For interdisciplinary scholars, it’s always a challenge to decide which conferences to attend and which to forgo. The problem is particularly acute when the conferences are held at the same time, as occurred last week with the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and American Academy of Religion (AAR). As I’ve been attending […]
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Ontologies of bilocation
Posted in Academe, tagged anthropology, interdisciplinarity, Latour, Ontology, epistemology on December 1, 2013 | 3 Comments »
Under Western Skies CFP
Posted in Academe on September 18, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Under Western Skies: Intersections of Environments, Technologies, and Communities September 9 – 13, 2014 Mount Royal University Calgary, AB CANADA Under Western Skies is a biennial, interdisciplinary conference on the environment. The third conference welcomes academics from across the disciplines as well as members of artistic and activist communities, non- and for-profit organizations, government, labour, and […]
Digital environmental humanities
Posted in Academe, Uncategorized, tagged digital humanities, environmental humanities on September 8, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
It’s the second day of the Digital Environmental Humanities Workshop at McGill University. Yesterday was devoted to the environmental humanities, today to the digital. One of the main goals is to bring the two together in new and productive ways. Many exciting developments… Geoff Rockwell has been posting his notes from the conference. His list […]
AAR panel on Latour’s Gifford Lectures
Posted in Academe, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged Gaia, Gifford Lectures, immanence, Latour, natural religion on June 19, 2013 | 2 Comments »
The AAR panel responding to 2013 Holberg Prize winner Bruno Latour’s Gifford Lectures has now been scheduled. Information is as follows. QUERYING NATURAL RELIGION: IMMANENCE, GAIA, & THE PARLIAMENT OF LIVELY THINGS
Shaviro interview
Posted in Academe, Philosophy, tagged Shaviro, Simondon, tenure, Whitehead on February 23, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
A few cousin blogs have already mentioned Figure/Ground’s interview with Steven Shaviro, which I recommend for those interested in Whitehead, speculative realism, media theory, and other themes explored on this blog. Shaviro has insightful things to say about Isabelle Stengers’ role in reviving an interest in Whitehead, Gilbert Simondon and his (and Whitehead’s) relevance for […]
Publishers: from sublime to ridiculous
Posted in Academe, tagged academic publishing, publishers on February 8, 2013 | 2 Comments »
Brian Leiter is sharing the results of a survey on his blog to see which academic publishers are considered “best” in his field of philosophy. I find surveys like this useful — at least when carried out somewhat scientifically and systematically (which Leiter’s isn’t and doesn’t claim to be) — and I think these particular […]
The state of academic publishing (RIP, Aaron Swartz)
Posted in Academe, tagged Aaron Swartz, academic publishing, open access on January 16, 2013 | 3 Comments »
A few days after Aaron Swartz’s suicide — in part triggered by the prospect of a 35-year prison sentence for making a big stash of scholarly journal articles available to the public for free (!) — it is appropriate to think about what is wrong with the state of academic publishing today. Here’s a for […]
Thinking out loud…
Posted in Academe, tagged Academe on November 9, 2012 | 3 Comments »
As I prepare to teach a course in the spring called “Media Ecologies and Cultural Politics,” I’m weighing out the benefits and risks of opening the course to an online audience. This would involve sharing the syllabus online (though not the readings themselves, which would have to be purchased or “found” elsewhere) and moving some […]
Tenure/promotion tip: Counting citations & impact factors
Posted in Academe, tagged bibliometrics on October 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
When applying for a promotion — which generally means applying for Associate Professor status “with tenure,” or applying for Full Professor (the top of the heap) — an academic must use any tactics available to make a case for the value of his or her scholarly work. In the good old days, at most institutions, […]
Earthset?
Posted in Academe on August 7, 2012 | 4 Comments »
It’s high time for an update here… I’m in Malibu for Nature and the Popular Imagination (conference program here), where I’ll be giving a keynote on “The Age of the World Motion Picture.” I blogged about this part of the California coast the last time I was out here, and my thoughts there have worked […]
Panpsychism in the news?
Posted in Academe, Philosophy, tagged Antonioni, panpsychism, Skrbina on May 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
No, not really… But the Chronicle of Higher Ed has an interesting piece on leading panpsychist philosopher David Skrbina called The Unabomber’s Pen Pal. It turns out that Skrbina has been corresponding with Ted Kaczynski as part of his study of the philosophy of technology.
NT11: Post-Non-Human Turn(over)
Posted in Academe, Philosophy, tagged Nonhuman Turn on May 6, 2012 | 14 Comments »
With just enough distance to sense that I miss it already (in a brain-body hangover kind of way), but not enough for this to be taken too seriously, I offer some morning-after thoughts on the Nonhuman Turn conference. 1. It was a tremendous gathering of forces, of people doing valuable work with ideas, with knowledge-building […]