“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Sunday, September 11, 2011

Hyperobjects Liveblog 11

Inspired by a page in Being and Time (which I'm still re-reading) I sat down and put down about 800 words just now. This is going somewhere between very smoothly and feverishly, a good sign that I'm ready to be writing it. There are now as many lines of argument going as there are sections in the book (nine including the introduction). If I only write 5000 words on each one, I will have 45 000 word template towards a first draft.

I'm pretty sure now that I'll be able to get to roughly 40 000 words without breaking open my notes or my previous texts on hyperobjects. Once I get there, I imagine I will break out the notes but not the written stuff, at least not yet. I may use that only at the end (70 000) when I look through to see if there's anything I missed.

2 comments:

C-Nihilist said...

hey. new to the blog here. listened to your Hyperobjects lecture at Rice and it blew my mind. looking forward to the book.

Timothy Morton said...

Wow thanks Montag--that's very nice of you.