Humans can no longer ignore nonhumans: they end up haunting the words we use and interrupting everyday talk.

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• Timothy Morton:

  The trouble with ecological invocations of Nature is that they're like calling for a medieval tool,

• Timothy Morton:

  Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on envi

• Timothy Morton:

  Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it's really not a very good defens

• Timothy Morton:

  Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remai

• Timothy Morton:

  I'm not unhappy with the idea of appealing to people's self-interest if that's what makes them unde

• Timothy Morton:

  Trivially speaking, ecological awareness means realising that beings are interconnected in some way

• Timothy Morton:

  Symbiosis can fail in various different ways: if there's too much stomach bacteria in my stomach, I

• Timothy Morton:

  We like to think, in our anthropocentric way, that irony means that you transcended something, but

• Timothy Morton:

  Since when did scientific evidence become a reason to shy away from ecological action just because

• Timothy Morton:

  Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes.