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" I can get quite well known, and then I can unleash this kind of anarchist-hippie thing that I've been holding like a very precious liquid, carefully, without spilling any, for years and years and years. And now I'm going to pour it everywhere. "

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" Job applications are an aesthetic event. They are performance art. They are not about proving you are smart - well, maybe your writing sample does that, but even then, the main point is to get an interview. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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You

Imagine

" 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 love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work. "

" 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

" 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. "

" Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler? "

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

" 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. "

" Applying for a job after finishing a Ph.D is about turning yourself inside out. You've been involved in the most introverted process you've ever done, and now you have to show yourself to the world at large. "

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

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Cats

You

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

" 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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Problem

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Humans can no longer ignore nonhumans: they end up haunting the words we use and interrupting everyday talk. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty. "

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

" 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. "

" Inevitably, ecological awareness has this kind of '70s flavour to it. "