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33⅓ Environmental Studies greats (or, a canon, revisited)

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , on April 9, 2015 | 10 Comments »

The following is a significantly revised version of an article I posted to the Indications blog (and etc) five and a half years ago. I was curious to see how much of it still holds (a lot, I think), so I’ve revisited it and expanded its proposed sort-of-canon, in the second part of what follows, into a list of […]

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Peak wild fish (or, one more of 1000 plateaus)

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , , , on January 14, 2015 | 1 Comment »

Two kinds of historical turning points define our era. The first kind involves the retrospective identification of new forms of enclosure, exploitive intensification, or system derailment. Debates over the beginnings of a recession, or of a war, or — on a larger scale — of the Anthropocene, are about this kind of backdating: how far back do we […]

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GMO debate: New Yorker vs. Vandana Shiva

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on November 3, 2014 | 1 Comment »

With its passage of Act 120 this past June, Vermont became the first U.S. state to require mandatory labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). (This followed Connecticut’s and Maine’s decisions to require it once adjacent states do.) Since then, GMO food manufacturers have announced they will challenge that decision in court. Meanwhile, critics of GMOs […]

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The semio-ethics of Coke’s polar bear mascots

Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , , on October 16, 2014 | 2 Comments »

A journalist asked me to say something about the use of animal mascots for commercial purposes. In an email, she wrote: “What does a brand owe an animal mascot, especially one at risk? For instance, polar bears face rapid habitat loss, yet Coke has only donated $2 million to the WWF for conservation efforts. There’s also Kellogg’s […]

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Climate movement

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , on September 22, 2014 | 7 Comments »

As I write, Bill McKibben is being interviewed left and right, Tom Ashbrook is interviewing Naomi Klein and pushing her to outline a vision that isn’t capitalism-as-we-know-it, Time magazine is saying this could be the largest march of its kind — which raises the question of what kind it is — and the People’s Climate March is […]

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Busy being born…

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , on September 17, 2014 | 1 Comment »

When humans look back on our time from the next era, they might see this weekend’s People’s Climate March as a key event in the movement that led to the next era. The alternative is a little scarier: it’s that there will be no next era, or at least no humans looking back from it. […]

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Under Western Skies 3

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, tagged , , , on August 27, 2014 | 2 Comments »

The preliminary program is up for the third Under Western Skies conference, “Intersections of Environments, Technologies, Communities,” which will be held in a couple of weeks at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. And it looks fantastic. I think the biennial UWS gatherings are becoming one of the leading interdisciplinary forums for environmental thinking, critique, and […]

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Art & ecology at AESS

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , , on June 13, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

Two quick observations about art and ecology at Welcome to the Anthropocene: 1) I’m impressed with how well art has been integrated into the program, thanks in part to Jennifer Joy‘s work in weaving her own performances with a troupe of local artists and dancers throughout the events. (And how none of it is the cloying kind […]

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NYC: Arts & Humanities on the Anthropocene

Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-culture, tagged , , , on June 10, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

This week’s AESS conference “Welcome to the Anthropocene” features a breakfast roundtable called “The Arts and Humanities Respond to the Anthropocene.” See the session description below. Unfortunately the panelists have been dropping like flies: it looks like neither dancer and performance artist Jennifer Monson, eco-artist Jackie Brookner, nor performer and comedian Jennifer Joy can make it. That […]

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Anthropocene aesthetics

Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , on April 10, 2014 | 1 Comment »

Cross-posting this piece by Emil from A(s)cene. Taylor’s coral reef art is beautiful. See also the discussion of Donna Haraway’s “String Figures” lecture and Bruno Latour’s 11 theses on capitalism.   

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SCMS Media & Environment group

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Media ecology, Uncategorized, tagged , on March 23, 2014 | 1 Comment »

The Media and Environment Scholarly Interest Group just won the prize for best attended business meeting at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Or so we were informed by the SCMS interest group liaison present at the meeting. This year’s SCMS featured what to my mind was by far the largest assemblage of panels and papers […]

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Still warming

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, tagged on February 23, 2014 | 1 Comment »

For all the complaints many of us in the U.S. heard or voiced about the cold, this past January was the fourth warmest on record, and the 38th consecutive January and 347th consecutive month (almost 29 years) that global temperatures have been above the average for the 20th century. More here and here.    

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