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" 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. "

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

" Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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" The Severing is a catastrophe: an event that does not take place 'at' a certain 'point' in linear time, but a wave that ripples out in many dimensions, and in whose wake we are caught. "

" I'm the absolute worst at getting jobs, ever. I had 100 rejections before I landed one. I kept all the letters in a folder until I realized I could just chuck them away. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

" Am I simply a vehicle for numerous bacteria that inhabit my microbiome? Or are they hosting me? "

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" 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. "