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

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The waste products in Earth's crust are also the human in this expanded, spectral sense. One's garbage doesn't go 'away' - it just goes somewhere else.

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When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement.

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Am I simply a vehicle for numerous bacteria that inhabit my microbiome? Or are they hosting me?

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I like being irritating.

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

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Our ecological emergency demands proactive choices, not reactive sideswipes.

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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.

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Job applications are an aesthetic event. They are performance art. They are not about proving you are smart - well, maybe your writing sample does that, but even then, the main point is to get an interview.

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Unfortunately, there are some ecological phenomenological chemicals within consumerism.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 19th, 1968

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