Quotes from Timothy Morton

It truly seems to me that there is some kind of shift happening towards ecological awareness - not just in terms of PR for the science.

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

American voting districts are, across a lot of the country, deeply messed up by having been gerrymandered by right-wing politicians.

I've managed to persuade Yoko Ono to put some of her work in my Penguin book!

You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement.

Fear of nothingness is fear of a certain physicality, a physicality whose phenomena I cannot predictably demarcate from its reality in advance.

If you've read 'Dark Ecology,' you'll know there's a whole thing about cats in it, more than once.

When you make or study art, you are not exploring some kind of candy on the surface of a machine. You are making or studying causality.

The waste products in Earth's crust are also the human in this expanded, spectral sense. One's garbage doesn't go 'away' - it just goes somewhere else.

Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever?

Beauty doesn't have to be in accord with prefabricated concepts of 'pretty.'

One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things.

I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine.

I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality.

A weird thing is a strange loop, what some of us call 'an object.' Thus it is looked down on by the constructivist spokespeople of anti-art, which is also an anti-products movement - the dominant mode of high art since the inception of the Anthropocene.

Being seen means that your being is held by the other person without comment, without praise or blame or indifference - just with some kind of open care.

Nothingness is not nothing at all, so it is physical, but not in the sense of constant presence. Nothingness is disturbing. It is there in a mind-independent sense; it is part of what is given.

Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.

If you're applying for jobs, get a suit now, whether or not you get an interview. Spend as much as you can on it without breaking the bank. It will do you some good.

I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty.

Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.

You don't eat a painting of an apple; you don't find it morally good. Instead, it tells you something strange about apples in themselves.

The Severing is a catastrophe: an event that does not take place 'at' a certain 'point' in linear time, but a wave that ripples out in many dimensions, and in whose wake we are caught.

I always knew Andy Hageman would publish incredible eco stuff.