Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" American voting districts are, across a lot of the country, deeply messed up by having been gerrymandered by right-wing politicians. "

" 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. "

" 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. "