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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Timothy Morton

Brain

Logic

Rules

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Timothy Morton

You

Imagine

" Always say less than you think you need. Inject some space into the conversation. "

" 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. "

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

Timothy Morton

Ignore

Talk

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

" 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 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

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" In my experience, academia is a World War 1 kind of a domain, and I do my best to avoid all that trench warfare. "

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