I’m happy to share the news that both The New Lives of Images and Terra Invicta are now available for pre-order. The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds is a theoretically and empirically rich study of images, imagination, and the digital. It’s the fourth in a tetralogy of books […]
Archive for April, 2025
Forthcoming books
Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged Andrey Kurkov, digital media, forthcoming books, image theory, imagination, Russo-Ukrainian war, Terra Invicta, The New Lives of Images, Ukraine, Ukrainian ecocriticism on April 17, 2025 | 1 Comment »
CFP: The Life-Cycle of Moving Images
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2025 | Leave a Comment »
The deadline is coming soon; please write to me if you need more time. Call for Chapter Proposals: The Life-Cycle of Moving Images: Ecological Entanglements from Conception to Consumption and Beyond We invite contributions for a forthcoming edited volume entitled The Life-Cycle of Moving Images: Ecological Entanglements from Conception to Consumption and Beyond, edited by […]
“Connect the dots. Take back the world.”
Posted in Politics, tagged Astra Taylor, far right, movement building, Naomi Klein, Politics, Trumpism on April 15, 2025 | Leave a Comment »
The horror story unfolding around us continues. A typical day (let’s say, yesterday) may include President Trump (1) again accusing Ukrainian president Zelensky of “starting” a war against Russia (after Trump’s attempted shakedown of that country for its resources, despite the fact that Ukraine gave up its nukes in exchange for security guarantees from the […]
The globality of “Hands Off!”
Posted in Uncategorized on April 6, 2025 | Leave a Comment »
The best context for thinking of yesterday’s “Hands Off!” protests, held across the United States and in cities around the world, is the one Rebecca Solnit gets at in her post of this morning on Meditations in an Emergency. It is the global context described here: “Right now Ukrainians are fighting for their freedom; Bangladeshis […]
Ecologies of the Multipolar Information Disorder
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged information disorder, multipolar information disorder, multipolarity, Stormy Weather, Visual Ecologies on April 3, 2025 | Leave a Comment »
Two recent talks of mine just became available on YouTube. They are “The New Ecologies of Images: Ecomedia Ontology in the Capitalocene,” given in January at the Visual Ecologies conference in Strasbourg, and “Ecologies of the Multipolar Information Disorder: On Recent Elections, Current Wars (and Coups), and Climate Disasters to Come,” given last month at […]