Jason

“I relish the etymology of our word thing – that sturdy term of designation, that robust everyday indicator of the empirical – whereby in Old English thynge does not only designate a material object, but can also denote ‘a narrative not fully known’, or indicate ‘the unknowability of larger chains of events’.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks

“A slow capillary creep of knowledge has occurred on Lewis, up out of landscape’s details and into language’s.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks

“To the culture of the early Renaissance, the demon presents a limit to the empiricism of the unknown, something that can only be verified through contradictions – an absent manifestation, an unnatural creature, a demonic malady.”
― Eugene Thacker, In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy

“The best way to stop girls achieving anything is to force them to achieve everything.”
― Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution