Air Pollution in the Anthropocene: Fine Dust as Hyperobject
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In this paper, I explore a basic question: what does Timothy Morton’s theory of the hyperobject have to teach us about PM2.5? Understanding PM2.5 as a hyperobject, both in terms of its nonlocality and viscosity, can help us think about what it means to be ecologically aware and about the relationship between such awareness and social and environmental change. I argue that seeing fine dust as a hyperobject means that it must be understood as part of the much larger planetary crisis of global warming. Too often, air pollution and the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere are kept separate, not understood as two interrelated parts of the same problem. In his most recent book, Being Ecological, Morton writes, “Ecological awareness gives you a world in which everything is relevant to everything else, but is also really unique and vivid and distinct at the very same time” (43).
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In this paper, I explore a basic question: what does Timothy Morton’s theory of the hyperobject have to teach us about PM2.5? Understanding PM2.5 as a hyperobject, both in terms of its nonlocality and viscosity, can help us think about what it means to be ecologically aware and about the relationship between such awareness and social and environmental change. I argue that seeing fine dust as a hyperobject means that it must be understood as part of the much larger planetary crisis of global warming. Too often, air pollution and the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere are kept separate, not understood as two interrelated parts of the same problem. In his most recent book, Being Ecological, Morton writes, “Ecological awareness gives you a world in which everything is relevant to everything else, but is also really unique and vivid and distinct at the very same time” (43).
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