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Archive for the ‘Eco-culture’ Category
Performance Research ‘On Ecology’ issue
Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, tagged calls, performance on August 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Munich surf
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged art, Bron Taylor, documentary, film, surfing, trauma, urban nature, war on July 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Things to do on a Sunday in Munich… 1. Find where nature and culture (river and engineering) slam into each other in a passionate wave. Ride it. Observations: To enjoy it at all, you have to be good. Some of these guys (and women) are really good. If you stay up for more than the […]
Plasticity run wild
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged Ontology, epistemology, plasticity, reality, technoculture, virtual reality, virtuality on July 9, 2011 | 6 Comments »
In response to my Dharma of file sharing post, visual artist Tom Gokey, whose work readers may know from Speculations journal, shared a link to his video on “Public Libraries, 3D Printing, FabLabs, and Hackerspaces.” It is… stunning in its implications. Just watch. The democratization of production? The total plasticization of the world?
Integral Ecology schedule
Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged Integral Ecology, integral theory 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:
Year 25 A.C. (after Chernobyl)–a love letter
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged Chernobyl, ecology, environmental movement, nuclear politics, Tarkovsky, Ukraine, Vapniaky 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 […]
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. […]
Eco-onto-politics 2: Integralism & climate change
Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged environmental sociology, Esbjorn-Hargens, integral theory, integralism, Ontology, epistemology, post-constructivism, Whitehead, Wilber 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 […]
iLAND’s perceptual alchemy
Posted in Eco-culture, Spirit matter, tagged dance, eco-art, iLAND, Monson, New York City, performance 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 […]
iLAND Slow Networks symposium
Posted in Eco-culture, tagged dance, ecoart 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 […]
Religion & the Japanese tragedy
Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, Spirit matter, tagged animism, eventology, imagination, Japan tsunami, nature, paganism, pantheism, religion, ritual, Shinto, spirituality 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 […]
Plastic planet
Posted in Eco-culture, tagged crisis, environment, plastic planet, toxic planet 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 […]
Elixir as child’s play
Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged Aleister Crowley, art, Heidegger, Heraclitus, ParkeHarrison, visuality, von Uexkull 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 […]