007 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America ISBN-13 978-0-674-02434-2 ISBN-10 0-674-02434-6 The Cataloging-in-Publication Data are available from the Library of Congress. Epigraph to Chapter 1 To the Reader by Denise Levertov from Poems 1960-1967 copyright 1961 by Denise Levertov. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Pollinger Limited and the proprietor. Pink Floyd Grantchester Meadows Ummagwmma EMI 1969 . Words and Music by Roger Waters. Copyright 1970 Renewed and 1980 Lupus Music Co. Ltd. London England. TRO-Hampshire House Publishing Corp. New York controls all publication rights for the . and Canada. Used by .