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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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We are the 1%

Posted in Eco-culture, Spirit matter on May 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »

The other 99% have apparently gone extinct. (The estimate is actually closer to 100% than 99%.) This I just learned form Joshua Schuster’s talk on “Digital extinction.” The earth’s biological diversity is also the highest it’s ever been. We are living between the achievement (of speciation to tremendous levels of flourishing) and the projection (that […]

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NT6: Morton: “They are here”

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged , on May 4, 2012 | 6 Comments »

Tim Morton, “They are here” Talking Heads video “Crosseyed and painless” (dir. Toni Basil, featured the Elecric Boogaloos). Is the non-national anthem of global anxiety. The sound of the end of the world and beginning of history. The first moonwalk is here (not Michael Jackson). The Levinasian “il y-a”, environmental creepiness, but we don’t know […]

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Green Countercultures

Posted in Eco-culture on April 3, 2012 | 3 Comments »

An interesting call for papers from Ecozon@… Call for Papers: Ecozon@ Issue 4.1 (Spring 2013) Green Countercultures Guest Editor: Peter Mortensen, Aarhus University From the late 1950s to the early 1970s an extraordinary counterculture emerged among young people in various western countries, opposing the values of mainstream society. The counterculture originated in a protest again […]

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Nature & the Popular Imagination (redux)

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture on March 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

We’re getting some good submissions, but there’s room for more. The deadline for proposals has been extended to May 1. I’m sharing the call for papers again here… The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (ISSRNC) is pleased to announce its next conference in Malibu, California at Pepperdine University in August […]

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Survival of the beautiful wondercabinet

Posted in Eco-culture on February 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

For those in New York City today, David Rothenberg has assembled quite the cast of characters… It’s a beautiful poster, and a good event.

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Toward an ecophilosophical cinema

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Visual culture, tagged , , , on February 17, 2012 | 13 Comments »

My paper for this year’s Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, coming up next month in Boston, will focus on the two films that got a lot of side-by-side attention at last year’s Cannes festival, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. Since a few of my favorite bloggers have […]

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Good news, bad news…

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, tagged , , , on September 8, 2011 | 5 Comments »

As I think about our Environmental Studies curriculum (I’m Acting Director this semester) and start to think about my Nature and Culture course (which I’ll be teaching in January), I come around to the question of how to conceptualize the fraught relationship between humans and everything else. The Nature and Culture course offers tools for […]

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Natura Loquens (CFP)

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture on August 31, 2011 | 7 Comments »

I’ve been waiting for this particular call for papers… I hope to see some of you there in Tenerife! “NATURA LOQUENS:” ERUPTIVE DIALOGUES, DISRUPTIVE DISCOURSES Contributions are invited for the 5th EASLCE International Conference on “Natura Loquens: Eruptive Dialogues, Disruptive Discourses,” to be held in Tenerife, Canaries, SPAIN, 27-30 June 2012. The event is organised […]

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Nature & the Popular Imagination

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, tagged , on August 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I’m helping to organize this conference. Nature, Hollywood, eco-apocalypse, and the Malibu coast (the one that Mike Davis says we should let burn)… Can you resist? NATURE & THE POPULAR IMAGINATION The Fifth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 8-11 August 2010, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California (USA) […]

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