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The joy (& loneliness) of being interdisciplinarian

Posted in Academe, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on December 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »

What makes an -ologist, -osopher, -ographer? What, for instance, makes one an anthropologist? A geographer? A philosopher? A scientist? Scene 1: As chair of a search committee looking to hire a political ecologist, a tenure-track position to be shared between a Geography department and an Environmental Studies program, I’ve been involved in intensive discussion of […]

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Not drowning, just coming up for air & waving

Posted in Academe, Blog stuff, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on November 23, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I owe regular readers an explanation for the lengthy hiatus on this blog. As I had predicted would happen back in the summer, this semester turned into an extremely busy one for me. Directing the Environmental Studies program at the University of Vermont is a large part of that busyness: it’s a large, interdisciplinary and […]

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Morton’s poetry

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , on October 2, 2011 | 19 Comments »

Tim Morton writes beautifully. His “Objects as Temporary Autonomous Zones,” published in the most recent issue of Continent, is a beautiful illustration of this. I could say he writes poetically, but that would be suggesting that his writing is not itself poetry, but only looks and feels like poetry — which would mean succumbing to […]

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Democracy of Objects

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , on September 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Levi Bryant’s The Democracy of Objects is finally available and readable on-line, courtesy of a wonderfully innovative relationship between Open Humanities Press and the University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The book is part of OHP’s New Metaphysics Series, edited by Graham Harman and Bruno Latour. As regular readers know, Levi has been a […]

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Life outside the lava lamp

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , on August 17, 2011 | 17 Comments »

Over at Naught Thought, Ben Woodard (sorry, Ben, for the earlier misspell) wants “to know what the Process/Relational folks think” of his thoughts about philosophies of process versus philosophies of objects or substances (or something like that). What follows is one quick and dirty way of thinking of a certain key difference between these two […]

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Film-Philosophy article

Posted in Cinema, Philosophy, tagged , , , on August 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »

The new issue of Film-Philosophy is out, and it includes my article “The Anthrobiogeomorphic Machine: Stalking the Zone of Cinema.” The abstract is below. The first half of the article is an early version of the paper I gave at the recent Moving Environments conference, which encompassed material from the first two chapters of my […]

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Integral Ecology week 7

Posted in Philosophy on July 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The Integral Ecology reading group seems to have lost some of its momentum over the last 3-4 weeks (as witness the minimal responses to the last two posts), but Nick, the “staunch Wilberian” of the group ;-), has now picked things up with his overview of Chapter 8 at the Integral Ecology Center blog. (Hmm… […]

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On theism/nihilism & other things

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , on July 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The Speculative Realist blogosphere has recently been alight with debates over the role of religion, God, theism versus nihilism, the secular and the “post-secular,” and other such things. Since these are topics I’m naturally interested, and somewhat invested, in, I ought to participate, but time constraints have made that all but impossible for me recently. […]

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Nature vs. Grace?

Posted in Cinema, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on July 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The latest issue of Precipitate: Journal of the New Environmental Imagination — which looks like an excellent issue — includes a review of Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” that reminds me how important it is to pay attention to the dialogical and heteroglossic texture of Malick’s films, and how easy it is to lose […]

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Ecological selves (Integral Ecology week 6)

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on July 9, 2011 | 9 Comments »

After a brief hiatus, the Integral Ecology reading group is back in action here. (Antonio at Mediacology combined two chapters – 5 and 6 – in his post of two weeks ago, and I’m running a little late with this one.) What follows is my summary and response to Chapter 7, “Ecological Selves: The Who […]

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Grosz’s postmodern Darwinism

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , on July 3, 2011 | 5 Comments »

Among the books coming out in this fall’s Duke University Press catalog (pdf) is one I’m particularly looking forward to: Elizabeth Grosz’s Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art. Grosz is among the most exciting thinkers in the post-Deleuzian landscape — a tremendous synthesist of the biological (especially Darwinian), philosophical (especially “vital materialist”), […]

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Anti-life… (?)

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , on June 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »

So what’s all this anti-vitalism wafting on the (post-) Continental wind? What’s it working from? (Thacker? Others?)  Is it anything more than another round of vanguardism (“not enough to revitalize matter, let’s devitalize life while we’re at it” — another version of the old Stalinist jingle about not being able to make an omelet without […]

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