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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can get quite well known, and then I can unleash this kind of anarchist-hippie thing that I've been holding like a very precious liquid, carefully, without spilling any, for years and years and years. And now I'm going to pour it everywhere.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Garbage
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Am I simply a vehicle for numerous bacteria that inhabit my microbiome? Or are they hosting me?
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who has trouble imagining causality as magical and uncanny need only consider the existence of children.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Alongside
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- Nov 07, 2020
One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things.
- Haunting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humans can no longer ignore nonhumans: they end up haunting the words we use and interrupting everyday talk.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with ecological invocations of Nature is that they're like calling for a medieval tool, perhaps a portcullis or an arrow slit, to fix a modern problem.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.
- Christmas Tree
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it's really not a very good defense - rather like resisting a steamroller with a Christmas tree ornament.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trivially speaking, ecological awareness means realising that beings are interconnected in some way, but then we have to figure out what this interconnection actually means.
- Just Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since when did scientific evidence become a reason to shy away from ecological action just because it wasn't popular?
- Emergency
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes.
- Nov 07, 2020
The noises Russia makes on the world stage are deeply misogynist, homophobic and racist.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
American voting districts are, across a lot of the country, deeply messed up by having been gerrymandered by right-wing politicians.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism.
- Ecological
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril.
- Cheaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
We intellectuals are not stupid: we know the phenomenology of guilt is a bad photocopy of the phenomenology of thought, so it's much cheaper to press that button.
- Prevent
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you watch one person on stage trying to surmount their fate only in that very action to embody it, it's called a tragedy. When you see a lot of people doing it on stage, it's called 'Fawlty Towers.'
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beyond
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kant described beauty as a feeling of ungraspability: this is why the beauty experience is beyond concept.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love folding laundry.
- Intimacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since appearance can't be peeled decisively from the reality of a thing, attunement is a living, dynamic relation with another being.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The present is haunted by the X-present. I call this manifold of present and X-present 'nowness': a shifting, haunted region like evaporating mist; a region can't be tied to a specific timescale.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.
- Penguin
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've managed to persuade Yoko Ono to put some of her work in my Penguin book!
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all human beings, in the end, despite our differences.
- Floyd
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a lifetime of listening to every Floyd album pretty much all the time - they're etched - 'Animals' is the one I can listen to again and again.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pollution is everywhere, in that ancient Greek sense of miasma: guilt experienced as abject body fluid, moral pollution defining what kinds of beings count in social space.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights where birds nested and sang in the dead of night, because for them, it was day.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the absolute worst at getting jobs, ever. I had 100 rejections before I landed one. I kept all the letters in a folder until I realized I could just chuck them away.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Job applications are an aesthetic event. They are performance art. They are not about proving you are smart - well, maybe your writing sample does that, but even then, the main point is to get an interview.
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020