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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2 or 3 things about the cinema book
Posted in Cinema, Eco-theory, Visual culture, tagged ecocinema, Ecologies of the Moving Image on October 22, 2012 | 7 Comments »
CFP: Thinking & Acting Ecologically
Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged environmental philosophy 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 […]
Whitehead’s return, ecology’s boon
Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged environmental philosophy, object-oriented philosophy, process philosophy, speculative realism, Whitehead 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 […]
Toward an ecophilosophical cinema
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Visual culture, tagged film, Malick, Peirce, von Trier 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 […]
Integral Ecology – week 3 (part 1)
Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged ecological politics, ecotheory, Esbjorn-Hargens & Zimmerman, Integral Ecology, integral theory, Wilber 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 […]
The idea of Nature, refigured
Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged nature, Whitehead 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 […]
cfp: Int’l Assoc. for Environmental Philosophy
Posted in Academe, Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged conferences, environmental philosophy on March 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The IAEP picks a nice image for this conference… Spirit tracks on Mars
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:
repetition with (slight) difference
Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged Bryant, object-oriented philosophy 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 […]
cane toads on Mars, firewalls on Pluto
Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged complexity, object-oriented philosophy, Ontology, epistemology, relationalism, speculative realism on April 10, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Replying to me here, Graham Harman explains his objections to relational ontologies, arguing that they fail to make a distinction between the “two sorts of relations” in which an entity is involved. These are not “the famous ‘internal’ and ‘external’ relations,” but are what he “somewhat whimsically” calles the “domestic” and “foreign” relations of an object. (I like this distinction, though I’m not sure how it’s different from internal and external relations.)
GH: “Surely Adrian doesn’t want to claim that the cane toad is a set of all its relations? If Mars were five inches further along in its course than it currently is, would the cane toad be a different cane toad than it is now?” [. . .]
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