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Archive for February, 2013

Vik Muniz & his waste pickers

Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , on February 25, 2013 | 3 Comments »

Here are my introductory comments to the 2010 documentary Waste Land, delivered yesterday at the Fleming Museum in Burlington and shown in connection with the exhibition High Trash, which runs until May 19.

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Take Back the Economy interview

Posted in Politics, tagged on February 23, 2013 | 1 Comment »

Society & Space has an interview with the authors of Take Back the Economy, the final book co-written by the geographical-political theory duo J. K. Gibson-Graham, this time with co-authors and Community Economies collaborators Jenny Cameron and Stephen Healy. Gibson-Graham were Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham, authors of The End of Capitalism (As We Know […]

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Shaviro interview

Posted in Academe, Philosophy, tagged , , , on February 23, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

A few cousin blogs have already mentioned Figure/Ground’s interview with Steven Shaviro, which I recommend for those interested in Whitehead, speculative realism, media theory, and other themes explored on this blog. Shaviro has insightful things to say about Isabelle Stengers’ role in reviving an interest in Whitehead, Gilbert Simondon and his (and Whitehead’s) relevance for […]

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Publishers: from sublime to ridiculous

Posted in Academe, tagged , on February 8, 2013 | 2 Comments »

Brian Leiter is sharing the results of a survey on his blog to see which academic publishers are considered “best” in his field of philosophy. I find surveys like this useful — at least when carried out somewhat scientifically and systematically (which Leiter’s isn’t and doesn’t claim to be) — and I think these particular […]

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Thinking through media ecologies

Posted in Cultural politics, tagged , , , , , , , on February 4, 2013 | 1 Comment »

On e²mc we’re thinking through the various meanings of “media ecology.” The first, chronologically, is the medium theory of Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, and others — sometimes called the Toronto School of communication theory. Neil Postman’s “New York school” can be considered a more critical and pessimistic adjunct to this tradition. As a […]

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