Her music, he told her, had been “a very deep influence on my way of thinking and life in general”. It turned out the philosopher, Timothy Morton, was a fan of Björk. She asked him to help define the nature of her art – “not only to define it for me, but also for all my friends, and a generation actually.” “i wanted to write this letter for a long time.” She was trying to give a name to her own singular genre, to label her work for posterity before the critics did. “hi timothy,” her first message to him began. A few years ago, Björk began corresponding with a philosopher whose books she admired.