Artur Benchimol

“The distinction between evil and error is not always clear, and this isn’t the place to explore the distinction. What is important is that error is likely to require as much effort for rectification as evil. Redemption can follow either, for redemption is an ecological reality that must very early have become a religious notion, for whether ignorance or greed leads to overgrazing of a hillside, the result is the same. The hillside can be redeemed, probably not completely, probably not very soon, but eventually and to some degree.”
― Wes Jackson, Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson

“What does it mean to construct digital worlds while the actual world is crumbling before our eyes?”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“[c]aring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“To do nothing is to hold yourself still so that you can perceive what is actually there. As Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist who records natural soundscapes, put it: “Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy