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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights where birds nested and sang in the dead of night, because for them, it was day. "

" 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. "

" Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Before there was Bjork, there was Prince. That's a very simple encapsulation of my personal pop life. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" In the U.K. - correct me if I'm wrong - there is a legal definition of 'not being in possession of yourself' aka 'not being a person.' That's the fun thing: someone such as a lawyer needs to define, using some empirical signal, something supposedly transcendental like 'person,' something lawyers argue and argue about regarding, say, chimps in zoos. "