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

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" I try to have little or no alcohol when I go to a big conference. Sorry to be a party pooper, but that stuff can regress you really fast, and this is not a good place to regress. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I always knew Andy Hageman would publish incredible eco stuff. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" OOO objects have all the abjection added back in. They don't behave like normalized patriarchal subjects at all. "

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

" I used to keep a folder with all my rejection letters in it - a few years into having a job, I burned it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being seen means that your being is held by the other person without comment, without praise or blame or indifference - just with some kind of open care. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I find it beyond stunning that there is a school of thought or two out there that swears we are into solids and that solids are bad and liquids are good. "

" I like being irritating. "

" 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.' "