119 Quotes by Timothy Morton

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    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.

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    Before there was Bjork, there was Prince. That's a very simple encapsulation of my personal pop life.

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    Beauty doesn't have to be in accord with prefabricated concepts of 'pretty.'

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    I find it beyond stunning that there is a school of thought or two out there that swears we are into solids and that solids are bad and liquids are good.

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    'Do not touch ontologically' doesn't mean 'are separated by empirically measurable hard edges.'

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    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.

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    OOO objects have all the abjection added back in. They don't behave like normalized patriarchal subjects at all.

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    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.

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    In many cases, contemporary materialisms map uncannily well onto Pre-Socratic ideas such that instead of Anaximander, we have the physicist David Bohm and his idea of an underlying 'implicate order' that transcends time and space.

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