Readers may have noticed that in addition to a general hiatus on this blog, the Immanence Shadow Blog (scroll down on the right) also stopped updating several weeks ago. This is because Google Reader, in its recent redesign, eliminated its Shared Items feeds, which means that I can no longer click “Share” on items in […]
Archive for December, 2011
Shadow Blog in the shadows…
Posted in Blog stuff on December 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The joy (& loneliness) of being interdisciplinarian
Posted in Academe, Philosophy, tagged Academe, anthropology, bifurcation of nature, disciplinarity, Foucault, geography, interdisciplinarity, Morris Berman, Occupy Anthropology, philosophy, political ecology, transdisciplinarity on December 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
What makes an -ologist, -osopher, -ographer? What, for instance, makes one an anthropologist? A geographer? A philosopher? A scientist? Scene 1: As chair of a search committee looking to hire a political ecologist, a tenure-track position to be shared between a Geography department and an Environmental Studies program, I’ve been involved in intensive discussion of […]