For the next in our ongoing series of encounters with provocative thinkers exposing the flaws in a corrupted system and speaking truth to power, we're delighted to welcome the hugely influential and prolific cross-disciplinary thinker, artist and eco-philosopher Timothy Morton in their only London event on the occasion of publication for their new book Hell (Columbia University Press).

Timothy will be in conversation with writer, editor and curator Gareth Evans.

Hell will be on sale thanks to Burley Fisher Books and Timothy is available for signing.

Music is central to Timothy's vision of a better world so do please enjoy their Spotify playlist created in collaboration with the legendary David 'Pump Up the Volume' Dorrell especially for the book here: https://rb.gy/wrukur

Doors 7pm
Conversation begins at 7:30pm

About Hell:
Hell on earth is real. The toxic fusion of big oil, Evangelical Christianity, and white supremacy has ignited a worldwide inferno, more phantasmagoric than anything William Blake could dream up and more cataclysmic than we can fathom. Escaping global warming hell, this revelatory book shows, requires a radical, mystical marriage of Christianity and biology that awakens a future beyond white male savagery.

Timothy Morton argues that there is an unexpected yet profound relationship between religion and ecology that can guide a planet-scale response to the climate crisis. Spiritual and mystical feelings have a deep resonance with ecological thinking, and together they provide the resources environmentalism desperately needs in this time of climate emergency. Morton finds solutions in a radical revaluation of Christianity, furnishing ecological politics with a language of mercy and forgiveness that draws from Christian traditions without bringing along their baggage. They call for a global environmental movement that fuses ecology and mysticism and puts race and gender front and center. This nonviolent resistance can stage an all-out assault on the ultimate Satanic mill: the concept of master and slave, manifesting today in white supremacy, patriarchy, and environmental destruction. Passionate, erudite, and playful, Hell takes readers on a full-color journey into the contemporary underworld—and offers a surprising vision of salvation.

About Timothy Morton:
Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University and director of the Cool America Foundation. They are the author of more than twenty books, including Hyperobjects, Dark Ecology, and Ecology Without Nature. Morton has collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Susan Kucera, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, and Olafur Eliasson. Read Timothy's Guardian profile here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/15/timothy-morton-anthropocene-philosopher and their New Yorker profile here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/timothy-mortons-hyper-pandemic

Many thanks to Joe Hedinger, Henry Layte and Sarah Noell for their support and enthusiasm.