"Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler?"
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Timothy Morton, a prominent philosopher and environmental thinker, has carved a niche in contemporary thought through his pioneering ideas on ecology, object-oriented ontology, and the interconnectedness of all beings. Born in 1968 in the UK, Morton's work emphasizes our relationship with the non-human world, advocating for a deeper understanding of ecological crises. His influential writings, including "Ecology without Nature" and "Dark Ecology," challenge conventional perspectives and inspire a new way of relating to the planet, solidifying his legacy as a vital voice for environmental philosophy.
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"Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching."
Timothy Morton"Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective level."
Timothy Morton"Invoking Nature always measures the distance we have yet to travel to achieve real progress on environmental issues."
Timothy Morton"In many cases, contemporary materialisms map uncannily well onto Pre-Socratic ideas such that instead of Anaximander, we have the physicist David Bohm and his idea of an underlying 'implicate order' that transcends time and space."
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"It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake at a time at which the urge to collapse into the fetal position is high."
Timothy Morton"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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