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

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

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

" I find it beyond stunning that there is a school of thought or two out there that swears we are into solids and that solids are bad and liquids are good. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care. "

" I like being irritating. "

" A job letter, an interview - even a writing sample - have far less to do with intellect and far more to do with aesthetics than you think. "

" 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. "

" In the end, a lifeform is always a hybrid, a being endowed with some X-power such as being able to breathe for a few seconds out of water. That's how evolution works. Spectrally. We are all mermaids. "

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

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

" Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I love folding laundry. "

" We intellectuals are not stupid: we know the phenomenology of guilt is a bad photocopy of the phenomenology of thought, so it's much cheaper to press that button. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "