Coffee @ The Commons: Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Humans

Timothy Morton (Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University) fuses the arts, humanities, and scientific scholarship to radically reconceptualize humankind's relationship with the natural world. Morton will lead a discussion based on human relationships with nonhuman beings, which he argues, will decide the fate of our humanity. Morton writes that being human relies on creating a network of kindness and solidarity with nonhuman beings, in the name of a broader understanding of reality that both includes and overcomes the notion of species.