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" 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. "

Timothy Morton

Healing

Eyes

You

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Timothy Morton

Back

Behave

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Since appearance can't be peeled decisively from the reality of a thing, attunement is a living, dynamic relation with another being. "

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

" It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Timothy Morton

Haunted

Shifting

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Left is correctly wary of talk about nonhumans in the key of Nature and its spiritual partner, humanity. "

" I so totally refuse to 'make an effort to understand' the people who have become vectors for a fascist spectacular politics. "

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

Timothy Morton

Cats

You

" I like being irritating. "

Timothy Morton

Irritating

Being

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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. "