30DoS 2020 - Day 23

MindMeister

MindMeister is a free mind mapping tool. It offers visual tools for developing and sharing ideas. You can share your mind maps with as many colleagues as you want. You can also collaborate with them in real-time, create presentations, and manage your project. MindMeister also offers storage space to save your mind maps and organise them into folders. It is quick to use and it offers loads of features to mind mapping.

Link to website: https://www.mindmeister.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DqEoM5fKJg

Zotero

Zotero is an open-source reference assistant. It is free to use and enables you to collect, share, cite and organise research. Zotero is a sofware that automatically senses research from around the web. You can add tags and save your searches for later use. It supportst over 9,000 citation styles so should have you covered! If you just need to quickly compile a bibliography in any style, use ZoteroBib.

Link to website: https://www.zotero.org/, https://zbib.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqFiCj1XV-E

Tim Morton

Morton's work explores the intersection of object-oriented ontology and ecological studies. One of Morton's compelling terms that he developed in The Ecological Thought is 'hyperobjects'. He uses the term to describe objects that are so massively distributed in time and space that they transcend spatiotemporal specificity. Examples of hyperobejcts are global warming, styrofoam, and radioactive plutonium. Hyperobjects, Morton argues, become visible only in ecological crisis. Morton’s recent book Being Ecological in an approachable but brilliantly written book draws on Kant and Heidegger to help us understand living in an age of mass extinction caused by global warming. This is an interesting read even for those who might not consider them ‘ecological’ because they might already be unknowingly ecological.

Blog: http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/

Morton, Tim (2013). Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World. University of Minnesota Press.

Morton, Tim (2017). Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People. London: Verso Books.

Morton, Tim (2018). Being Ecological. London: Pelican Books.