The Mesh and Hyperobjects

“The concept of the '==mesh==' is central to Timothy Morton's dark ecology. It's about how everything on Earth is interconnected, both human and non-human. The ==mesh== recognizes that we are all enmeshed with each other: causally entangled. Morton argues that there aren't any fixed or clear-cut boundaries between individual entities in the ==mesh==. Instead, they are porous, allowing matter-energy-information exchanges from one thing to another. [...] Morton coined the term 'hyperobjects' to describe phenomena that are enormous in scale yet difficult for us to fully comprehend or grasp. Climate change is an example of a highly illustrative ==hyperobject==, it impacts every element of our planet while being too large and complex to comprehend from any single vantage point. You can see its local manifestations but never the whole. — Discussed in 'What Is Timothy Morton's Dark Ecology?', The Collector (2024); based on Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology (2016) and Hyperobjects (2013)”