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The task he’d hoped to finish was now looking even more stubbornly intractable than when he’d begun, and if he didn’t get home before eleven he’d have no chance to do anything but fall into bed. He needed to spend an hour with a book, a game, or a TV show, just to lay down a clear memory that separated each day from the next,
Sleep and the Soul
Greg Egan
The effect of training people’s attention on matters of discourse and representation is to avoid addressing what is principally at issue, which are material facts. The material facts in this case are: money, land, weapons, and over 37,000 dead Palestinians.
Acts of Language | Isabella Hammad | the New York Review of Books
Isabella Hammad
We can let elephants be hungry when they look hungry, but we have trouble allowing that they are happy when they look happy. That, for some reason, would be anthropomorphic,
All Art Is Ecological
Timothy B. Morton
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