Timothy Morton: Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People

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


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.


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.


Brushing against, licking or irradiating are ask access modes as valid (or as invalid ) as thinking.