Donna J. Haraway
- Staying with the Trouble
Sympoiesis is a simple word; it means "making-with." Nothing makes itself; nothing is really autopoietic or self-organizing... As sensual molecular curiosity and definitely as insatiable hunger, irresistible attraction toward enfolding each other is the vital motor of living and dying on earth.
Kim Stanley Robinson
- Redefining Hope
If you redefine hope as something biological, it doesn't go away just because you're feeling discouraged. You can imagine that you're hopeful at the cellular level and that it's stubborn and it doesn't go away. It's just always there, it's the understory, it's your hunger. You eat your breakfast and you've actually acted on a hope that you had to stay alive.
-A Typist
- Four Men In a Boat
Ok so there are four guys in a boat, all smokers. They have five cigarettes but no way to light them. What do they do? They throw one cigarette overboard, and the whole boat becomes a cigarette lighter.
- A Typist
- Why do I enjoy this?
This has got to be one of the weirdest sorts of online communities I've ever found, this strange typing test forum. Why do I even enjoy doing this? Is it because doing something you're good at is always sort of enjoyable, even if it's something as mundane as typing? And who are the other people on here - we only interact through these quotes or by speaking into the void as I am doing here. I am here to say I understand you!