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A time for grieving, a time for analysis

Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 17, 2015 | 1 Comment »

Sometimes discussions in social media feel like the internal conversations of a person with severe multiple-personality disorder trying hard to give equal voice, or at least free rein, to their many voices. And I find I can agree with all or most of those voices; and at the same time disagree. In a facebook debate […]

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Global disorder, the left, & a new democracy

Posted in Cultural politics, Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , on November 1, 2015 | 1 Comment »

The following is something I wrote a while back that I have not had a chance to do anything with. I’m sharing it here simply because it will otherwise languish. It is a reflection on the political left and its failings in a changing global situation, a situation marked by inequality on a global scale, by increasing, […]

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Cultural policy in the 21st century

Posted in Cultural politics, Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , , on January 15, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

A few quick reflections on the Charlie Hebdo affair… 1. In the age of social media, we are all producers of images and meanings. The difference is only a matter of degree. 2.  In a globalized world, those who traffic in media ought to have some knowledge of the cultural and ethical implications of their trafficking. 3. […]

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A cultural cold war wind

Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 20, 2014 | 2 Comments »

I predicted back in 2010 that globalizing and technological trends would lead disparate religious traditions to find common ground on socially divisive issues like abortion and gay rights. Just as environmentalism, feminism, and indigenous rights were partnering various more liberal church groups with environmental and social justice organizations, contributing to the development of an “eco-egalitarian” global […]

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Thinking through media ecologies

Posted in Cultural politics, tagged , , , , , , , on February 4, 2013 | 1 Comment »

On e²mc we’re thinking through the various meanings of “media ecology.” The first, chronologically, is the medium theory of Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, and others — sometimes called the Toronto School of communication theory. Neil Postman’s “New York school” can be considered a more critical and pessimistic adjunct to this tradition. As a […]

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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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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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Lessig on the ecology of culture

Posted in Academe, Cultural politics, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , on April 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Thanks to Mediacology for sharing this presentation on “Green Culture” by Lawrence Lessig from the recent Green Festival in Seattle. Lessig is the guru of the creative commons movement, and his talk, on what he calls “cultural environmentalism,” is really on media ecology, i.e. the “ecology” of cultural production and creativity, and especially on the […]

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Green cultural studies

Posted in Academe, Cultural politics, Eco-culture, Eco-theory, tagged , , on February 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »

“Cultural studies” refers to the study of cultural objects, meanings, and processes, and their production and use in contemporary society. It is an interdisciplinary field with a twin commitment to intellectual rigor and social relevance. While the “rigor” piece sometimes means “objectivity,” often it involves a questioning of the assumption that objectivity and subjectivity can […]

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