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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine. "

" 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. "

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

" In the U.K. - correct me if I'm wrong - there is a legal definition of 'not being in possession of yourself' aka 'not being a person.' That's the fun thing: someone such as a lawyer needs to define, using some empirical signal, something supposedly transcendental like 'person,' something lawyers argue and argue about regarding, say, chimps in zoos. "

" 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. "

" An adjective, such as 'flimsy,' describes someone's access to a thing, such as 'argument.' But that's just that someone's access. It may be accurate. But it's theirs nevertheless. "

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

" Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching. "

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" Somewhat selfishly, perhaps, I like to think that the best people sometimes take a few goes to get a job. "

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