So what are hyperobjects, exactly? That's an excellent question. I may as well allow Morton to answer, since he invented the concept. Hyperobjects, he writes, are:
- directly responsible for what I call the end of the world
- real whether or not someone is thinking of them
- real entities whose primordial reality is withdrawn from the world
- a good candidate for what Heidegger calls "the last god"
- harbingers of a truly "post-modern" age
- very uncanny
- vivid and often painful
- viscous
- disturbingly squishy and mollusk-like
- impossible to handle just right
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