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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. "

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" We intellectuals are not stupid: we know the phenomenology of guilt is a bad photocopy of the phenomenology of thought, so it's much cheaper to press that button. "

Timothy Morton

Guilt

Thought

Stupid

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

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

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

Timothy Morton

Hosting

Vehicle

" 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. "

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

Timothy Morton

Cats

You

" If you're facing rejection right now, it's very important to realize, especially in a down market, that it's not personal. Really. Truly. The indifference of the system is also crushing. But perhaps it's better than thinking that someone was out to get you. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake at a time at which the urge to collapse into the fetal position is high. "

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

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

" Pollution is everywhere, in that ancient Greek sense of miasma: guilt experienced as abject body fluid, moral pollution defining what kinds of beings count in social space. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Timothy Morton

Haunted

Shifting

" 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

" 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. "

" Somewhat selfishly, perhaps, I like to think that the best people sometimes take a few goes to get a job. "

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

" 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. "

" I like being irritating. "

Timothy Morton

Irritating

Being

" Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler? "