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Archive for September, 2011

Wall Street occupation

Posted in Media ecology, tagged , , on September 26, 2011 | 6 Comments »

Why are the Wall Street protests not getting the media coverage similar events in other countries, or in Tea Party country, get? (Keith Olbermann asks this, below.)  Discuss. More here and here.

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The concept-image

Posted in Visual culture on September 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I love gex‘s simple, elegant, and beautiful graphic depictions of philosophical ideas.

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Democracy of Objects

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , on September 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Levi Bryant’s The Democracy of Objects is finally available and readable on-line, courtesy of a wonderfully innovative relationship between Open Humanities Press and the University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The book is part of OHP’s New Metaphysics Series, edited by Graham Harman and Bruno Latour. As regular readers know, Levi has been a […]

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Political Ecology position

Posted in Academe, tagged , , on September 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

We’re been given the green light to announce the following tenure-track position in Environmental Studies and Geography. I’m chairing the Search Committee. Please pass it on to anyone you think will be interested. Review of applications will begin November 15.  The Department of Geography and the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Vermont invite […]

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Good news, bad news…

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, tagged , , , on September 8, 2011 | 5 Comments »

As I think about our Environmental Studies curriculum (I’m Acting Director this semester) and start to think about my Nature and Culture course (which I’ll be teaching in January), I come around to the question of how to conceptualize the fraught relationship between humans and everything else. The Nature and Culture course offers tools for […]

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Shaviro responds

Posted in Cinema, Cultural politics, Media ecology, Politics, Visual culture, tagged , on September 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Steven Shaviro has posted his response to my and three other “curators’ notes” on his Post-Cinematic Affect. The twists and turns of the discussions that have followed each of the daily commentaries have been fascinating. Somehow we’ve gone from a discussion of recent cinema to theorizing about affect and the limitations of recent affect theory […]

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