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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I love folding laundry. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril. "

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

Timothy Morton

Ignore

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. "

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

" 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. "

" It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney. "

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

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

" 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. "

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Tiger

Milk

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

Timothy Morton

Back

Behave

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like being irritating. "

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Irritating

Being

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If you're applying for jobs, get a suit now, whether or not you get an interview. Spend as much as you can on it without breaking the bank. It will do you some good. "

" 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. "