Today is World Listening Day, a global event held annually to Celebrate the listening practices of the world and the ecology of its acoustic environments; Raise awareness about the growing number of individual and group efforts that creatively explore Acoustic Ecology based on the pioneering efforts of the World Soundscape Project, World Forum for Acoustic […]
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World Listening Day
Posted in EcoCulture, SoundScape, tagged acoustic ecology, ecomusicology, global hum, soundscape, soundscape ecology, World Listening Day on July 18, 2016 | 3 Comments »
Assessing Murray Bookchin’s legacy
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged Bookchin, Damian White, eco-anarchism, Janet Biehl, Kurdish revolutionary movement, libertarian municipalism, Murray Bookchin, Rojava on July 12, 2016 | 5 Comments »
Damian White has posted an excellent review of Janet Biehl’s book Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin at the Jacobin blog. Bookchin’s legacy has undergone something of a revival of late thanks to the efforts of Kurdish eco-socialist communitarians in Rojava.
The I=PAT of mass murder, and its antithesis — joy
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged anti-liberalism, Bill Chaloupka, climate justice, Dugin, fundamentalism, global solidarity movement, green left, I=PAT, LGBTQ, liberalism, movement of movements, Naomi Klein, Omar Mateen, Orlando shootings, war and peace on June 15, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Just as I=PAT serves as a handy, if problematic, formula for thinking about the causes of environmental impact, so I think there is a similar formula underlying tragedies like the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub. It goes something like this: Hate + Technology + Distress = Carnage/Chaos
State of the Eco-Humanities, Take 1
Posted in Academe, Anthropocene, EcoCulture, tagged academic initiatives, conferences, eco-arts, eco-humanities, engaged scholarship, environmental humanities on June 8, 2016 | 4 Comments »
This post is the first of a series of reflections on the state of the Environmental Humanities, or Eco-Humanities, and of where this interdisciplinary field might be headed. A note on terminology: The term “Environmental Humanities” has caught on in ways that “Eco-Humanities” and other variations have not, but the debate between them has hardly occurred, […]
A case for a non-mammalian food ethic
Posted in EcoCulture, tagged diets, food ethics, freeganism, locavorism, mammalism, mammals, veganism, vegetarianism on January 12, 2016 | 7 Comments »
Vegetarianism has been part of my identity for the last 25 years (thanks to arguments like this one and this one), but I’ve been increasingly recognizing the term’s limits.
To bother (with protest), or not?
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged COP21, global climate change, Paris climate summit, protest, Srnicek and Williams on December 4, 2015 | 2 Comments »
Writing in The Independent, “Left accelerationists” Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek make the case that we need not bother protesting the Paris climate summit. There are better things to do than that. They argue, first, that the negotiators won’t change anything under pressure, and probably won’t even notice that pressure coming from the streets. (Especially […]
What’s happening?
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged Adbusters, Billion People March, climate change, Climate Games, climate justice, COP 21, Paris climate summit on November 9, 2015 | 2 Comments »
The beginning of COP 21, the UN Conference on Climate Change, is three weeks away. So what else is happening, you ask? 1) The Campaign Against Climate Change‘s Time to Act! campaign, 350.org, Reclaim Power, and various other formations are preparing actions around the world on the eve of the summit (November 28-29) and a huge demonstration in Paris […]
Cinema, ecology, & the death of carbon capitalism
Posted in EcoCulture, MediaSpace, tagged carbon capitalism, CENHS, cinema, Cultures of Energy, ecocinema studies, energy humanities on June 23, 2015 | 3 Comments »
Rice University’s Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS) has made my Cultures of Energy talk available on their YouTube channel. It’s a longer version of the material I presented at the SCMS “Post-Cinema” panel. Here’s the abstract: This paper thinks through the intersections of three developments: (1) the much debated “end of cinema” […]
Coming Thursday to news screens near you
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged Papal climate encyclical on June 16, 2015 | 1 Comment »
To have the world’s leading religious figure make a statement like this one — heavily anticipated and already leaked out in draft form — will be a game-changer. And a godsend (literally for some, figurally for most) to the climate justice community — which, after all, should be all of us.
The cosmopolitics of Herzog’s bears
Posted in EcoCulture, MediaSpace, tagged Alutiiq, animal philosophy, cosmopolitics, Finn Yarbrough, Grizzly Man, queer ecologies, shamanism, Timothy Treadwell, Werner Herzog on June 12, 2015 | 1 Comment »
One of the films that gets a lengthy treatment in my book Ecologies of the Moving Image is Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, about the death of Timothy Treadwell at the hands of a brown bear in Alaska. I characterized it there as a complex and nuanced film that provides a series of somewhat contradictory — but cognitively and […]
4 Noble Truths of Socio-Ecological Suffering
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged Anthropocene, buen vivir, carbon capitalism, climate justice, ecological sacrifice zones, environmental justice, Sydney Tar Ponds on May 1, 2015 | 7 Comments »
Some 2500 years ago, a man named Siddhartha Gotama articulated what have come to be known as the “4 Noble Truths”: the truth of dukkha, or fundamental suffering (that there is a basic unsatisfactoriness to life), the truth of its causes (that it arises from an ignorance and misperception of the nature of things, which are […]
33⅓ Environmental Studies greats (or, a canon, revisited)
Posted in Academe, EcoCulture, tagged ASLE, canon, canonism & anti-canonism, ecocriticism, environmental humanities, environmental studies, John Lane on April 9, 2015 | 9 Comments »
The following is a significantly revised version of an article I posted to the Indications blog (and etc) five and a half years ago. I was curious to see how much of it still holds (a lot, I think), so I’ve revisited it and expanded its proposed sort-of-canon, in the second part of what follows, into a list of […]
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