a liquid platform on the climate crisis,
anthropocenic interactions and ecological transition
a project by MUSE Science Museum Trento conceived
and curated by Stefano Cagol
Timothy Morton’s eco-thought at the MUSE as part of
the We Are the Flood platform
The philosopher Timothy Morton, one of the most
relevant protagonists of the current
philosophical-ecological landscape, will give a lectio
magistralis at the MUSE Science Museum in Trento on October
13, 2023, in the frame of We Are the Flood, the creative
platform on the climate crisis and Anthropocene interactions
conceived and curated by Stefano Cagol.
Morton’s intervention is the focal event of the
two-year We Are the Flood, developed through exhibition
projects, performances, masterclasses, artist-in-residence
and conferences, and a low-cost and low-impact method
according to an environmental ethic. Faced with ever-faster
eco-cultural changes, a science museum triggers an alliance
with the humanities and the universal language of
contemporary art to translate complex issues such as
environmental topics, that are diffuse, changeable, and
inconstant in time and space, as described by Morton.
For We Are the Flood, Morton
presents an unmissable lesson.
Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in
English at Rice University. He has collaborated with Björk,
Laurie Anderson, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir,
Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Justin Guariglia,
Olafur Eliasson, and Pharrell Williams. Morton co-wrote and
appears in Living in the Future’s Past, a 2018 film
about global warming with Jeff Bridges. He is the author of
the libretto for the opera Time Time Time by
Jennifer Walshe. He is the author of Being Ecological
(Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman
People (Verso, 2017), Dark Ecology: For a Logic of
Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing:
Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects:
Philosophy
and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota,
2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality
(Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought
(Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard,
2007), eight other books and 250 essays on philosophy,
ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and
food. Morton’s work has been translated into 10 languages.
