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" 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. "
Timothy Morton
Listening
Animals
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" 'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care. "
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" My mates Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe have put together thirty one episodes of a really really nice podcast at Rice as part of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The 'Cultures of Energy Podcast' is so good! "
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" 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. "
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" Since appearance can't be peeled decisively from the reality of a thing, attunement is a living, dynamic relation with another being. "
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Appearance
" You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement. "
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" I always knew Andy Hageman would publish incredible eco stuff. "
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" Am I simply a vehicle for numerous bacteria that inhabit my microbiome? Or are they hosting me? "
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" When I make music, I often sound better singing as a woman, go figure, so I like to tweak the format and pitch and suchlike of my recorded voice. Sounds better. "
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Singing
" Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism. "
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" Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever? "
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Clever
Make
" I love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work. "
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Love
Started
Because
" An environment is precisely something one is unable to point to yet is strangely there nonetheless. "
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Something
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" 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. "
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" Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long. "
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Nature
Will
Aesthetic
" Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues. "
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Environmental
Nature
Progress
" 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. "
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Tiger
More
Milk
" 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. "
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Art
Future
Time
" Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy. "
Timothy Morton
Only
Known
Intimacy
" I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty. "
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Space
Discover
Evidence
" 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.' "
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You
Trying
People
" 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. "
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You
Kind
Candy
" 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. "
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Good
Interview
Now
" We're all human beings, in the end, despite our differences. "
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Human
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" It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney. "
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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. "
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Interpretation
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" Kant described beauty as a feeling of ungraspability: this is why the beauty experience is beyond concept. "
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Why
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" Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes. "
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" It's easier to be the art school band than to be the Beatles. "
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Band
Art
Than
" I like being irritating. "
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Irritating
Like
Being
" The trouble with ecological invocations of Nature is that they're like calling for a medieval tool, perhaps a portcullis or an arrow slit, to fix a modern problem. "
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Like
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Problem