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Religious (re)turns in the wake of global nature

Posted in Cultural politics, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , on January 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I’m reorganizing the piece I wrote for the School of Advanced Research workshop on science, nature, and religion so that part of it will fit into the introduction of the book we are producing (which I’m co-writing with the workshop organizer and chair, Catherine Tucker) and the rest will make up the book’s concluding chapter. […]

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Why the wild things?

Posted in Blog stuff on January 8, 2011 | 6 Comments »

For some inexplicable reason, my post on Spike Jonze’s movie Where the Wild Things Are keeps getting an inordinate number of hits, seemingly from casual passersby. These are people from all over the world, coming (sometimes) in droves to that one blog post, generally dropping into this blog directly from Google, and I can’t find […]

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Mondrian in Avalon

Posted in Spirit matter on January 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Tim Morton has kindly posted about the cover art Indiana University Press gave my nearly decade-old (but none the worse for wear) book, Claiming Sacred Ground, which he likes for its “polyvalent symbolism” incorporated into a Mondrianesque design. The photo in the midst of that design is one I took looking up to the top […]

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Zoosemiotics & Animal Representations

Posted in Academe on January 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The Zoosemiotics and Animal Representations conference in Tartu (the leading center for biosemiotics research) promises to be a good one. Plenary speakers include Jesper Hoffmeyer (one of the leaders of the field), ecophilosopher and musician David Rothenberg, postcolonial ecocritic Graham Huggan, and philosopher of science Colin Allen. The deadline for abstracts has passed. Two publications […]

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Environmental Humanities series update

Posted in Academe on January 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Consider the Wilfrid Laurier University Press Environmental Humanities Series for your next manuscript… The new series poster is here. The Environmental Humanities Series features research that adopts and adapts the methods of the humanities to clarify the cultural meanings associated with environmental debate. The scope of the series is broad. Film, literature, television, Web-based media, […]

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AESS Confronting Complexity conference

Posted in Academe on January 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I really should be promoting this more than I have, since my colleagues are working hard at organizing it. The theme lends itself well to the kinds of topics discussed on this blog, and the association is very interdisciplinary, spanning across the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. It would be great to […]

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Planes of immanence

Posted in Philosophy, Visual culture on January 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »

“Concepts are like multiple waves, rising and falling, but the plane of immanence is the single wave that rolls them up and unrolls them. … Concepts are the archipelago or skeletal frame, a spinal column rather than a skull, whereas the plane is the breath that suffuses the separate parts.” “it is a [the?] plane […]

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