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" A weird thing is a strange loop, what some of us call 'an object.' Thus it is looked down on by the constructivist spokespeople of anti-art, which is also an anti-products movement - the dominant mode of high art since the inception of the Anthropocene. "

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" 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. "

Timothy Morton

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" Beauty doesn't have to be in accord with prefabricated concepts of 'pretty.' "

" Pollution is everywhere, in that ancient Greek sense of miasma: guilt experienced as abject body fluid, moral pollution defining what kinds of beings count in social space. "

" 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. "

" If you're applying for jobs, get a suit now, whether or not you get an interview. Spend as much as you can on it without breaking the bank. It will do you some good. "

" The Left is correctly wary of talk about nonhumans in the key of Nature and its spiritual partner, humanity. "

" Since appearance can't be peeled decisively from the reality of a thing, attunement is a living, dynamic relation with another being. "

" It truly seems to me that there is some kind of shift happening towards ecological awareness - not just in terms of PR for the science. "

" We like to think, in our anthropocentric way, that irony means that you transcended something, but actually, what it means is that you've realised that you're stuck in something, and you have this kind of uncanny awareness of that, and there's not much you can do about that feeling of stuckness. "

" I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights where birds nested and sang in the dead of night, because for them, it was day. "

" When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it's called a tragedy. When you see a lot of people doing it on stage, it's called 'Fawlty Towers.' "

" In my experience, academia is a World War 1 kind of a domain, and I do my best to avoid all that trench warfare. "

" I love folding laundry. "

" It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney. "

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

" The waste products in Earth's crust are also the human in this expanded, spectral sense. One's garbage doesn't go 'away' - it just goes somewhere else. "

Timothy Morton

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" I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty. "

" Symbiosis can fail in various different ways: if there's too much stomach bacteria in my stomach, I might have some problems. If there's too little, I might have some problems. There's a sort of dynamic system there. "

" Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality. "

" I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality. "

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

Timothy Morton

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

" Applying for a job after finishing a Ph.D is about turning yourself inside out. You've been involved in the most introverted process you've ever done, and now you have to show yourself to the world at large. "

" The noises Russia makes on the world stage are deeply misogynist, homophobic and racist. "

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

" If you have suffered from trauma, one of the most healing things that can happen to you is being seen. Being seen doesn't have to mean that someone actually lays their eyes on you, although that certainly helps. "

" Always say less than you think you need. Inject some space into the conversation. "

" Job applications are an aesthetic event. They are performance art. They are not about proving you are smart - well, maybe your writing sample does that, but even then, the main point is to get an interview. "

" Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it's really not a very good defense - rather like resisting a steamroller with a Christmas tree ornament. "

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