“Pointed arches stretch up towards God, flooding the interior with divine light and inspiring solemn awe, what one commentator called ‘an artificial infinite’.” - Roger Luckhurst

“Monsters are cultural bodies that mark a ‘crisis of category’.” - Jeffery Jerome Cohen

“Humans exist in complex, interdependent, cross-species assemblages that drives a more subtle kind of monster.” - Roger Luckhurst

“The octopus is likely to be ‘the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien’.” - Peter Godfrey-Smith, The Octopus and the Evolution of I...

“The biological world of fungi is highly ordered, marked by open-ended cooperative assemblages, ecologies whose complexities scientists are still trying to grasp.” - Roger Luckhurst