Open Humanities Press has published a 2nd edition of Timothy Morton's Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality. Comes complete with a new preface by Morton.

Like all OHP books, Realist Magic is available open access:

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/realist-magic-2nd-ed/

Book description

#ObjectOriented ontology offers a startlingly fresh way to think about causality that takes into account developments in #physics since 1900. Causality, argues Object Oriented Ontology (OOO), is #aesthetic. In this book, Timothy Morton explores what it means to say that a thing has come into being, that it is persisting, and that it has ended. Drawing from examples in #physics, #biology, #ecology, #art, #literature and #music, Morton demonstrates the counterintuitive yet elegant explanatory power of OOO for thinking causality.

#philosophy #theory

The book is published as part of the New Metaphysics series:

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/new-metaphysics/

Open Humanities Press has published a 2nd edition of Timothy Morton's Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality. Comes complete with a new preface by Morton.

Like all OHP books, Realist Magic is available open access:

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/realist-magic-2nd-ed/

Book description

#ObjectOriented ontology offers a startlingly fresh way to think about causality that takes into account developments in #physics since 1900. Causality, argues Object Oriented Ontology (OOO), is #aesthetic. In this book, Timothy Morton explores what it means to say that a thing has come into being, that it is persisting, and that it has ended. Drawing from examples in #physics, #biology, #ecology, #art, #literature and #music, Morton demonstrates the counterintuitive yet elegant explanatory power of OOO for thinking causality.

#philosophy #theory

The book is published as part of the New Metaphysics series:

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/new-metaphysics/

Happy birthday to trailblazing #programmer & #computer scientist, Beatrice “Trixie” Worsley (1921-1972). My #linocut shows Worsley seated at the first computer in Canada, the FERUT (which she named) & a flow diagram of one of her programs.⁠
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Trixie Worsley earned one of the first doctorates in computer science anywhere, & was supervised by Douglas Hartree & Alan Turing at Cambridge. Amongst the first computer scientists 🧵

#WomenInSTEM #printmaking #sciart #histsci #mastoArt #physics #compsci

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Palm oil isn’t necessarily less sustainable than other oil crops, say conservation scientists https://www.diningandcooking.com/2339041/palm-oil-isnt-necessarily-less-sustainable-than-other-oil-crops-say-conservation-scientists/ #Materials #Mediterranean #MediterraneanOliveOil #Nanotech #Olive #OliveOil #Physics #PhysicsNews #science #ScienceNews #technology #TechnologyNews

Happy birthday to trailblazing #programmer & #computer scientist, Beatrice “Trixie” Worsley (1921-1972). My #linocut shows Worsley seated at the first computer in Canada, the FERUT (which she named) & a flow diagram of one of her programs.⁠
⁠
Trixie Worsley earned one of the first doctorates in computer science anywhere, & was supervised by Douglas Hartree & Alan Turing at Cambridge. Amongst the first computer scientists 🧵

#WomenInSTEM #printmaking #sciart #histsci #mastoArt #physics #compsci