119 Quotes by Timothy Morton

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.

There is no essence, but there is a flux that is more real than any instance of the flux, such as a milk bottle or a tiger.

Humans can no longer ignore nonhumans: they end up haunting the words we use and interrupting everyday talk.

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

Psychologism holds that logical assertions are percolations of brains. Thus logic is a set of rules for how healthy brains operate. Aside from the infinite regress of a brain determining whether a brain is healthy, we have the infinite regress of the idea 'All concepts are brain percolations' being itself a brain percolation, on its own terms.

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.

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.

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

Kant described beauty as a feeling of ungraspability: this is why the beauty experience is beyond concept.