Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, USA. He is the author of 16 books, including Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018) and Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), and 200 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. Blog: www.ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com. Twitter: @the_eco_thought