It arrived a few days ago. Feels good to grasp in the hand: thick, solid, “capacious” (as Steven Shaviro says in one of the cover blurbs). And Tarkovsky has rarely looked as green as on the cover. But I’ve already found an indefensible oversight:
Archive for July, 2013
First after-thoughts…
Posted in Cinema, Philosophy, Visual culture, tagged Ecologies of the Moving Image on July 30, 2013 | 5 Comments »
Kochelsee
Posted in Uncategorized on July 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I’m at the Vollmar Akademie by Lake Kochel in the Bavarian Alps, just a short train ride beyond the last S-Bahn station south of Munich, for “Studying the Environment – Working Across Disciplines.” The Rachel Carson Center has got a bunch of us together here to hammer out some ideas for inter/trans/disciplinarity in environmental research.
Nice or what?
Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged Vermont, visuality, wind power on July 17, 2013 | 4 Comments »
The above is (a) beautiful, (b) ugly, (c) neither beautiful nor ugly in itself (nor anything else in particular), or (d) _________ (fill in the blank)? It’s a view (on a particularly hazy day) of the Sheffield wind power project in northeast Vermont, as seen from Crystal Lake State Park beach outside the town of […]
The conceptual machine
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged categories, Deleuze, ecosophy-G, Ontology, epistemology, Peirce, Whitehead on July 13, 2013 | 1 Comment »
I’ve always been more of an improviser than a long-range planner, but my job requires that I occasionally dabble in long-range projections of my work. Here’s one. While a number of concerns have framed my scholarship over the years — ethical, political, cultural, ecological, and theoretical concerns — the philosophical core of it has been […]
Half-Buddhist, half-Marxist
Posted in Spirit matter, tagged Buddhism, Dalai Lama, Marxism on July 2, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
For anyone who thought “socially engaged Buddhism” (a.k.a. liberation Buddhism, Buddhist socialism, et al.) was a marginal movement within the Buddhist world, Bruce Smithers’s Tricycle article “Occupy Buddhism” shows it reaches high up the (sort of) hierarchy of publicly known Buddhists… to the Dalai Lama. It’s a selective analysis (the DL is much more pragmatic […]
Preparing my Peirce Centennial proposal
Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, tagged aesthetics, ethics, logic, Peirce, Peirce Centennial Congress on July 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
It will be quite an event for Peirce scholars. My proposed paper will be on applications of Peirce to film theory, and in particular the two neo- (quasi-?) Peircian approaches that I present in Ecologies of the Moving Image. The first of these builds on Sean Cubitt’s three-part typology of the image (pixel–cut–vector, which I […]