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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The waste products in Earth's crust are also the human in this expanded, spectral sense. One's garbage doesn't go 'away' - it just goes somewhere else. "

" 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. "

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

" Being seen means that your being is held by the other person without comment, without praise or blame or indifference - just with some kind of open care. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues. "

" 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. "

" Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching. "

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

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