I’m delighted to formally announce that I have accepted an offer to take up the position of J. S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, beginning next year. (Simon Fraser recently, once again, took the top spot among comprehensive universities in Macleans’ Canadian university rankings.) The chair is named after J. S. Woodsworth (1874-1942), […]
Archive for the ‘Academe’ Category
Woodsworth Chair: Three challenges
Posted in Academe, Manifestos & auguries, tagged eco-humanities, environmental humanities, eugenics, humanities, J. S. Woodsworth, post-human, posthumanism, posthumanities, Simon Fraser University, Woodsworth Chair on November 22, 2023 | 6 Comments »
Steal this book
Posted in Academe, tagged academic capitalism, academic publishing, neoliberal education, predatory publishers, Wiley on September 28, 2022 | 1 Comment »
Wiley’s sudden withdrawal of over 1,300 textbooks from the ProQuest Academic Complete database, which many universities subscribe to, in the days before or (in my university’s case) just after the beginning of the fall semester, seems unconscionable to me. It is consistent with the predatory behavior some other academic publishers have become known for. To […]
“Then we take Berlin…”
Posted in Academe, tagged Berlin, Cinepoetics Centre for Advanced Film Studies, Fulbright, globalism, Leonard Cohen, localism, New Hampshire, personal, Robert Fripp, Vermont on July 26, 2022 | 1 Comment »
When your life takes you places. Or, on localism and the ambivalence of the green mobile intellectual… One of the paradoxes of environmental scholarship is that, for obvious reasons, many of us favor localism over globalism, community solutions over international policy crafting (though we obviously recognize the need for the latter), and living-in-place over a […]
Anthroposcendence…
Posted in Academe, Anthropocene, tagged academic meat grinder, academic publishing, Anthropocene, Anthroposcene, discourse, episteme, fast scholarship, Foucauldian archaeology of knowledge, singularity, slow scholarship, tenure on January 31, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
Keeping up with the scholarly literature on the Anthropocene, or even on the humanities-relevant Anthropocene, has become a full-time job, and no one I know is paid to do that full-time. (All of the Anthropocene literature is arguably humanities-relevant, but not to the same degree.) To give a sense of the numbers: I counted a […]
Eco-humanities seminar
Posted in Academe, Eco-theory, tagged Adrian Ivakhiv, Advanced Environmental Humanities, courses, EcoCultureLab, environmental humanities, readings, University of Vermont on January 29, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
I will be making parts of my “Advanced Environmental Humanities” course open to the EcoCultureLab community and a limited broader public. Technical details remain to be worked out, but I’d like to make our readings and discussions open, so as to include interested participants from outside the university community. The course is a graduate and […]
A day in the life…
Posted in Academe, Media ecology, tagged "Do your own research", Marc-André Argentino, QAnon, research on December 30, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
I’m working on a lengthyish post about conspiracy theory (specifically, QAnon) and the “post-truth condition,” but in the meantime I want to post a few tidbits from something I’ve been enjoying reading related to that topic. A Reddit conversation with QAnon researcher Marc-André Argentino includes some smart observations about QAnon, but also useful insights into […]
JSTOR’s open access list
Posted in Academe, tagged academic publishing, journals, JSTOR, knowledge society, open access, peer-reviewed literature, Process Studies, public scholarship, university presses on May 30, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve posted before about the coronavirus “silver lining” of the (partial) opening of access to peer-reviewed literature that some academic presses have been offering through the Covid-19 pandemic. Peer-reviewed literature is the bread and butter of scholarship, and access to it is not just a perk of being in academia, but one of the only […]
CFP: “When Corona Met Climate Change…”
Posted in Academe, Climate change, Media ecology, tagged calls, Coronavirus, Earth Day, Earth Day 2020, events, hyper-events, lockdown, pandemic politics, virtual gatherings on April 7, 2020 | 1 Comment »
Please share the following call for presenters: “When Corona Met Climate Change… What Changed?” A series of live, short (under 3 minutes), and creative responses to the intersection of coronavirus and climate change, 50 years after Earth Day and 50 years before Ecotopia Day (EarthDay+100).
Coming to whose senses? (a quiz)
Posted in Academe, tagged books, Foucault, genealogy, Morris Berman, quizzes on August 11, 2018 | 7 Comments »
The following six books all have the same title. Without looking them up, match each book’s subtitle with the author and publication details listed below. Coming to Our Senses: Affect and An Order of Things for Global Culture Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West Coming to Our Senses: […]
Welcome to the Feverish World (CFP)
Posted in Academe, Anthropocene, tagged 1968, artscience, Bruno Latour, C. P. Snow, eco-arts, EcoCulture Lab, ecopoetics, ecopolitics, Feverish World, two cultures, University of Vermont on May 25, 2018 | 6 Comments »
Please circulate widely… FEVERISH WORLD 2018-2068: ARTS & SCIENCES OF COLLECTIVE SURVIVAL A Symposium and Convergence in Burlington, Vermont, October 20-22, 2018 Fifty years after the widespread international protests of 1968 challenged institutional norms, and some sixty years after C. P. Snow lamented the gap between academia’s “two cultures,” those of the arts and the sciences, […]