The word ontology comes up a lot in the fields I work in (loosely speaking, the environmental humanities and social sciences), especially among scholars grappling with cultural differences and “decolonial” thinking. Here’s a crack at a 5-minute introduction to it for newbies. Ontology is commonly defined as something like “the philosophical study of being” or […]
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Race-shifting, gender transitioning, & other identity moves
Posted in Cultural politics, tagged cultural identity, gender politics, gender transitioning, identity, identity politics, indigenous, Indigenous sovereignty, Kim Tallbear, late capitalism, pretendianism, race-shifting, self-indigenization, transgender, Vermont on May 5, 2023 | Leave a Comment »
These thoughts, written in the aftermath of a half-day conference on race-shifting (first part viewable here) and influenced by Kim TallBear’s critique of identity, have me going out on a limb, for reasons that are likely pretty obvious. But I will persevere with them, and ask that you read them through to the end before reacting to isolated parts of the […]
The Anthropocene Unconscious
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Eco-culture, Eco-theory, tagged Anthropocene Unconscious, Fredric Jameson, geopolitical unconscious, Jameson, Jamesonian ecocriticism, Mark Bould on January 17, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
Mark Bould’s new book The Anthropocene Unconscious makes more or less the same argument as I made in my 2008 New Formations article “Stirring the Geopolitical Unconscious: Toward a Jamesonian Ecocriticism,” later expanded in the “Terra and Trauma” chapter of Ecologies of the Moving Image, but he applies it to literature rather than film. The […]
Dreamlife of the Anthropocene
Posted in Spirit matter, tagged brain, COVID-19, dream research, dreaming, dreamlife, emotional practices, mind, pandemic, psychology on November 8, 2021 | 4 Comments »
The work of environmental/climate humanists is premised on the assumption that the way we make sense of the world matters. This means that the dreams we have — Covid pandemic dreams, climate change dreams — also matter. The best artists, in turn, help shape our collective dreaming. The environmental arts and humanities aim to help […]
Through an Anthropo(s)cenic Glass, Darkly
Posted in Anthropocene, Cinema, Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged 1 Corinthians 13, Anthropocene, climate trauma, Congress of Culture, deep time, Earth's deep past, eco-trauma, geology, geophilosophy, Holocene, IPCC, Late Holocene, Lviv, Peter Brannen, Solaris, Tarkovsky, Through a Glass Darkly, Ukraine, Vermont Humanities Conference, Zizek, Конгрес культури on August 11, 2021 | 1 Comment »
My thinking about the Anthropocenic predicament continues to be informed, even haunted, by Andrei Tarkovsky’s films Solaris and Stalker, along with their literary predecessor novels by (Lviv-born) Stanisław Lem and the Strugatsky brothers, respectively. Two keynote talks I’ve been invited to give this October — one for Ukraine’s Congress of Culture, to take place in […]
The [Real]: on Rothko, music, & the Global Trends 2040 report
Posted in Anthropocene, Manifestos & auguries, Music & soundscape, tagged ambient music, Brian Eno, climate crisis, COVID-19, Global Trends 2040, hyper-events, hyperobjects, industrial ambient, Mark Rothko, Morton Feldman, National Intelligence Council, pandemic, Peter Gabriel, The Real, William Basinski on April 15, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
Fans of Mark Rothko’s color field paintings frequently comment on the spaciousness, immersiveness, and liminality of those works: the way you can stand in front of them and feel as if you are being bathed in some transcendent force that is irreducible to anything else. Great art is (supposed to be) like that: it simply […]
Civil crisis, media, & the future of hegemony
Posted in Cultural politics, Media ecology, Politics, tagged cultural hegemony, culture wars, Fairness Doctrine, George Lakoff, illiberalism, media ecologies, media ecology, media hegemony, media regimes, political polarization, Trumpism, Walter Cronkite on January 12, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a fairly straightforward narrative about media and cultural hegemony in the United States that most scholarly observers have come to largely agree on (with the usual spectrum of variations in emphasis), but that more of the public ought to be aware of. It accounts for how we got here, into this situation where media […]
Process-relational readings
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged new materialism, Ontology, epistemology, organization studies, process research, process-relational thought, relational theories, relationalism, speculative realism, sustainability science, sustainability studies, Whitehead on March 21, 2020 | 1 Comment »
A very helpful analytical review of the “relational paradigm in sustainability research, practice, and education” has just been published online by Ambio. While it’s limited to a certain selection of key publications, the article, by European sustainabililty researchers Zack Walsh, Jessica Bohme, and Christine Wamsler, covers the terrain of “relational approaches” to ontology, epistemology, and […]
Musical occasions
Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged Adrian Ivakhiv, choral musiic, composition, electroacoustic music, improvisation, minimalism, modernism, music, process-relational music, Stalagmite Under a Naked Sky, VA with Vax, Vapniaky on December 28, 2019 | 5 Comments »
Music is an occasional topic on this blog (as shown in the Soundscape category). It was my first university discipline and love (when I was an undergrad at York’s wonderfully eclectic Music Department), still figures in my scholarly work from time to time (as in my work on Cape Breton Island and the Chernobyl Zone), […]
The second ontological twist
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged Buddhism, C. S. Peirce, epistemology, Huayan Buddhism, Mind-Only Buddhism, Ontology, Peirce, process philosophy, process-relational thought, semiotics, Y, Yogacara philosophy on July 10, 2019 | 2 Comments »
I keep trying to rephrase the second piece of the “double insight” — or two ontological “twists” — around which the philosophical argument of Shadowing the Anthropocene (and Ecologies of the Moving Image) is woven. The first insight is the process-relational one, which is at the core of both A. N. Whitehead’s metaphysics and many variations […]
10 years (of Late Holocene life)
Posted in Anthropocene, Blog stuff, tagged anniversaries, Anthropocene, blog, Critical Holocene, David Bowie, immanence, Late Holocene on June 20, 2018 | 4 Comments »
(Or twice the video below.) Immanence passed its tenth anniversary last month and somehow failed to celebrate it. (The actual anniversary, May 11, marks the posting of this two-line fragment. Regular posts took another seven months to appear, or at least to take on a permanent form.) To celebrate, I recently re-did the Primer page, which collects […]
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