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Ontology, decoloniality, and the people-land nexus

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 5, 2017 | 7 Comments »

Here’s something I’ve written to accompany a reading and discussion of Arturo Escobar’s piece “Thinking-feeling with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimensions of the Epistemologies of the South,” which I proposed as my suggested reading contribution for an intro graduate class in Environment and Society. I’m sharing it here as a brief think-piece.  […]

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Mortonian prophecies

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , on June 16, 2017 | 2 Comments »

When one of our cadre of eco-cultural theorists gets noticed — more so, fêted — by one of the leading newspapers in the world, we need to take note and celebrate with him. In this case, it’s Timothy Morton getting called “the philosopher prophet of the Anthropocene” by The Guardian, in a profile titled “A reckoning […]

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Integral ecologies

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , on May 5, 2017 | 2 Comments »

I’m happy to see that The Variety of Integral Ecologies: Nature, Culture, and Knowledge in the Planetary Era, an anthology co-edited by Sam Mickey, Sean Kelly, and Adam Robbert, has finally been published by SUNY Press. It is, to my knowledge, the first scholarly anthology that both assesses the Integral Ecology developed by Sean Esbjorn-Hargens and Michael Zimmerman […]

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A metaphysics they can’t match

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 20, 2017 | 2 Comments »

Opening the ISSRNC conference on Mountains and Sacred Landscapes with a set of images from anti-pipelines and indigenous solidarity events, Karenna Gore (daughter of Al and founding director of the Center for Earth Ethics) said something that struck me as an evocative distillation of what’s really at stake in the world. The Trump administration’s Inquisition-like demolition […]

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Whitehead in Greensboro

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , on July 6, 2016 | 3 Comments »

This post follows up on my previous note about Alfred North Whitehead’s time spent in Greensboro, Vermont. It was updated on July 7, 2016, thanks to information obtained from the Mitchells’ descendants. I have found out where the Whiteheads stayed when he was writing his philosophical magnum opus, Process and Reality. It was in a two-story cottage owned by economist […]

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Whitehead’s genius loci

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , on June 20, 2016 | 2 Comments »

I was astounded to read the following passage as I sat in a cottage on the shore of Caspian Lake in Greenboro, Vermont, earlier today: “Work on ‘The Concept of Organism’ began with the summer of 1927, which the Whiteheads spent in a cottage on the shore of Caspian Lake, in Greensboro, Vermont. It was there […]

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Follow-up on Peirce & the MER/EMR triad

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , on February 13, 2016 | 9 Comments »

I shared my previous post on the Peirce-L discussion forum and received about 16 responses in five days. The following is an edited version of the summary response I sent to the forum regarding the main comments presented there. I’ve eliminated names or substituted them with single initials where that seemed warranted.

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Rethinking the 3 categories

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 9, 2016 | 4 Comments »

I’ve been struggling with how my triadic framework for interpreting art works relates to C. S. Peirce’s categories. When I first developed my triadism (fleshed out in Ecologies of the Moving Image) into the non-Peircian terms of materiality, experience, and representation — which I did in the context of teaching a course on the environmental arts — […]

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Wark on Moore’s Capitalocene

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on November 6, 2015 | 5 Comments »

McKenzie Wark gets at some very important issues in what we might call “the ontology of the Anthropocene” in this review of Jason Moore’s book Capitalism in the Web of Life. Moore’s work, as he acknowledges (and as I have argued here before), provides an important contribution to rethinking the relations between humanity, the nonhuman world, and […]

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SR, or Morton on The Universe of Things

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , on July 28, 2015 | 2 Comments »

Tim Morton has penned a nice (if thoroughly Mortonish) introduction to a very nice introduction (by Steven Shaviro) to speculative realism. With lines like these:

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Harman’s reply

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , on June 9, 2015 | 24 Comments »

Graham Harman’s reply to my critical response to his book Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political, which appeared as part of a book symposium in Global Discourse earlier this year, is readable online, here.  I won’t address the details of that reply here. Some of them relate to our divergent interpretations of Latour, and since Harman has now written two books (and more) about […]

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“Ontology Across the Disciplines” reading group

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , on February 8, 2015 | 3 Comments »

I’m participating in a reading group here at the University of Vermont entitled “Ontology Across the Disciplines.” (More than just participating… I’ve been gently arm-twisted by the organizers, anthropologists Parker Van Valkenberg and Ben Eastman, into chairing the discussions. Thanks, guys 😉 ) Since I know there are folks out there who may be interested, […]

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