ABSTRACT
Ecological beings such as climate and biosphere and radiation are so immense both in spatial and in temporal terms that they defeat our habitual notions of constant presence. Since 1945, when humans began to deposit a layer of radioactive materials in Earth's crust, the Anthropocene has accelerated logarithmically, and we now live within a period called The Great Acceleration. This chapter focuses on object-oriented ontology (OOO) in the philosophical view. Nothingness rules out the metaphysics of presence. Kant made sure that the factoids of presence were reduced to flimsy perilous islands floating on top of the giant ocean of reason. Dark ecology means that we realize the truth of Oedipus, the primal myth of the agricultural age the age we still live in, the age that is responsible for much global warming, the age that necessitated the industry that accounts for the rest of global warming.
