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Ostrom’s Nobel, the commons, & blog flow

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , on October 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Several days of silence calls for at least a whimper of sound here… I’ve been on the road (Washington, DC, Boston, and tomorrow Montreal) and writing for crisp deadlines in amidst the travel. And I’m still uncertain as to whether it’s better to post little snippets just to keep the flow coming to your blog […]

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Ken Burns’ parks and nature’s nation

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , on October 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Before Ken Burns’ 6-part, 12-hour series on the national parks was aired, a perceptive article by the LA Times’ Scott Timberg warned that it might be greeted by “sharp knives.” Ten years in the making, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, finally came to our television screens last week, and so far no sharp knives […]

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vampyroteuthis infernalis

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture on September 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »

(Here’s the reference from the last post…) This is one of my favorite scenes from the David Attenborough-narrated Planet Earth series… The music is toned down, soft and sparse and a little eerie, some of the cinematic apparatus (at least the lights of the submersible) is displayed on camera, and we get a hint of […]

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Mars attacks Sydney!

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , on September 23, 2009 | 7 Comments »

The photos are a bit too beautiful to resist sharing. And the stories taken from the archive of the already screened: “like scenes from Mad Max,” “like waking up on Mars,” “like a nuclear winter morning”. . . White urban Australia’s dreamtime apocalypse of being taken over by the Outback, the uncanny aboriginal sacred that […]

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Derrick Jensen’s Star Wars diet lite

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , on September 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I agree with Mediacology‘s critique of Derrick Jensen’s ‘dark side’ — or at least of a certain linearity in his political vision — but I still find his Star Wars spoof pretty funny. And I think it’s good to have someone saying the things he says (like these). And his column does add some fire […]

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fairy villages, bowerbird art, & other ambiguous objects

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, Spirit matter, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , , on September 20, 2009 | 56 Comments »

One of my (largely dormant) pet projects over the years has been to document and theorize anonymous, self-decomposing artworks made in collaboration with nature and time. These works are creative engagements with environments — often simple rearrangements of physical materials (rocks, wood, found pieces of scrap metal or discarded trash, and the like) — by […]

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pleasures of the (un)sustainable

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , , , on September 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »

A propos yesterday’s post on transition culture and the Bataillian (versus Malthusian) thermodynamics of ecopolitics, the new issue of the Harvard Design Magazine, on “(Sustainability) + Pleasure,” turns out to be all over this topic. Wendy Steiner’s “The Joy of Less” introduces it well, positing a sensualism that’s quite happy with the “pleasure economy” of […]

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transition culture, ecology, & Bataille’s glorious excesses

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , on September 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Reading about the growing “transition towns” movement back to back with a read-through of Design Philosophy Papers’ latest issue on Bataille and “Inefficient Sustainability” has gotten me thinking about some of the unspoken premises that make their way into environmentalists’ prognostications of the future. The transition towns movement began in Totnes, England, home of the […]

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Teddy Goldsmith & left-right ecopolitics

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The obits have been coming in, albeit a little slowly, for Edward “Teddy” Goldsmith, founder of the fearless and influential British journal The Ecologist, co-founding member of Britain’s Green and Ecology parties, and publisher of the instrumental 1972 manifesto A Blueprint for Survival. Goldsmith, who died in his sleep on August 21, was a controversial […]

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spinning the Earth

Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, Visual culture, tagged , , , , on August 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M&hl=en&fs=1& Just by linking Carl Sagan’s eloquent little Pale Blue Dot to the teachings of Gautama Buddha, James Ure’s Buddhist Blog brings out the buddhism inherent both in Sagan’s words and in the imagery of the Earth from space. That imagery (as I’ve discussed before here and here) is multivalent, but Sagan’s spin on it […]

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prairie dogs & cosmopolitics in Santa Fe

Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Philosophy, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Over the past several days I’ve gone from the cool wetness of Alaska’s southeast coast to the high dryness of north-central New Mexico. The first was pure holiday, accompanied by loved ones (including those who generously funded it) and featuring glaciers, salmon, a black bear (devouring one of the salmon), a ride on one of […]

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eco-arts & ‘experimental geography’ round-up

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , , , on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The eco-arts blogosphere has kept simmering through the early summer. Greenmuseum.blog, connected to the excellent online environmental resource and exhibition space Green Museum, has taken on a new look. The blog had recently covered the Earth Matters on Stage EcoDrama Symposium, held at the University of Oregon. Mike Lawler’s EcoTheatre blog also provided coverage of […]

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