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" You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement. "
Timothy Morton
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" 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. "
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" I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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! "
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" Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long. "
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" Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy. "
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" Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality. "
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" Inevitably, ecological awareness has this kind of '70s flavour to it. "
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" I so totally refuse to 'make an effort to understand' the people who have become vectors for a fascist spectacular politics. "
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" Since when did scientific evidence become a reason to shy away from ecological action just because it wasn't popular? "
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" I used to keep a folder with all my rejection letters in it - a few years into having a job, I burned it. "
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" Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism. "
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" I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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" Beauty doesn't have to be in accord with prefabricated concepts of 'pretty.' "
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