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interview on Heidegger, deep ecology, moon-shots, & more

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , , on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Paul Ennis has posted an interview with me over at Another Heidegger Blog. It follows a few great interviews with distinguished company — philosophers Graham Harman, Levi Bryant, and Lee Braver — and I hope it and the rest of the series generate productive cross-currents and conversations between philosophers, greens, and others. Meanwhile, I’m in […]

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walking on the moon

Posted in Philosophy, Visual culture, tagged , on July 16, 2009 | 10 Comments »

This image of Buzz Aldrin on the moon, photographed forty years ago by his Apollo 11 spacemate Neil Armstrong, has haunted me for decades. Not so much because it’s taken on the moon, as because of the image on his helmet, a mirror image that suggests there’s nothing behind the mask, inside that cavernous helmet, […]

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cinematic ecologies

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged , , , , on July 11, 2009 | 7 Comments »

As ecocriticism expands and deepens in scope (of subject matter & media examined), extent (internationally), and diversity (in approaches, connections with other schools of thought, etc.), its interactions with non-literary fields such as cinema studies, theatre/performance studies, and musicology (as I posted about recently) are starting to develop in healthy ways. The ASLE conference had […]

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Speculative Realism & its ecological sympathies

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , , , on July 5, 2009 | 18 Comments »

The philosophical movement increasingly known as Speculative Realism is starting to get attention in these parts of town (the town being Academe, or at least its digital suburbs, and these parts being its ecocritical/biocultural/animaphilic ghettoes). News about the forthcoming re.press anthology, The Speculative Turn: Continental Realism and Materialism, has been circulating for a few days […]

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when bad things happen (karma running over dogma)

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , on June 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »

We live in a universe of hazard, a place where asteroids strike, where car smash-ups pluck out a life like a boot squashing a centipede, where planes fall out of the sky, a heart attack takes a brother from behind in the middle of a night, a train runs over a friend’s passed out daughter, […]

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ASLE’s rabbits & cougars, or whither ecocriticism?

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, Politics, tagged , , on June 5, 2009 | 8 Comments »

There are rabbits all over the lawns of the University of Victoria campus. Like little furry grass-eating balls, they scurry forward a little from time to time but otherwise placidly chomp away at the lawns, oblivious to humans or anything else. Sometimes they just sit there, or lay themselves out and stare forward, cutely extending […]

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Berry’s creative, dynamic universe

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Another Thomas Berry quote worth spending a bit of time with: “Acceptance of the challenging aspect of the natural world is a primary condition for creative intimacy with the natural world. Without this opaque or even threatening aspect of the universe we would lose our greatest source of creative energy. This opposing element is as […]

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Thomas Berry passes away

Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The tributes are starting to come in for Thomas Berry, Catholic ecotheologian (or “geologian,” as he sometimes referred to himself), scholar, and spiritual/deep ecological visionary, who passed away at age 94 yesterday. Berry is best known for books including The Dream of the Earth, The Universe Story (with physicist Brian Swimme), and The Great Work, […]

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between continental & environmental philosophy

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on May 30, 2009 | 26 Comments »

Responding to a post on this blog, Kvond, a little while ago, raised the question of the relationship between Arne Naess, originator of “deep ecology,” and Spinoza – which made me think of the interesting if sporadic/uneven/episodic relationships between the main traditions of continental philosophy and environmental thought. A glance at the changing editions of […]

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open-source socialism & the politics of self-organizing systems

Posted in Media ecology, Philosophy, Politics, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , on May 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »

(On Kevin Kelly’s “The New Socialism,” Paul Ward’s Medea Hypothesis, Steven Shaviro’s “Against Self-Organization,” and more.) Self-organizing adaptive systems and other networks are more than just the flavor of the philosophical month; they are a model increasingly used to make sense of the natural and cultural worlds. Generally it’s assumed that such distributed self-organization is […]

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sightings

Posted in Philosophy on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Happy May Day, Beltane (see my original post on the two), and Open Access Anthropology Day! Here’s a great open access book to read today (though I’m hoping the emotional geographies folks will get together with the animal geographies folks to produce some interesting symbioses):

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philosophy vs. ecoculture

Posted in Blog stuff, Philosophy on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Maybe part of the reason I’ve been writing more on philosophical themes here than on ‘ecoculture’ is the simple fact that I’m surrounded by environmental themes on a daily basis – in my teaching, reading and writing, in discussions with students and colleagues. But not a single one of my colleagues here is a philosopher […]

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