Timothy Morton

Psychologism holds that logical assertions are percolations of brains. Thus logic is a set of rules for how healthy brains operate. Aside…

— Timothy Morton

'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.

— Timothy Morton

It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney.

— Timothy Morton

A weird thing is a strange loop, what some of us call 'an object.' Thus it is looked down on by the…

— Timothy Morton

After a lifetime of listening to every Floyd album pretty much all the time - they're etched - 'Animals' is the one…

— Timothy Morton

“Wholes subscend their parts, which means that parts are not just mechanical components of wholes, and that there can be genuine surprise…

— Timothy Morton

Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on…

— Timothy Morton

Always say less than you think you need. Inject some space into the conversation.

— Timothy Morton

In the end, a lifeform is always a hybrid, a being endowed with some X-power such as being able to breathe for…

— Timothy Morton

“I call this double truth of a thing its fragility, the inner fragility of a thing is why a thing can exist…

— Timothy Morton

“Solidarity requires having something in common. But having something in common is exactly what culturalism sees as essentialism, and thus as reactionary…

— Timothy Morton

Spending some money on the you who is going to get a job is essential.

— Timothy Morton

I try to have little or no alcohol when I go to a big conference. Sorry to be a party pooper, but…

— Timothy Morton

I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights…

— Timothy Morton

I'm the absolute worst at getting jobs, ever. I had 100 rejections before I landed one. I kept all the letters in…

— Timothy Morton

If you're applying for jobs, get a suit now, whether or not you get an interview. Spend as much as you can…

— Timothy Morton

There is no essence, but there is a flux that is more real than any instance of the flux, such as a…

— Timothy Morton

A job letter, an interview - even a writing sample - have far less to do with intellect and far more to…

— Timothy Morton

“Correlationism is like a mixing desk in a music recording studio. It has two faders: the correlator and the correlatee.”

— Timothy Morton

I love David Bohm. I started to get into speculative realism because I started reading his work.

— Timothy Morton

In many cases, contemporary materialisms map uncannily well onto Pre-Socratic ideas such that instead of Anaximander, we have the physicist David Bohm…

— Timothy Morton

It truly seems to me that there is some kind of shift happening towards ecological awareness - not just in terms of…

— Timothy Morton

Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality.

— Timothy Morton

Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it's really not a very good defense - rather like resisting a…

— Timothy Morton

I always knew Andy Hageman would publish incredible eco stuff.

— Timothy Morton