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" 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. "

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" Bohm's 'ontological interpretation' was so called because of the bad rap the word 'ontology' has had in our correlationist age. As a bit of a put-down. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The noises Russia makes on the world stage are deeply misogynist, homophobic and racist. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever? "

" I love folding laundry. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The trouble with ecological invocations of Nature is that they're like calling for a medieval tool, perhaps a portcullis or an arrow slit, to fix a modern problem. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Fear of nothingness is fear of a certain physicality, a physicality whose phenomena I cannot predictably demarcate from its reality in advance. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Am I simply a vehicle for numerous bacteria that inhabit my microbiome? Or are they hosting me? "