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" A job letter, an interview - even a writing sample - have far less to do with intellect and far more to do with aesthetics than you think. "

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" Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler? "

" We intellectuals are not stupid: we know the phenomenology of guilt is a bad photocopy of the phenomenology of thought, so it's much cheaper to press that button. "

" Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism. "

" I love folding laundry. "

" An artist attunes to what things are, which means sort of listening to the future, which is just how things are - I think time is a sort of liquid that pours out of hatpins, underground trains, salt crystals. So a work of art is also listening to itself, because what it is never quite coincides with how it appears, too. "

" After a lifetime of listening to every Floyd album pretty much all the time - they're etched - 'Animals' is the one I can listen to again and again. "

" It's easier to be the art school band than to be the Beatles. "

" The Severing is a catastrophe: an event that does not take place 'at' a certain 'point' in linear time, but a wave that ripples out in many dimensions, and in whose wake we are caught. "

" Before there was Bjork, there was Prince. That's a very simple encapsulation of my personal pop life. "

" Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues. "

" If you're facing rejection right now, it's very important to realize, especially in a down market, that it's not personal. Really. Truly. The indifference of the system is also crushing. But perhaps it's better than thinking that someone was out to get you. "

" In many cases, contemporary materialisms map uncannily well onto Pre-Socratic ideas such that instead of Anaximander, we have the physicist David Bohm and his idea of an underlying 'implicate order' that transcends time and space. "

" When you make or study art, you are not exploring some kind of candy on the surface of a machine. You are making or studying causality. "

" Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective level. "

" If you've read 'Dark Ecology,' you'll know there's a whole thing about cats in it, more than once. "

" Fear of nothingness is fear of a certain physicality, a physicality whose phenomena I cannot predictably demarcate from its reality in advance. "

" Bohm's 'ontological interpretation' was so called because of the bad rap the word 'ontology' has had in our correlationist age. As a bit of a put-down. "

" Humans can no longer ignore nonhumans: they end up haunting the words we use and interrupting everyday talk. "

" I love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work. "

" There is no essence, but there is a flux that is more real than any instance of the flux, such as a milk bottle or a tiger. "

" American voting districts are, across a lot of the country, deeply messed up by having been gerrymandered by right-wing politicians. "

" I'm not unhappy with the idea of appealing to people's self-interest if that's what makes them understand something about the non-human world. "

" In the end, a lifeform is always a hybrid, a being endowed with some X-power such as being able to breathe for a few seconds out of water. That's how evolution works. Spectrally. We are all mermaids. "

" Am I simply a vehicle for numerous bacteria that inhabit my microbiome? Or are they hosting me? "

" You don't eat a painting of an apple; you don't find it morally good. Instead, it tells you something strange about apples in themselves. "

" The present is haunted by the X-present. I call this manifold of present and X-present 'nowness': a shifting, haunted region like evaporating mist; a region can't be tied to a specific timescale. "

" Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever? "

" Spending some money on the you who is going to get a job is essential. "

" I so totally refuse to 'make an effort to understand' the people who have become vectors for a fascist spectacular politics. "