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Happy phytomorphosis

Posted in Eco-culture, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , on December 24, 2013 | 6 Comments »

  Plant scientists are wondering if plants really communicate with each other (and with insects and other organisms) or if they just “eavesdrop” on each other’s “soliloquies.” At stake in the debate are the definitions of communication (e.g., is it necessarily intentional, and is intentionality necessarily conscious intentionality?) and behavior (is it something that only animals do?). […]

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Toronto talk: Ukraine’s anomalous Zone

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 1, 2013 | 6 Comments »

My upcoming talk at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs comes from the East European strand of my research. The talk will be called “Becoming Tuteishyi: Peregrinations in the Zona of Ukraine, with Walter, Gloria, Andrei, Bruno, and Other Explorers.” The description reads as follows: Drawing on the author’s research and travels, […]

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Say what? (going solar)

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , on October 15, 2013 | 1 Comment »

Nothing like a bit of good news* to make us feel that the fight against fossil-fuel gangsters is worth continuing… “We’re actually winning the fight against climate change, but most people don’t know it yet.” And this: “Within eighteen months . . . solar will be able to compete in three-quarters of the world’s electricity […]

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Mosaïcultures

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , , , on September 16, 2013 | 2 Comments »

Some pictures from the Mosaïcultures international exhibition of horticultural arts at Montreal’s Botanical Gardens. The exhibition continues until September 29. Lise Cormier’s Mother Earth

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Let the hobbits live

Posted in Eco-culture on August 6, 2013 | 2 Comments »

Glandwr councillors, don’t do it. It’s a beautiful, sustainably designed home. Let them live there. See Couple lose fight to save ‘hobbit house’ eco-home from demolition. And Charley and Meg’s Facebook page for updates. Then sign the petition. More pictures here.  

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Nice or what?

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , on July 17, 2013 | 4 Comments »

The above is (a) beautiful, (b) ugly, (c) neither beautiful nor ugly in itself (nor anything else in particular), or (d) _________ (fill in the blank)? It’s a view (on a particularly hazy day) of the Sheffield wind power project in northeast Vermont, as seen from Crystal Lake State Park beach outside the town of […]

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Sighting Oil

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged on March 11, 2013 | 2 Comments »

While it’s been out for several months now, the current issue of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, a special issue on Sighting Oil, deserves more press than it’s gotten. The journal is housed at the University of Alberta, which makes it particularly well situated to critically observe the development of Alberta’s infamous Tar Sands. […]

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Latour on Gaia & Natural Religion

Posted in Eco-culture, Spirit matter, tagged , on October 30, 2012 | 5 Comments »

Bruno Latour’s upcoming Gifford Lectures sound remarkable. See ANTHEM for the details. There could be no better theme for a lecture series on natural religion than that of Gaia, this puzzling figure that has emerged recently in public discourse from Earth science as well as from many activist and spiritual movements. The problem is that the […]

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Take-home message

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, tagged , on October 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »

… from Bill McKibben and 350.org’s new roadshow, “Do The Math,” previewed tonight here at the University of Vermont: If climate scientists (and climate change modelers) are correct that the burning of more than a small fraction of the world’s available fossil fuel reserves will trigger changes that will induce paroxysms of preventable suffering, then […]

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The wound of eco-trauma

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, tagged on September 18, 2012 | 2 Comments »

My article “The Wound of What Has Not Happened Yet: Cine-Semiotics of Eco-Trauma” appeared in the trilingual (English-German-Czech) arts journal Umelec late last year. (It kicked off the issue, followed by Mark Fisher’s wonderful “Terminator vs. Avatar: Notes on Accelerationism.”) The editors illustrated it with photos from David Cronenberg’s Crash, which I found funny. The […]

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Nature & the Popular Imagination keynote

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture on June 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s the abstract for the keynote I will be giving at Nature and the Popular Imagination in Malibu this August. It builds on my recent talk at Bucks College, but without the nod to pop-cultural interest in Avatar. THE AGE OF THE WORLD MOTION PICTURE starring the Cinematic Earth, with cameo appearances by Charles Darwin, […]

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SAR “Nature, Science, Religion” volume out

Posted in Eco-culture, Science & society, Spirit matter, tagged , , , on May 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »

I received my copies in the mail this week of the book that arose out of the School of Advanced Research seminar on “Nature, Science, and Religion: Intersections Shaping Society and the Environment.” It’s a handsome volume, whose contents provide a level of cross-cutting conversation that, I think, is rare among edited collections. Catherine Tucker […]

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