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" It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake at a time at which the urge to collapse into the fetal position is high. "

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" I can get quite well known, and then I can unleash this kind of anarchist-hippie thing that I've been holding like a very precious liquid, carefully, without spilling any, for years and years and years. And now I'm going to pour it everywhere. "

Timothy Morton

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

Timothy Morton

Ignore

Talk

" 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. "

" When you make or study art, you are not exploring some kind of candy on the surface of a machine. You are making or studying causality. "

" Anyone who has trouble imagining causality as magical and uncanny need only consider the existence of children. "

" My mates Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe have put together thirty one episodes of a really really nice podcast at Rice as part of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The 'Cultures of Energy Podcast' is so good! "

" Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

Timothy Morton

Human

Garbage

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things. "

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

" 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. "

Timothy Morton

Fix

Problem

" 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. "

Timothy Morton

Tiger

Milk

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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

" Kant described beauty as a feeling of ungraspability: this is why the beauty experience is beyond concept. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like being irritating. "

Timothy Morton

Irritating

Being

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