Timothy Morton Quotes

• Putting something called Nature on a pedestal and admiring it from afar does for the environment what patriarchy does for the figure of Woman. It is paradoxical act of sadistic admiration.

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  Doe   Pedestal   Afar  

  Timothy Morton (2007). “Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred years of seeing humans at the center of existence, and now the objects take revenge, terrifyingly huge, ancient, long-lived, threateningly minute, invading every cell in our body.

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  Revenge   Cells   Years  

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• The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes 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." The ecological thought "...is a vast, sprawling mesh of interconnection without a definite center or edge. It is radical intimacy, coexistence with other beings, sentient and otherwise.

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  Our World   Earth   Faces  

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• The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.

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  Talking   Assumption   Derrida  

  Timothy Morton (2012). “The Ecological Thought”, p.139, Harvard University Press

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