English - Philosopher | June 19, 1968 -
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.
Timothy Morton
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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.
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The waste products in Earth's crust are also the human in this expanded, spectral sense. One's garbage doesn't go 'away' - it just goes somewhere else.
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Anyone who has trouble imagining causality as magical and uncanny need only consider the existence of children.
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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.
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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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Humans can no longer ignore nonhumans: they end up haunting the words we use and interrupting everyday talk.
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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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Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long.
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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.
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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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Symbiosis can fail in various different ways: if there's too much stomach bacteria in my stomach, I might have some problems. If there's too little, I might have some problems. There's a sort of dynamic system there.
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