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Under Western Skies CFP

Posted in Academe on September 18, 2013 | 1 Comment »

Under Western Skies: Intersections of Environments, Technologies, and Communities September 9 – 13, 2014 Mount Royal University Calgary, AB CANADA Under Western Skies is a biennial, interdisciplinary conference on the environment. The third conference welcomes academics from across the disciplines as well as members of artistic and activist communities, non- and for-profit organizations, government, labour, and […]

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Mosaïcultures

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , , , on September 16, 2013 | 2 Comments »

Some pictures from the Mosaïcultures international exhibition of horticultural arts at Montreal’s Botanical Gardens. The exhibition continues until September 29. Lise Cormier’s Mother Earth

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“14 billion years” (a pet peeve)

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , on September 13, 2013 | 7 Comments »

When people say “the universe began 14 billion years ago,” do they realize that this is not true in the slightest? It’s not true not because they aren’t measuring things accurately. Rather, it’s not true because the standards of measurement cannot have possibly remained unchanged over such a time period. To put it crudely, this […]

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EMI online course

Posted in Cinema, tagged , , on September 11, 2013 | 1 Comment »

Cross-posting from e2mc: I’ve begun teaching a course on film and ecology and using my book Ecologies of the Moving Image as the main text. Since the topic is related to the theme of this blog, and since I’ll be creating reading guides and posting links to film clips and related materials for my students, […]

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Digital environmental humanities

Posted in Academe, Uncategorized, tagged , on September 8, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

It’s the second day of the Digital Environmental Humanities Workshop at McGill University. Yesterday was devoted to the environmental humanities, today to the digital. One of the main goals is to bring the two together in new and productive ways. Many exciting developments… Geoff Rockwell has been posting his notes from the conference. His list […]

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