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The Severing is a catastrophe: an event that does not take place 'at' a certain 'point' in linear time, but a wave that ripples out in many dimensions, and in whose wake we are caught.

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Anyone who has trouble imagining causality as magical and uncanny need only consider the existence of children.

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Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality.

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When you make or study art, you are not exploring some kind of candy on the surface of a machine. You are making or studying causality.

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One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things.

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

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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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Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues.

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Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it's really not a very good defense - rather like resisting a steamroller with a Christmas tree ornament.

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Aesthetic experiences are powerful, to be sure, and probably inescapable, but Nature will not remain effective for very long.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: June 19th, 1968

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