Author: Timothy Morton

Quotes

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.

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.

- Timothy Morton

In my experience, academia is a World War 1 kind of a domain, and I do my best to avoid all that trench warfare.

In my experience, academia is a World War 1 kind of a domain, and I do my best to avoid all that trench warfare.

- Timothy Morton

If you're applying for jobs, get a suit now, whether or not you get an interview. Spend as much as you can on it without breaking the bank. It will do you some good.

If you're applying for jobs, get a suit now, whether or not you get an interview. Spend as much as you can on it without breaking the bank. It will do you some good.

- Timothy Morton

I try to have little or no alcohol when I go to a big conference. Sorry to be a party pooper, but that stuff can regress you really fast, and this is not a good place to regress.

I try to have little or no alcohol when I go to a big conference. Sorry to be a party pooper, but that stuff can regress you really fast, and this is not a good place to regress.

- Timothy Morton

Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.

Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.

- Timothy Morton

Fear of nothingness is fear of a certain physicality, a physicality whose phenomena I cannot predictably demarcate from its reality in advance.

Fear of nothingness is fear of a certain physicality, a physicality whose phenomena I cannot predictably demarcate from its reality in advance.

- Timothy Morton

I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality.

I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality.

- Timothy Morton

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