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Drone ontology, part 2: Ukrainian drones & techno-fossil imperialism

Posted in Uncategorized on October 11, 2026 | 4 Comments »

It’s been a couple of years since I posted on the topic of “drone ontology,” in a piece that was intended to be followed up soon after (“Drone ontology, part 1“). The Russo-Ukrainian war has since taken my thoughts on drones in a somewhat different direction. “Part 2,” therefore, focuses on what drones are doing […]

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AI and the (more-than-) humanities

Posted in Uncategorized on September 19, 2026 | Leave a Comment »

“AI and/versus the Humanities” is the unofficial title of a course I’m teaching right now — two courses actually, one at the grad (postgrad) level and one upper-level undergrad — and I’m finding that it’s nearly impossible to keep up with the news on all things AI: “frontier model” AI agents and their shenanigans, the […]

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Process into reality: 10 years, or 100

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on July 7, 2026 | Leave a Comment »

Ten years ago, I wrote about Alfred North Whitehead’s time spent at Caspian Lake in Greensboro, Vermont. It was there that, according to his biographer Victor Lowe, “Whitehead’s metaphysical system was created and his magnum opus, later named Process and Reality, was shaped.” In a follow-up note, I noted the exact place where he stayed and […]

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Chornobyl @ 40 & upcoming talks

Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2026 | Leave a Comment »

Cross-posted from UKR-TAZ. Ukrainian Review has published a special issue on “Legacies of Chornobyl” that includes a fascinating interview with historian Serhii Plokhy (who seems to be writing at the incredible rate of a book a year) alongside several articles on the muliple dimensions of the accident and its impacts. My own piece in the […]

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Announcing Terrestri(e)alism

Posted in Uncategorized on December 8, 2025 | 2 Comments »

So I’ve started a Substack newsletter. It’s called “Terrestri(e)alism.” It isn’t meant to replace Immanence, though there will be overlaps and we’ll see how things develop. The reasons to go to Substack are multiple. It’s a thriving media ecosystem that’s both reader- and writer-friendly. Some of my favorite writers commenting astutely on today’s world are […]

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R.I.P., Joanna Macy

Posted in Spirit matter, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on July 21, 2025 | Comments Off on R.I.P., Joanna Macy

Joanna Macy, who passed away at age 96 a couple of days ago, was a profound inspiration to many in the environmental activist world. Among other things, she taught us that “environmentalism” was about dedication to the world around us and the relations that constitute it, that it begins from the deep experience of concern […]

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The New Lives of Images: reader’s guide

Posted in Uncategorized on June 25, 2025 | Comments Off on The New Lives of Images: reader’s guide

I created a (post-publication) “reader’s guide” for my last monograph, because it was really three (short) books in one and I didn’t think all readers would be equally interested in all three of them, so I figured a road-map would be helpful. My new book, The New Lives of Images, which Francesco Casetti rightly calls […]

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CFP: The Life-Cycle of Moving Images

Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2025 | Comments Off on CFP: The Life-Cycle of Moving Images

The deadline is coming soon; please write to me if you need more time. Call for Chapter Proposals: The Life-Cycle of Moving Images: Ecological Entanglements from Conception to Consumption and Beyond We invite contributions for a forthcoming edited volume entitled The Life-Cycle of Moving Images: Ecological Entanglements from Conception to Consumption and Beyond, edited by […]

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The globality of “Hands Off!”

Posted in Uncategorized on April 6, 2025 | Comments Off on The globality of “Hands Off!”

The best context for thinking of yesterday’s “Hands Off!” protests, held across the United States and in cities around the world, is the one Rebecca Solnit gets at in her post of this morning on Meditations in an Emergency. It is the global context described here: “Right now Ukrainians are fighting for their freedom; Bangladeshis […]

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Abenaki update, updated

Posted in Uncategorized on May 7, 2024 | 1 Comment »

The article “Indigenous identity & Vermont, an update” has been updated with some new information and several new links. Click here (or on the image below) to read that article.

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Indigenous sovereignty event at UVM

Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2023 | 3 Comments »

Sharing info on tomorrow’s University of Vermont event on “Indigenous Sovereignty, Race-Shifting, and University Responsibility,” which I am honored to facilitate. The speakers include Kim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Dakota/University of Alberta), Chris Anderson (Métis/University of Alberta), and Brenda Macdougall (Métis/University of Ottawa), with a response from Darren Ranco (Penobscot/University of Maine Orono). The event is […]

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The ecology of spacetime

Posted in Uncategorized on September 7, 2022 | Comments Off on The ecology of spacetime

Physicists tell us that spacetime is a unity, or at least a singular continuum or “manifold.” But those of us who inhabit it experience it in two distinct dimensions: extension, which we call “space,” and duration, which we call “time.” Extension enables our encounter with difference; duration, with change. (As an aside: physicists conventionally speak […]

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