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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We're all human beings, in the end, despite our differences. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Symbiosis can fail in various different ways: if there's too much stomach bacteria in my stomach, I might have some problems. If there's too little, I might have some problems. There's a sort of dynamic system there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism. "

" Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril. "

" The ideal job letter starts with a brilliant light. Then we realize that this brilliant light is actually sunlight, shafts of it, pouring through trees onto a thick bed of pine needles. Soft dusty resin floats in the sun shafts, invitingly. The smell of pine and sap rises from the forest floor. A twig snaps underfoot. "

" 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. "

Timothy Morton

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's easier to be the art school band than to be the Beatles. "

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

" American voting districts are, across a lot of the country, deeply messed up by having been gerrymandered by right-wing politicians. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I love folding laundry. "