119 Quotes by Timothy Morton

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.

My mates Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe have put together thirty one episodes of a really really nice podcast at Rice as part of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The 'Cultures of Energy Podcast' is so good!

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.

It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney.

Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.

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

Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism.

If you have suffered from trauma, one of the most healing things that can happen to you is being seen. Being seen doesn't have to mean that someone actually lays their eyes on you, although that certainly helps.

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.