Kevin Kennedy

“The art of time makes this more-than of the object felt, and it does so by activating the differential of time in the making, the difference between what was and what will be. For all actualization is in fact differentiation. The in-act is the dephasing of the process toward the coming into itself of an occasion of experience. In this dephasing, the differences in kind between the not-yet and the will-have-been are felt, but only at the edges of experience. They are felt in the moving, activating the more-than.”
― Richard Grusin, The Nonhuman Turn

“Rhetoric accomplishes its work by inducing us to shift, at least potentially, how we dwell or see ourselves dwelling in the world.”
― Thomas Rickert, Ambient Rhetoric: The Attunements of Rhetorical Being

“Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don’t want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.”
― Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files Books 7-12

“She understood now why ancient peoples turned their heroes into constellations.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll