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Eco-humanities glossolalia

Posted in Academe, Eco-theory, tagged , on September 18, 2015 | 3 Comments »

I’ve just come across the earliest outline I wrote for the course I’m currently teaching (in its third incarnation), “Environmental Literature, Arts, and Media.” The course has also turned into a book project I’m working on, which will be a thematic primer to the environmental arts and humanities. Both course and book have changed shape so […]

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Rethinking the ‘three ecologies’

Posted in Eco-theory, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 8, 2014 | 10 Comments »

Or, process-relational ecocriticism 2.0 Two of the courses I’m currently teaching — the intermediate-level “Environmental Literature, Art, and Media” and the senior-level “The Culture of Nature” — require introducing an eco-critical framework appropriate to a wide range of artistic forms, from literature to visual art, music, film and new media. The process-relational framework developed in […]

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2 or 3 things about the cinema book

Posted in Cinema, Eco-theory, Visual culture, tagged , on October 22, 2012 | 7 Comments »

Ecologies of the Moving Image is a book of ecophilosophy that happens to be about cinema, and about the 12-decade history of cinema at that. What makes it ecophilosophy? It is philosophy that is deeply informed both by an understanding of ecological science and an interdisciplinary appreciation for today’s ecological crisis. Why cinema?

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CFP: Thinking & Acting Ecologically

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged on September 18, 2012 | 3 Comments »

The International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) presents the Tenth Annual Meeting on Environmental Philosophy, to be held 12-14th of June 2013 at The University of East Anglia, UK. “Thinking and Acting Ecologically” The ISEE invites submissions on any topic in environmental philosophy / ecophilosophy broadly conceived. The focus of the tenth annual meeting will […]

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Whitehead’s return, ecology’s boon

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , on April 29, 2012 | 12 Comments »

“Ultimately, the thinking of speculative pragmatism that is activist philosophy belongs to nature. Its aesthetico-politics compose a nature philosophy. The occurrent arts in which it exhibits itself are politics of nature. “The one-word summary of its relational-qualitative goings on: ecology. Activist philosophy concerns the ecology of powers of existence. Becomings in the midst. Creative change […]

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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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Integral Ecology – week 3 (part 1)

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on June 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The Integral Ecology reading group moves here this week, picking up the baton from Adam and Sam at Knowledge Ecology. (And see Michael’s summary at Archive Fire.) This week we’re focusing on chapters 3 (“A Developing Kosmos”) and 4 (“Developing Interiors”). Following a short summative preamble, this post examines Chapter 3. Its follow-up will examine […]

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The idea of Nature, refigured

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , on May 4, 2011 | 6 Comments »

In defiance of the idea that Nature — the thing, or the idea (capitalized or not), or both — is either dead or unnecessary, I feel like posting some favorite passages from “Nature Alive,” the second of A. N. Whitehead’s two 1933 lectures on nature, published in Modes of Thought (1938/1968), which you can read […]

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For a moratorium on “constructivism”

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on April 30, 2011 | 8 Comments »

I’d like to call a moratorium on the use of the word “constructivism” (or “constructionism”) to refer only to social constructivism. (This post was prompted by Tim  Morton’s Object-Oriented Strategies for Ecological Art, but his point there is somewhat differently directed and mine addresses a more general issue that can still be found in a […]

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cfp: Int’l Assoc. for Environmental Philosophy

Posted in Academe, Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , on March 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »

The IAEP picks a nice image for this conference… Spirit tracks on Mars

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cfp: Rethinking Time & Ecology

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy on March 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »

CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue of Environmental Philosophy THEME: Temporal Environments: Rethinking Time and Ecology Details:

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repetition with (slight) difference

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , on December 10, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Just a few quick responses to Levi Bryant. Levi writes: 1) entities are nonetheless patterned or structured despite their becoming, 2) they are unities, and 3) they cannot be submerged in or exhausted by their relations. Relations can always be detached. Objects can always enter into new relations. [. . .] if you hold that […]

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