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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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" 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. "

" Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it's really not a very good defense - rather like resisting a steamroller with a Christmas tree ornament. "

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

" Psychologism holds that logical assertions are percolations of brains. Thus logic is a set of rules for how healthy brains operate. Aside from the infinite regress of a brain determining whether a brain is healthy, we have the infinite regress of the idea 'All concepts are brain percolations' being itself a brain percolation, on its own terms. "

" Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I've managed to persuade Yoko Ono to put some of her work in my Penguin book! "

" Somewhat selfishly, perhaps, I like to think that the best people sometimes take a few goes to get a job. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Always say less than you think you need. Inject some space into the conversation. "

" OOO objects have all the abjection added back in. They don't behave like normalized patriarchal subjects at all. "

" 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. "

" 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 love folding laundry. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I used to keep a folder with all my rejection letters in it - a few years into having a job, I burned it. "

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

" 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. "

" In many cases, contemporary materialisms map uncannily well onto Pre-Socratic ideas such that instead of Anaximander, we have the physicist David Bohm and his idea of an underlying 'implicate order' that transcends time and space. "

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

" An environment is precisely something one is unable to point to yet is strangely there nonetheless. "