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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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" Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes. "

" I'm the absolute worst at getting jobs, ever. I had 100 rejections before I landed one. I kept all the letters in a folder until I realized I could just chuck them away. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The belief that 'animals' are superior or inferior to humans because they live in an eternal now is untrue, because no being lives in a now. "

" I like being irritating. "

" We're all human beings, in the end, despite our differences. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" An environment is precisely something one is unable to point to yet is strangely there nonetheless. "

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

" Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long. "

" 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. "

" Since when did scientific evidence become a reason to shy away from ecological action just because it wasn't popular? "

" Psychologism holds that logical assertions are percolations of brains. Thus logic is a set of rules for how healthy brains operate. Aside from the infinite regress of a brain determining whether a brain is healthy, we have the infinite regress of the idea 'All concepts are brain percolations' being itself a brain percolation, on its own terms. "

" 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. "

" One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things. "

" Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy. "

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

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

" I love folding laundry. "

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

" Anyone who has trouble imagining causality as magical and uncanny need only consider the existence of children. "