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cinematic ecologies

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged , , , , on July 11, 2009 | 7 Comments »

As ecocriticism expands and deepens in scope (of subject matter & media examined), extent (internationally), and diversity (in approaches, connections with other schools of thought, etc.), its interactions with non-literary fields such as cinema studies, theatre/performance studies, and musicology (as I posted about recently) are starting to develop in healthy ways. The ASLE conference had […]

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some favorites

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

As chair of the awards committee for the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, I’ve had to start thinking about the best scholarly books published in the last couple of years. Given the overlap between “the study of religion, nature, and culture” and this blog, I thought I’d throw out some […]

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mercy mercy me (the ecology)

Posted in Eco-culture, Music & soundscape, tagged , on June 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The explicitly ecological piece on Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On was Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), which, like a lot of his music at the time, fuses a clear-eyed realism with an optimistic, gospel-tinged sense of possibility. I’m not sure where this video comes from (or why David Bowie appears in it), but the shots […]

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earth songs: Michael Jackson’s cultural ecologies

Posted in Eco-culture, Music & soundscape, tagged , , , on June 30, 2009 | 13 Comments »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8muMo0fw_M&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 The death of Michael Jackson has prompted eco-bloggers to take another look at Jackson’s 1995 “Earth Song“, which some consider the most popular environmentally themed song ever produced. The song remains Jackson’s biggest seller in the U.K, having sold over a million copies there — more than either “Thriller” or “Billie Jean” — but […]

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happy solstice

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , on June 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Two revolutions are being marked this weekend. One of them is natural, cyclical, the revolution of the earth around the sun with the sun reaching its most northerly point (in closeness to the surface of the tilted planet we live on), standing still for a brief moment, and turning back to the south. The second […]

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Will the 21st century be Foucauldian-Pollanian?

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , on June 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Shaka Freeman’s photo posts asking the question “Michael Pollan or Michel Foucault?” are hilarious, because the two Mickeys really do look alike and are sometimes difficult to tell apart. For the sake of a bit of entertaining triangulation, I’ve added Foucauldian ecologist and Greenpeace Canada activist Eric Darier to the mix. But the site also […]

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Flight Patterns, Earthrise, et al.

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Those links to some of the art pieces Andy Revkin has posted on Dot Earth could be easily missed on my previous post, so I’m posting them separately here. Aaron Koblin’s “Flight Patterns” series animates airplane flight patterns over the United States: Revkin has a brief interview with Koblin as well. I find that the […]

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eco-criticism/communication & the future of reading

Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology on June 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »

ASLE, Andrew Revkin, blogging

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more ASLE observations

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , on June 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Intrigued by the number of times the name of Bruno Latour came up in conversations at the ASLE conference, I counted the mentions of different theorists and philosophers (i.e., not literary writers, artists, et al.) in the titles of conference papers and presentations. (Unfortunately, neither the program nor the conference website provides full abstracts. Note […]

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ASLE’s rabbits & cougars, or whither ecocriticism?

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, Politics, tagged , , on June 5, 2009 | 8 Comments »

There are rabbits all over the lawns of the University of Victoria campus. Like little furry grass-eating balls, they scurry forward a little from time to time but otherwise placidly chomp away at the lawns, oblivious to humans or anything else. Sometimes they just sit there, or lay themselves out and stare forward, cutely extending […]

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Thomas Berry passes away

Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The tributes are starting to come in for Thomas Berry, Catholic ecotheologian (or “geologian,” as he sometimes referred to himself), scholar, and spiritual/deep ecological visionary, who passed away at age 94 yesterday. Berry is best known for books including The Dream of the Earth, The Universe Story (with physicist Brian Swimme), and The Great Work, […]

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Brulle’s response to Lakoff

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , on May 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Robert Brulle has kindly shared his reply to George Lakoff’s article “Why Environmental Understanding, or ‘Framing,’ Matters.” See below for further discussion of the article. I found Dr. Lakoff’s comments quite interesting and revealing of the limitations of cognitive science in the analysis of social change processes. From a sociological perspective, attitudes and beliefs are […]

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