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“When you see evil as a thing apart from yourself "over there," you can fly a plane into it or destroy it with a powerful bomb. You can justify murder. Evil is the gaze that sees evil as a thing apart from me.”

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Book:Being Ecological

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Being Ecological

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Timothy Morton is a prominent scholar in the fields of contemporary cultural theory, ecological criticism, and literary criticism. His research spans a wide range of areas including animal rights, ecological philosophy, internet culture, and posthumanism. more

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