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" I love folding laundry. "
Timothy Morton
Love
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Folding
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement. "
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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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" We're all human beings, in the end, despite our differences. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" I love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work. "
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" Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever? "
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" If you're facing rejection right now, it's very important to realize, especially in a down market, that it's not personal. Really. Truly. The indifference of the system is also crushing. But perhaps it's better than thinking that someone was out to get you. "
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" Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler? "
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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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" 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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" Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long. "
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" Anyone who has trouble imagining causality as magical and uncanny need only consider the existence of children. "
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" 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. "
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" I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality. "
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" An artist attunes to what things are, which means sort of listening to the future, which is just how things are - I think time is a sort of liquid that pours out of hatpins, underground trains, salt crystals. So a work of art is also listening to itself, because what it is never quite coincides with how it appears, too. "
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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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty. "
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" It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney. "
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" I like being irritating. "
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