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More on communism (vision & history)

Posted in Academe, Politics on March 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Following up from the last post… Part of Jodi Dean‘s response to her critics was this paragraph: Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of communism is its capacity to return, throughout history, as an aspiration, even in the face of counter revolution, active hostility, defeat, war, etc. Communism is irreducible to the conflicts of the 20th […]

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The anthro(polo)(blogo)sphere

Posted in Academe, Blog stuff, tagged , on March 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Having looked at the debate among critical geographers over blogging and social media (here, here, and here), let’s look at another, adjacent discipline: anthropology. No work necessary: Ryan Anderson’s latest post at Ethnographix does it for us. Anthropologists,  Anderson writes, have been “slow to find their way into the vastness that is the internet.” Fortunately, […]

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The flight of the bumbleblog

Posted in Academe, Blog stuff, Politics, tagged , , , , , on March 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

By Jon Cloke Loughborough University geographer Jon Cloke shared this piece with the Crit-Geog-Forum in response to the recent discussion about blogs and social media (see here for more on that). Jon’s been kind enough to allow me to share it on Immanence. I think it provocatively gets at the larger picture in which blogs […]

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Why blog (reprise)

Posted in Academe, Blog stuff on March 4, 2011 | 10 Comments »

Stu Elden has been posting about a debate debate on the Critical Geography listserv over the virtues and pitfalls of blogging, and of using blogs, Twitter, and other social media as research tools and data. I’ve been trying to follow that debate, at least to the extent that I’ve been able to follow anything on […]

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s(S)peculative r(R)ealism & philosophy-as-life

Posted in Academe, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , on February 27, 2011 | 7 Comments »

It’s nice to see Speculative Realism capturing the attention of SF writer and all-round idea impresario Bruce Sterling – see his Speculative Realism as “philosophy fiction.” As a long-time SF lover, the idea of “philosophy fiction” has always appealed to me. Some of the best writing in the genre has been profoundly metaphysical, which is […]

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Here & there (or democracy is coming, sort of)

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, Music & soundscape, Politics, Visual culture on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

To the USA, perhaps… But mostly neither here nor there… There’s an interesting flare-up occurring over Moammar Gaddafi’s son Saif’s Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, involving respected political theorists David Held and Benjamin Barber, among others. (See Eric Schliesser for more.) The issues it raises are as old as the oldest profession: universities’ […]

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Zoosemiotics & Animal Representations

Posted in Academe on January 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The Zoosemiotics and Animal Representations conference in Tartu (the leading center for biosemiotics research) promises to be a good one. Plenary speakers include Jesper Hoffmeyer (one of the leaders of the field), ecophilosopher and musician David Rothenberg, postcolonial ecocritic Graham Huggan, and philosopher of science Colin Allen. The deadline for abstracts has passed. Two publications […]

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Environmental Humanities series update

Posted in Academe on January 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Consider the Wilfrid Laurier University Press Environmental Humanities Series for your next manuscript… The new series poster is here. The Environmental Humanities Series features research that adopts and adapts the methods of the humanities to clarify the cultural meanings associated with environmental debate. The scope of the series is broad. Film, literature, television, Web-based media, […]

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AESS Confronting Complexity conference

Posted in Academe on January 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I really should be promoting this more than I have, since my colleagues are working hard at organizing it. The theme lends itself well to the kinds of topics discussed on this blog, and the association is very interdisciplinary, spanning across the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. It would be great to […]

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The science gene

Posted in Academe, Uncategorized on December 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Pretty funny, if you haven’t seen it yet… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M-vnmejwXo?fs=1&hl=en_US H/t to Tom Cheetham.

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those potent French narcotics…

Posted in Academe, tagged , , on November 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Himanshu at Doxic Shock shares a couple of great Latourisms… The details may be past their expiry dates (the generalities less so), but they’re still pretty funny.* For a French person, saying that facts are constructed is a banality. Relativism is like an infantile disease: for us, who contract it in our high school philosophy […]

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U of Alexandria hits the big time?

Posted in Academe on November 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »

When I first heard that an Egyptian university placed fourth worldwide in scholarly productivity, and that it was due to the work of a single scholar, I couldn’t help thinking of Graham Harman churning out brilliant philosophical tomes out of American University in Cairo… Turns out this guy beats Graham handily in quantity and — […]

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