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Eco-humanities seminar

Posted in Academe, Eco-theory, tagged , , , , , , 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 […]

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A day in the life…

Posted in Academe, Media ecology, tagged , , , 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 […]

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What are the humanities? (Two cultures, redux)

Posted in Academe, Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 14, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

As a humanistic scholar within an interdisciplinary school, I’m often put in a position to distinguish how the humanities differ from the social and natural sciences. There is a long tradition of distinguishing between these “two cultures,” with the most frequent point of focus, for humanists, being that they concern themselves with human meaning and […]

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JSTOR’s open access list

Posted in Academe, tagged , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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CFP: “When Corona Met Climate Change…”

Posted in Academe, Climate change, Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , , , 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).

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Pandemic politics: on disaster capitalism, socialism, and environmentalism

Posted in Academe, Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 30, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

This was originally posted over a week ago, but then taken down by request as it was being considered for publication elsewhere (but not published there). A shorter version of it appeared yesterday at VT Digger. The school I work for, the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, recently undertook a […]

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Coming to whose senses? (a quiz)

Posted in Academe, tagged , , , , 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: […]

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Welcome to the Feverish World (CFP)

Posted in Academe, Anthropocene, tagged , , , , , , , , , , 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, […]

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What’s the big deal? Or, whither universities…

Posted in Academe, Cultural politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 23, 2018 | 14 Comments »

A post-Commencement pep talk for myself (& academic friends who care to listen) It should be pretty obvious by now that predatory, extractive capitalism is not working, and that we need to move swiftly to a regenerative mixed economy grounded in a respect for living systems. The implications of that are pretty simple, but also […]

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The academic life (thoughts for the beginning of spring)

Posted in Academe on March 22, 2018 | 21 Comments »

Or, Things I love, like, dislike, and hate about it… I love that I can research, write, talk, think, and teach about things that I’m passionate about, or at least care very much about. And because that passion derives from a sense that the world needs certain kinds of engagement and that my activity can […]

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The colonization of scholarly publishing

Posted in Academe, tagged , , , , , , , on October 3, 2017 | 8 Comments »

For those following the debate over the article “The Case for Colonialism,” the following adds little new. It’s mostly a way of summarizing the issue and collecting some useful links in one place.  There’s a lesson for academia in the flare-up over the Third World Quarterly article “The Case for Colonialism” by Bruce Gilley. The […]

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The Damore-Google dust-up

Posted in Academe, Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 12, 2017 | 12 Comments »

Here I go wading into a type of debate this blog does not often venture into: the debate surrounding Google employee James Damore’s firing for his ‘Ideological Echo Chamber’ manifesto. I find this to be a complicated and interesting conversation, and I’m curious to know how my thoughts align with others.

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