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" We like to think, in our anthropocentric way, that irony means that you transcended something, but actually, what it means is that you've realised that you're stuck in something, and you have this kind of uncanny awareness of that, and there's not much you can do about that feeling of stuckness. "

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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. "

Timothy Morton

Consciousness

Aesthetic

Arguing

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm not unhappy with the idea of appealing to people's self-interest if that's what makes them understand something about the non-human world. "

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

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

Timothy Morton

Ignore

Talk

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

" We're all human beings, in the end, despite our differences. "

" The trouble with ecological invocations of Nature is that they're like calling for a medieval tool, perhaps a portcullis or an arrow slit, to fix a modern problem. "

Timothy Morton

Fix

Problem

" An environment is precisely something one is unable to point to yet is strangely there nonetheless. "

" 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. "

Timothy Morton

Tiger

Milk

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I so totally refuse to 'make an effort to understand' the people who have become vectors for a fascist spectacular politics. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Timothy Morton

Back

Behave

" 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 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. "

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

Timothy Morton

Hosting

Vehicle

" 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 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. "

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

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

" When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it's called a tragedy. When you see a lot of people doing it on stage, it's called 'Fawlty Towers.' "

" 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. "