Sublime

In any case one can’t get rid of the unconscious that easily. Here is a sentence analogous to “We have always been terraforming, so let’s do it consciously now”: “I know I’m an addict so now I’m going to drink fully aware of that fact.” Being aware of “unconscious biases” is a contradiction in terms. And there is a still more salient ecological obs

Climate breakdown is a hyperobject in the sense that it stretches over so much space (the entire planet, all ecosystems, all peoples) and time (right now, the next decade, millennia into the future) that it thwarts attempts by us mortals to grasp its enormity. The sheer expanse of the issue explains why people struggle to talk about it. How can you

3. Omnipresence

ephemeral

for parts

Our internal metabolisms are intimately interwoven with this Earthly metabolism; one result is the replacement of every atom in our bodies every seven years or so.

Philip E. Agre

He contained within him now the very distance he had in so many subtle and not so subtle ways accused me of in the past.

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