Timothy Morton's HUMANKIND: SOLIDARITY WITH NONHUMAN PEOPLE

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1. Morton's "symbiotic real"/"implosive whole"

2. Morton's "symbiosis"

3. Language in the symbiotic real

4. Morton on solidarity

5. What Morton's book is about

6. Economics and enjoyment

7. Morton on "correlationism"

8. "Things" and "thing data"

9. Correlationism in leftist thinking

10. Nonhumans and nature

11. On solidarity as commonality

12. Morton's "Severing"

13. Indigenous thinking on "interanimality"

14. Trauma and the nonhuman

15. Winnicott's "transitional objects"

16. The trauma of things

17. Alienation from the biosphere

18. "Explosive holism"

19. The violent establishment of the "human world"

20. Agricultural religion

21. Esoteric mandala theory

22. Philosophy and religion, capitalism and agriculture

23. Bracha Ettinger and "being towards birth"

24. Morton on communism

25. Adam Smith, aesthetic attunement, and empathy

26. Lions and dentists

27. Work and the maintenance of the body

28. "Nonhuman access modes"

29. Facsist resistance to nonhuman solidarity

30. Morton's critique of "sustainability"

31. Racism underlies speciesism

32. Morton on "withdrawn" objects

33. Morton's "spectral"

34. Universal "shimmying"

35. Ecology and revolution

36. "Metabolic economic relations"

37. Humans as hyperobjects

38. Marx on humanity's "species-life"

39. Waste as human

40. Nietzsche on logic

41. "Agrilogistics" and its discontents

42. Mesopotamian utilitarianism and the population paradox

43. Morton's critique of "substance ontology"

44. Art, sex, and death

45. The top level of agricultural religion

46. Morton on magic

47. Morton on "Being and Time"

48. Animal magnetism and Kantian beauty

49. Physical causality

50. Marx, Kant, and the nonhuman

51. Ecological beings

52. Morton on imagination

53. Morton on commodity fetishism

54. Production, in Morton's analysis

55. Haunting

56. Beauty and kitsch

57. The "inorganic body"

58. Morton on God

59. Ecological criticism

60. Spectrality, species rarity, and extinction

61. X-species

62. "Nowness"

63. Acting, behaving, and time

64. Spectrality, ambiguity, and accuracy

65. Morton on quantum states

66. Morton on the mind

67. Morton on justice and forgiveness

68. The existence of qualities of existence

69. Kant and beauty

70. Morton on beauty

71. "World"

72. Shared worlds

73. "Worlding"

74. "Miaow"

75. "Mesocosm"

76. Ecosystems are vague

77. Morton on withdrawal

78. Subscendence

79. The ecological argument against holism

80. The "infinite regress" of entities

81. More real, and greater

82. Novelty and revolution

83. Hegel, art, and irony

84. Dumb questions

85. You and what others can see of you

86. No-self

87. Solar economies vs oil economies

88. Heaps

89. Transcendence vs immanence

90. Subscendent ecology

91. Two ways of thinking about alienation

92. "-morphizing"

93. Morton's "personhood"

94. "Nafthology"

95. Humans and the future

96. "Reasons and Persons"

97. "Race: An Introduction"

98. Action and passivity, for Morton

99. Morton on consumer products

100. The "need-desire binary"

101. Morton on consumerism and pleasure

102. The fascinating

103. Enhancing nonhuman pleasure modes

104. Exiting agrilogistic continuity

105. "Grief work"

106. Beauty and death

107. The silly

108. Paranoia and solidarity

109. Individualism, for Morton

110. Kropotkin on mutual aid among the "labouring classes"

111. Kropotkin and play

112. Morton's "rocking"

113. Distributed agency

114. Queer horror modes

115. Ghost beings in the psyche

116. Kundalini awareness

117. Against "mindfulness"

118. Ecological awareness

119. Rocks viewed at scale

120. "Veering"