English - Philosopher | June 19, 1968 -
I love folding laundry.
Timothy Morton
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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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Since appearance can't be peeled decisively from the reality of a thing, attunement is a living, dynamic relation with another being.
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'Nowness' is a dynamic relation between the past and the future.
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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.
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I've managed to persuade Yoko Ono to put some of her work in my Penguin book!
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We're all human beings, in the end, despite our differences.
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After a lifetime of listening to every Floyd album pretty much all the time - they're etched - 'Animals' is the one I can listen to again and again.
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I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights where birds nested and sang in the dead of night, because for them, it was day.
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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.
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Job applications are an aesthetic event. They are performance art. They are not about proving you are smart - well, maybe your writing sample does that, but even then, the main point is to get an interview.
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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.
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