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" 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. "
Timothy Morton
Two
Thought
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" 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. "
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" I love folding laundry. "
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" 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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" Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes. "
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" When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement. "
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" Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality. "
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" Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy. "
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" Kant described beauty as a feeling of ungraspability: this is why the beauty experience is beyond concept. "
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" 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. "
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" The waste products in Earth's crust are also the human in this expanded, spectral sense. One's garbage doesn't go 'away' - it just goes somewhere else. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I so totally refuse to 'make an effort to understand' the people who have become vectors for a fascist spectacular politics. "
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" Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues. "
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" 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. "
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