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Atlas of Places

Infrastructure Patterns VI

2019

For some time we may have thought the U-bend in the toilet was a convenient curvature of ontological space that took whatever we flush down it into a totally different dimension called Away, leaving things clean over here. Now we know better: instead of the mythical land Away, we know that waste goes to the Pacific Ocean or the wastewater treatment facility. Knowledge of the hyperobject Earth and of the hyperobject biosphere, presents us with viscous surfaces from which nothing can be forcibly peeled. There is no Away on this surface, no here and no there.

Infrastructure Patterns VI
Chittagong I, Bangladesh
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Chittagong II, Bangladesh
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Chittagong III, Bangladesh
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Chittagong IV, Bangladesh
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Chittagong V, Bangladesh
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Alang I, India
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Alang II, India
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Alang III, India
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Alang IV, India
Location: South Asia

Text: Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects, Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, 2013


Posted: September 2019
Category: Research