119 Quotes by Timothy Morton

Personhood then is also in the mesh – it may look solid from a distance, but as we approach it we discover that it is full of holes.

For beauty to work, there must be a surface capable of receiving the wound.

A certain degree of audiovisual hallucination happens when we read poetry.

Beauty is a nonviolent experience of near death, a warning that one is fragile, like everything else in the universe.

Being a person means never being sure that you’re one.

The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy – for some, strangely or frighteningly easy – to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up.

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

Beauty is how objects end. Beauty is death.

Am I a nihilistic postmodernist or a New Ager in academig drag?