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polar bag

Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , , , , on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Ambient electroacoustic artists Stars of the Lid do a beautiful job with thisEnvironmental Defense Fund NYC subway ad campaign video. The other ads in the series can be viewed here.

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dream for Earth Fool’s Day

Posted in Eco-culture on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I woke up this morning from a dream in which I had gotten lost in a part of the house (where I live) that had gotten disconnected from the rest of the building. I was wandering somewhere in what seemed like a large hotel or apartment complex looking for the rest of my home. When […]

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tipping point ahead

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s an effective little media piece: Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo. Full screen is particularly nice, and the well referenced script gives it substance.

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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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Immanent naturalism

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged , on February 26, 2009 | 7 Comments »

“Immanent naturalism” is political theorist William E. Connolly’s term for a tradition of thought that doesn’t seek ultimate explanations, ahistorical forces, or transcendental frameworks to give meaning to the world; rather, it finds meaning enough in the world as it is experienced by mortals like us. The general idea is that the world itself is […]

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more on complex sustainabilities

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The “Complex History” mentioned below was published on Archis.org, which also features an interesting essay on architecture’s “Counter-Histories of Sustainability”. Meanwhile, on the eve of the Oscars it’s interesting to note that globe-trotting green architect Bill McDonough has been making inroads with the Hollywood eco-set, all the while losing some of his sheen as a […]

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a pretty complex history of sustainability…

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Every grad student in environmental studies (and related areas) should be quizzed on this map: The Complex History of Sustainability. Departments could be evaluated based on how well they cover the spectrum portrayed in it… Within reason, of course — we don’t really need an eco-Nazi, a global warming conspiracy theorist, or even a libertarian […]

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Deleuze/Guattari & ecology

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Several prominent Deleuzians are collected in Bernd Herzogenrath’s “Deleuze/Guattari and ecology.” The opening chapter is on the publisher’s web site.

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climate change victims

Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged , on December 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On a visit to Ohio this week, I caught about ten minutes of an interview on a network TV station with a representative from the Maldives, talking about the plight they face with rising sea levels and the urgency of doing something about climate change at the Poznan, Poland, meeting. (See more.) It got me […]

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