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Timothy Morton Quotes

English - Philosopher | June 19, 1968 -

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

Future Past Over Everything Railway

Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality.

Losing Reality Fantasy Than Much

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.

Present Mist Call Like Shifting

Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes.

Choices Proactive Emergency Reactive

I like being irritating.

Being Irritating Like

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.

Space Guilt Body Pollution Moral

When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement.

Nature Tree Mountains You Look Find

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

Voting American Country Messed Up Up

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

Me Bacteria Hosting Simply Vehicle

Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.

Nature Progress Travel Environmental

If you have suffered from trauma, one of the most healing things that can happen to you is being seen. Being seen doesn't have to mean that someone actually lays their eyes on you, although that certainly helps.

Eyes Healing Someone You Trauma

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.

Nature Good Tree Capitalism Defense

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