In the U.K. - correct me if I'm wrong - there is a legal definition of 'not being in possession of yourself' aka 'not being a person.' That's the fun thing: someone such as a lawyer needs to define, using… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Psychologism holds that logical assertions are percolations of brains. Thus logic is a set of rules for how healthy brains operate. Aside from the… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
A weird thing is a strange loop, what some of us call 'an object.' Thus it is looked down on by the constructivist spokespeople… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of listening to every Floyd album pretty much all the time - they're etched - 'Animals' is the one I can… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“Wholes subscend their parts, which means that parts are not just mechanical components of wholes, and that there can be genuine surprise and novelty in the world, that a different future is always possible. It is good to regard things such as capitalism as physical beings, not simply as fictions that would disappear if we just stopped believing in them.… — Timothy Morton Copy Share
Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Always say less than you think you need. Inject some space into the conversation. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
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… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“I call this double truth of a thing its fragility, the inner fragility of a thing is why a thing can exist at all.… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“Solidarity requires having something in common. But having something in common is exactly what culturalism sees as essentialism, and thus as reactionary primitivism. How do you get there—solidarity—from here—the strong correlationism that lords over Marxist, anti-imperialist and imperialist thought domains? Perhaps having something in common is a spurious, dangerous concept? Perhaps we could reimagine solidarity without having anything in common?… — Timothy Morton Copy Share
Spending some money on the you who is going to get a job is essential. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
