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Integral Ecology schedule

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged , on May 31, 2011 | 7 Comments »

The Integral Ecology reading group schedule has been announced, with Michael at Archive Fire leading the charge (with the announcement; Adam at Knowledge Ecology with the actual hosting). The schedule is as follows:

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Year 25 A.C. (after Chernobyl)–a love letter

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on April 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I was going to post something to mark the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, but Sarah Phillips has already posted something so good, saying many of the things I would have wanted to say, that I will simply link to her article at Somatosphere and add some personal notes of my own. The […]

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New earth, old earth…

Posted in Blog stuff, Eco-culture on April 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Happy Earth Day, and many thanks to those of you who’ve written me kind and appreciative emails in reply to my last comment. I try to reply to emails individually, but just in case I don’t get around to it, your thoughts are always welcome and very appreciated. Gone to Earth (Haida Gwaii series, A. […]

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Eco-onto-politics 2: Integralism & climate change

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , on April 8, 2011 | 7 Comments »

This is the second post in a series on the intersections between ecology, ontology, and politics. (The first reviewed Andrew Pickering’s The Cybernetic Brain.) Here I focus on integral ecologist Sean Esbjörn–Hargens‘s article An Ontology of Climate Change: Integral Pluralism and the Enactment of Multiple Objects. This post can also serve as a prelude to […]

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iLAND’s perceptual alchemy

Posted in Eco-culture, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , on March 30, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Some of today’s most important eco-artists — people like Patricia Johanson, Betsy Damon, and others — work on a landscape scale with interdisciplinary groups of participants to render socio-ecological change into aesthetically tangible and artistically significant forms. Experimental dancer and choreographer Jennifer Monson’s work falls into this category as well, though, as dance, it tends […]

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iLAND Slow Networks symposium

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , on March 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I’ll be in New York City this weekend to participate in the iLAND Symposium at the New School, at the invitation of iLAND founder and Artistic Director Jennifer Monson.  iLAND is the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance, and this year’s symposium, which runs through Friday evening and all day Saturday, is entitled Slow […]

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Religion & the Japanese tragedy

Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on March 16, 2011 | 7 Comments »

Just as the Haitian earthquake was followed by a welter of religious interpretations (fundamentalist Christians blaming sinful Haitians for it, Vodoun practitioners weighing in on the events, etc.), so the Japanese quake-tsunami-meltdown trilogy is offering evidence of humanity’s interpretive propensities. You may have already seen the YouTube troll video satirizing right-wing Christian responses, which scandalized […]

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Plastic planet

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

Discard Studies shares Max Liboiron’s engrossing, and depressing, account of the ocean’s toxic soup of plastics. A few quotes: “The best conservative estimate we have is that there are 315 billion pounds of plastic in the ocean. For comparison, The Gulf Spill spewed roughly 2.5 million pounds of oil per day at its peak.  That […]

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Elixir as child’s play

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , on February 28, 2011 | 7 Comments »

Marina Zurkow’s Elixir videos are wonderful, as is her Renatured blog. (Thanks to Tim for posting about her work.) There is something sad and elemental about them, in their depiction of the self-containedness of our worlds and their ultimate vulnerability in the face of the chaos beyond. At the same time, the title suggests an […]

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Here & there (or democracy is coming, sort of)

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, Music & soundscape, Politics, Visual culture on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

To the USA, perhaps… But mostly neither here nor there… There’s an interesting flare-up occurring over Moammar Gaddafi’s son Saif’s Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, involving respected political theorists David Held and Benjamin Barber, among others. (See Eric Schliesser for more.) The issues it raises are as old as the oldest profession: universities’ […]

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34 warm years & counting

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture on January 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »

The results are in and both NOAA and NASA agree that 2010 is statistically tied (with 2005) for the warmest year on record, globally. Nine of the last ten years are among the ten warmest years on record. (The exception was 2008. The records go back to 1880.) And the last time we had a […]

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Books of the decade in ecocultural theory

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on December 19, 2010 | 24 Comments »

What books, published over the last ten years, have contributed most cogently and profoundly to our thinking about the relationship between culture and nature, ecology and society? (That’s to name just two of the dualisms this blog regularly throws into question.) Who have been the most important ecocultural theorists so far this century? And which […]

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