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Forthcoming books

Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 17, 2025 | 1 Comment »

I’m happy to share the news that both The New Lives of Images and Terra Invicta are now available for pre-order. The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds is a theoretically and empirically rich study of images, imagination, and the digital. It’s the fourth in a tetralogy of books […]

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Theory for a hybrid [war] world

Posted in Cultural politics, Eco-theory, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 5, 2025 | 4 Comments »

I’m working up a conference idea around the following set of thoughts, which are still very much in the process of being formulated. Comments welcome. The present conjuncture For those who study such things, social and cultural theory — sometimes simply called “Theory” with a capital T — has done wonders for helping us understand […]

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The EH consensus (?)

Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-theory, tagged , , , , , , on October 9, 2024 | Leave a Comment »

The field I’ve worked in for the last few decades, which has come to be known as the Environmental Humanities (capitalized or not), is one that requires keeping up with ongoing scholarship not only in the humanities, but also in the social sciences and the biological and earth sciences. From my reading of the field, […]

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The 3 Body Problem’s Ecological Fallacy

Posted in Eco-theory, Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 1, 2024 | Leave a Comment »

This is a slightly evolved out-take from my recent Vermont Humanities talk, which can be viewed here. Netflix’s 3 Body Problem was remarkably entertaining, I thought, but the whole San-Ti plot line is built around a basic ecological fallacy. Let me explain. (And I’m referring here to the Netflix series, not necessarily to the novel […]

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The population bli(m)p

Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-theory, tagged , , , , , on October 14, 2023 | 7 Comments »

When I was younger, I would occasionally hear from fellow environmentalists that the “real problem” was human overpopulation. (The standard answer, from the well informed, was: nope, it’s inequality, extractive capitalism, institutional inertia, patriarchal values, colonialism, et al. “Overpopulation” was a symptom, not the disease.) The population-mongers have mostly faded since then, as the “demographic […]

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Ecomedia Studies handbook

Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , on August 8, 2023 | 1 Comment »

I’m happy to share the news that the Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies is out — and is entirely open-access, which is especially thrilling, as Routledge handbooks can otherwise get pretty expensive. It’s a 36-chapter mega-volume that tries to define the field and lay out some of its most exciting international contours. The volume is […]

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Climate change as class war?

Posted in Climate change, Cultural politics, Eco-theory, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on January 31, 2023 | 5 Comments »

Thinking further about the global climate precariat (and the ontology of climate trauma, etc.), I’ve been reading a set of books that try to articulate a “class politics” for the present eco-political conjuncture. In particular, Matthew Huber’s Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet (Verso, 2022) and Bruno Latour’s and Nikolaj […]

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More-or-less-(than)-human

Posted in Eco-theory, tagged , , , , , , on October 19, 2022 | 1 Comment »

The term “more-than-human” has become a popular way of designating the “nonhuman” within the environmental humanities. Other terms used include “other-than-human,” and much less frequently “unhuman” and “inhuman,” with the latter’s negative connotations upended (successfully or not) to read positively. “More-than-human” was, to my knowledge, first used by David Abram in his 1996 ecophilosophical bestseller […]

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R.i.p., Bruno Latour

Posted in Eco-theory, tagged , , , , on October 9, 2022 | 1 Comment »

Hearing the announcement of Bruno Latour‘s death earlier today, I remembered his visit to the Feverish World symposium, which I co-organized in 2018 in Burlington, Vermont. Despite his health (which was turning for the worse at the time), he participated gracefully in this strange mixture of conference, festival, and street event, and gave a great […]

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Eco-querying The Dawn of Everything

Posted in Eco-theory, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 21, 2022 | 2 Comments »

The Immanent Frame, the Social Science Research Council’s forum on religion, secularism, and the public sphere, is in the midst of publishing a series of responses to David Graeber’s and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything. My contribution, entitled “The Dawn of Everything Good?“, appeared last week. The series can be read here. The following […]

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What does it mean to plant a tree (or a trillion)?

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Eco-theory, tagged , , , , , , , on July 20, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

Here, for instance, in Brazil’s Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Veadeiros? Zach St. George’s New York Times article “Can Planting a Trillion New Trees Save the World?” is an excellent overview of the reality of tree planting versus the ideal of it. Among the reality-checks:

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Ways to inhabit the world

Posted in Eco-theory, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 24, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

The following post elaborates on some comments I made this week at the Ritual Creativity conference at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Deep thanks to conference organizers Katri Ratia and François Gauthier for inviting me to what turned out to be an immensely rewarding event, and to my co-panelists Graham Harvey, Sarah Pike, and Susannah […]

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