In the U.K. - correct me if I'm wrong - there is a legal definition of 'not being in possession of yourself'… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
You don't eat a painting of an apple; you don't find it morally good. Instead, it tells you something strange about apples… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
An environment is precisely something one is unable to point to yet is strangely there nonetheless. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed,… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
We like to think, in our anthropocentric way, that irony means that you transcended something, but actually, what it means is that… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
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. — 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… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
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… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Spending some money on the you who is going to get a job is essential. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
