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" The noises Russia makes on the world stage are deeply misogynist, homophobic and racist. "

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

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism. "

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

" Bohm's 'ontological interpretation' was so called because of the bad rap the word 'ontology' has had in our correlationist age. As a bit of a put-down. "

" I love folding laundry. "

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

" If you have suffered from trauma, one of the most healing things that can happen to you is being seen. Being seen doesn't have to mean that someone actually lays their eyes on you, although that certainly helps. "

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

" When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement. "

" 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. "

" The present is haunted by the X-present. I call this manifold of present and X-present 'nowness': a shifting, haunted region like evaporating mist; a region can't be tied to a specific timescale. "

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

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

" 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. "