119 Quotes by Timothy Morton

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.

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

In the end, a lifeform is always a hybrid, a being endowed with some X-power such as being able to breathe for a few seconds out of water. That's how evolution works. Spectrally. We are all mermaids.

I always knew Andy Hageman would publish incredible eco stuff.

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.

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.

Ecological thought rejects consumerism at its peril.

Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler?

I like being irritating.