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Wasting Nature: Ecocriticism & Photography

Posted in Academe, Visual culture, tagged on August 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Photography & Culture is calling for submission proposals for a special issue on ecocriticism and photography. See further details here. Henry Fox Talbot famously described photography as the “pencil of nature.” Although this metaphor refers to photography’s special relationship to the real, to the indexicality that makes it suited for naturalist representation, Talbot’s evocative phrase […]

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Performance Research ‘On Ecology’ issue

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, tagged , on August 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

CALL FOR PROPOSALS PERFORMANCE RESEARCH 17.4 (AUGUST 2012): ‘ON ECOLOGY’ PROPOSAL DEADLINE: 1st OCTOBER 2011 (see below for details)

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Environmental Humanities & the Challenge of Multidisciplinarity

Posted in Academe, tagged , on August 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »

CALL FOR PAPERS: Environmental Humanities and the Challenge of Multidisciplinarity A Workshop at the 13th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, “The Ethical Challenge of Multidisciplinarity: Reconciling ‘The Three Narratives’—Art, Science, and Philosophy” University of Cyprus, Nicosia July 2 – 6, 2012

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The dharma of file sharing

Posted in Academe, tagged , , , , , on July 8, 2011 | 5 Comments »

The same issues I have blogged about in relation to academic file sharing site aaaaarg.org have been (predictably) arising elsewhere, including most recently — and a little less predictably — in the world of online Buddhism. This particular discussion got started by an announcement at Buddha Torrents that they have been asked (rather politely) to […]

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Advice for environmental interdisciplinarians

Posted in Academe, tagged , , , on June 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The first issue of the new Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences is out and available here. The JESS is the journal of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, which is meeting this week at the University of Vermont in Burlington (where I live and work, so I’ll be there). The first issue includes […]

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The state of higher ed

Posted in Academe, tagged , on June 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a good article by Tom Lutz on the state of declining education in this country. While the University of California system is being hit particularly hard, the trends are the same at public institutions everywhere, including here at the University of Vermont (class sizes increasing, faculty positions not being […]

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Spring sa(i)ling

Posted in Academe on April 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Both Oxford and Indiana university presses are having their annual spring sales. Among other things, my own Claiming Sacred Ground is selling at Indiana for $12. Also of possible interest to readers of this blog, at Indiana, are Jesper Hoffmeyer’s Signs of Meaning in the Universe, Foltz and Frodeman’s Rethinking Nature, and bunches of books […]

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WI Republicans v. Cronon: update

Posted in Academe, Politics on April 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

UW Madison has done an exemplary job responding to the Wisconsin Republican Party’s efforts to intimidate eminent environmental historian William Cronon. The two documents, by the university’s legal counsel and by chancellor Biddy Martin, are well worth reading and are available on Cronon’s blog. While many of the legalities are specific to Wisconsin, the principles […]

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Cronon, Chomsky/Foucault, & public reason

Posted in Academe, Blog stuff, Media ecology, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , on March 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The Bill Cronon-Wisconsin Republican party tangle is making me — and many others, judging by the responses I’ve seen on academic listservs — think a little more deeply about how we use our e-mail addresses. Like many, I’m troubled by the possibility that someone could ask to see my e-mail correspondence on any old topic. […]

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Scholar goes citizen goes viral

Posted in Academe, Media ecology, Politics on March 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The story of the Wisconsin Republican Party vs. environmental historian Bill Cronon makes for a rare example of a single academic’s blogging activism (blogtivism, to use that ugly word) going viral. You’ve probably heard the basic outline of what’s happened already: Cronon became interested in finding out who was behind the controversial legislation crafted by […]

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Beyond blogs… to where?

Posted in Academe, Blog stuff, tagged , , , on March 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Ian Bogost throws out a challenge to us (bloggers) all: How should blogs evolve? What kinds of media do we want for our thinking, writing, debating, communicating? In other words, rather than celebrating what blogs allow us to do, or lament the knee-jerk negativity they still elicit in some (notably, academic) circles, and rather than […]

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cfp: Int’l Assoc. for Environmental Philosophy

Posted in Academe, Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , on March 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »

The IAEP picks a nice image for this conference… Spirit tracks on Mars

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