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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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 »
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 […]
Nature’s nation
Posted in Eco-culture on December 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The new issue of Environmental Communication includes the special section I edited for them on the Ken Burns series The National Parks. It can be accessed here if you have an institutional subscription. If not, Routledge sometimes makes sample issues available. My own piece, which kicks off the five-article set, has a few things to […]
Cancun: what just happened?
Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, tagged Cancun, ecopolitics on December 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Making sense of what happened at the COP 16 global climate change summit in Cancun is not easy, especially when environmental and climate justice activists seem so intensely divided among themselves (and when the mass media has paid so little attention to it all). Democracy Now yesterday pitted Friends of the Earth’s policy analyst Kate […]
slouching toward the Cancun bar
Posted in Eco-culture on November 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Peaksurfer‘s Albert Bates has a very good article up called The Great Change: Slouching towards Cancun. A few tidbits: Because of the huge outpouring of non-profit energy, money and effort at Copenhagen last year, and the subsequent meltdown of the Copenhagen round, the approach to this year’s COP (Conference of Parties to the Framework Climate […]
ecomedia studies blog
Posted in Eco-culture on November 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I somehow missed that the Ecomedia Studies group (which I was a co-founder of) has launched an eponymous blog. (It used to be a group wiki page, but now has morphed into a public blog.) It looks very good, and features some of the more prolific young scholars in ecomedia criticism, green media studies, ecocinecriticism, […]
the “house of cards” house of cards
Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, tagged Climategate on October 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For all my skepticism toward most “climate skepticism,” I find the case of Judith Curry very interesting. This recent post at her blog Climate Etc. repeatedly resorts to metaphors like “‘Alice down the rabbit hole’ moments” and “bucket[s] of cold water being poured over my head” to describe her experiences venturing outside the warm world […]
shooting it green
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, tagged film on September 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Since I write about film from an ecocritical perspective, I feel obliged to share information about the greening of filmmaking practice. Transforming Cultures has a post about that. Here’s the trailer for Lauren Selman’s/Real Green Media‘s Greenlit, a film that, like No Impact Man, appears to fall into the “it’s the right thing to do, […]
field of dreams
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Spirit matter, tagged Deleuze, depth psychology, dreaming, ecopsychology, film on September 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I just watched Amy Hardie’s recent film The Edge of Dreaming, a documentary about a year in her life during which this science documentarian and self-proclaimed skeptic becomes haunted by a series of dreams that appear to foretell her own death before the year is over. The film becomes an exploration of neuroscience, the meaning […]
low impact movie?
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, tagged film on September 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Ctt7FGFBo?fs=1&hl=en_US <a href="Level Ground has an excellent review by Another Green World‘s Derek Wall of the eco-doc No Impact Man (you can click the title to watch the whole thing, apparently). We can’t collect bottles and line them up until we get to a sustainable world. Structural change rather than individual action is essential. Take […]
stray shopping carts
Posted in Eco-culture, Process-relational thought, tagged garbology, object-oriented philosophy on September 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Julian Montague’s Stray Shopping Cart Project ought to please both objectophiles and processophiles (for different reasons–which suggests a pragmatic solution to that debate): “Until now, the major obstacle that has prevented people from thinking critically about stray shopping carts has been that we have not had any formalized language to differentiate one shopping cart from […]
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