[[../writing/Bibliography]] Morton, Timothy. _All Art Is Ecological_. Penguin Books, 2021. Ecological awareness is awareness of unintended consequences. Some ecological politics is about trying to light everything up in a totally nonflickery way, to make sure that there are no unintended consequences. But this is impossible, because things are intrinsically mysterious. – p.16, Timothy Morton, *All Art is Ecological* ^22337d Art is important to understanding our relationship to nonhumans, to grasping an object-oriented ontological sense of our existence. Art fails in this regard when it tries to mimic the transmission of sheer quantities of data; it's not artful enough… that's the trouble with ecological data art. The aesthetic experience isn't really about data – it's about data-*ness*, the qualities we experience when we apprehend something… The aesthetic experience is about *solidarity* with what is given… There is no good reason to distinguish between nonhumans that are 'natural' and ones that are 'artificial', by which we mean made by humans. It just becomes too difficult to sustain such distinctions. Since, therefore, an artwork is itself a nonhuman being, this solidarity in the artistic realm is already solidarity with nonhumans, whether or not art is explicitly ecological. Ecologically explicit art is simply art that brings this solidarity with the nonhuman to the foreground. – p. 57-58, Timothy Morton, *All Art is Ecological* ^85b093 There is no good reason to distinguish between nonhumans that are 'natural' and ones that are 'artificial', by which we mean made by humans. It just becomes too difficult to sustain such distinctions. Since, therefore, an artwork is itself a nonhuman being, this solidarity in the artistic realm is already solidarity with nonhumans, whether or not art is explicitly ecological. Ecologically explicit art is simply art that brings this solidarity with the nonhuman to the foreground. – Timothy Morton, *All Art is Ecological*, 57-58 ^bcb947 Realizing that there are lots of different temporality formats is basically what ecological awareness is. It's equivalent to acknowledging in a deep way the existence of beings that aren't you, with whom you coexist. – p. 66, Timothy Morton, *All Art is Ecological* You have an idea that there is an inside and an outside of yourself, and perhaps this is the deepest way in which you start to think that being ecological involves some massive change. Snared in the urgency of ecological awareness and the horror of extinction and global warming, it's so incredibly difficult to miss this key point… you are already a symbiotic being entangled with other symbiotic beings. The problem with ecological awareness and action isn't that it's horribly difficult. It's that it's too easy. You are breathing air, your bacterial microbiome is humming away… You don't have to *be* ecological. Because you *are* ecological. – p. 104-105, Timothy Morton, *All Art is Ecological*