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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. "

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

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

" A job letter, an interview - even a writing sample - have far less to do with intellect and far more to do with aesthetics than you think. "

" Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it's really not a very good defense - rather like resisting a steamroller with a Christmas tree ornament. "

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

" 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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" I like being irritating. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever? "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" An artist attunes to what things are, which means sort of listening to the future, which is just how things are - I think time is a sort of liquid that pours out of hatpins, underground trains, salt crystals. So a work of art is also listening to itself, because what it is never quite coincides with how it appears, too. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril. "

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

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