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" 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. "

Timothy Morton

Interconnected

Awareness

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You

Imagine

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

Timothy Morton

Ignore

Talk

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

" 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. "

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

Timothy Morton

Back

Behave

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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. "