The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy...to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up." The ecological thought "...is a vast, sprawling mesh of interconnection without a definite center or edge. It is radical intimacy, coexistence with… — Timothy Morton Copy Share
One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“We can get a sense of it, to be sure, though it will upgrade our ideas of "real" and "thing" to boot.… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
We intellectuals are not stupid: we know the phenomenology of guilt is a bad photocopy of the phenomenology of thought, so it's… — 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
