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" I always knew Andy Hageman would publish incredible eco stuff. "
Timothy Morton
Stuff
Always
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" 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. "
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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. "
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Politicians
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" 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. "
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Legal
Lawyer
" 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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Reality
Dynamic
Appearance
" I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality. "
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Weird
Art
Believe
" Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril. "
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Ecological
" Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism. "
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Chemicals
Within
" Anyone who has trouble imagining causality as magical and uncanny need only consider the existence of children. "
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Children
Trouble
Only
" Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching. "
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Past
Over
Future
" Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality. "
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Losing
Much
Reality
" An environment is precisely something one is unable to point to yet is strangely there nonetheless. "
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Something
Unable
Environment
" 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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Woman
Voice
Singing
" Nothingness is not nothing at all, so it is physical, but not in the sense of constant presence. Nothingness is disturbing. It is there in a mind-independent sense; it is part of what is given. "
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Sense
Nothing
Presence
" Kant described beauty as a feeling of ungraspability: this is why the beauty experience is beyond concept. "
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Beyond
Why
Feeling
" It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney. "
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Than
Idle
Eric
" 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. "
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You
Good
Find
" 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. "
Timothy Morton
Moral
Pollution
Space
" 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. "
Timothy Morton
Lights
Night
Birds
" 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. "
Timothy Morton
Belief
Because
Animals
" 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. "
Timothy Morton
Like
Fix
Problem
" 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
Rap
Interpretation
Bad
" Trivially speaking, ecological awareness means realising that beings are interconnected in some way, but then we have to figure out what this interconnection actually means. "
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Interconnected
Awareness
Out
" I love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work. "
Timothy Morton
Love
Started
Because
" 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
" Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues. "
Timothy Morton
Environmental
Nature
Progress
" OOO objects have all the abjection added back in. They don't behave like normalized patriarchal subjects at all. "
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Back
Behave
Like
" Always say less than you think you need. Inject some space into the conversation. "
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You
Space
Need
" 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. "
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Worst
Before
Away
" I used to keep a folder with all my rejection letters in it - a few years into having a job, I burned it. "
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Used
Job
Letters
" Spending some money on the you who is going to get a job is essential. "
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Going
Job
Money