Quotes from Timothy Morton

I so totally refuse to 'make an effort to understand' the people who have become vectors for a fascist spectacular politics.

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

An artist attunes to what things are, which means sort of listening to the future, which is just how things are - I think time is a sort of liquid that pours out of hatpins, underground trains, salt crystals. So a work of art is also listening to itself, because what it is never quite coincides with how it appears, too.

In many cases, contemporary materialisms map uncannily well onto Pre-Socratic ideas such that instead of Anaximander, we have the physicist David Bohm and his idea of an underlying 'implicate order' that transcends time and space.

An adjective, such as 'flimsy,' describes someone's access to a thing, such as 'argument.' But that's just that someone's access. It may be accurate. But it's theirs nevertheless.

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 level.

Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism.

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.

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

The noises Russia makes on the world stage are deeply misogynist, homophobic and racist.

Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long.

The belief that 'animals' are superior or inferior to humans because they live in an eternal now is untrue, because no being lives in a now.

Where fire really burns and the light itself burns your eyes, where songs are the most beautiful songs you have ever heard, and emotions passed over in daily life take on a horrifying, uncanny hue

la «forma» del pensamiento ecológico es al menos tan importante como su «contenido».

Several thousand years from now, nothing about you as an individual will matter. But what you did will have huge consequences. This is the paradox of the ecological age. And it is why action to change global warming must be massive and collective.

Cuanto más sabes acerca de algo, tanto más extraño se vuelve.

It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake at a time at which the urge to collapse into the fetal position is high.

Symbiosis can fail in various different ways: if there's too much stomach bacteria in my stomach, I might have some problems. If there's too little, I might have some problems. There's a sort of dynamic system there.

Am I simply a vehicle for numerous bacteria that inhabit my microbiome? Or are they hosting me?

We like to think, in our anthropocentric way, that irony means that you transcended something, but actually, what it means is that you've realised that you're stuck in something, and you have this kind of uncanny awareness of that, and there's not much you can do about that feeling of stuckness.

I find it beyond stunning that there is a school of thought or two out there that swears we are into solids and that solids are bad and liquids are good.

OOO objects have all the abjection added back in. They don't behave like normalized patriarchal subjects at all.

It's easier to be the art school band than to be the Beatles.