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Indiana sale

Posted in Uncategorized on March 14, 2016 | 1 Comment »

My book Claiming Sacred Ground is available for half price from the publisher, Indiana University Press, all this week. But then you can always get a copy from me for at least as good a deal as that, as I still have some kicking around at the office. (Here’s how it relates to my later work.)

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Glass half full…

Posted in Uncategorized on June 8, 2015 | 3 Comments »

Two news bits from the past week or so: (1) The UN has announced that the proportion of people who are chronically undernourished in the world has fallen by nearly half — from 23.3% to 12.9% — over the last 25 years. Only a handful of countries — Haiti, North Korea, Zambia, Namibia, and the Central African Republic […]

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Verbing the title

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on April 22, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

I just noticed, for the first time, how many of my publication titles begin with a verb in present continuous (or progressive) mode: words like claiming, stirring, stoking, opening, orchestrating, coloring, weathering, de/composing, re-examining, teaching… If I include subtitles, I get mapping, theorizing, stalking, collapsing, crafting. And when I add talk and conference paper titles, there’s screening, greening, […]

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Foucault quote quiz

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on March 20, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

Quick quiz: What U.S. city did Michel Foucault pen these words about?

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Visiting Antioch

Posted in Uncategorized on June 23, 2014 | 1 Comment »

I’ll be the guest speaker at the Environmental Studies colloquium at the Antioch University New England Graduate School tomorrow. Title of my talk: “Culturing Nature: Ecology, Gaia, and the Parliament of Lively Things.”

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Making the news

Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

Since I’ve begun paying attention to web sites about the ongoing events in Ukraine, I’ve noticed how similar Russian web trolls are to climate denialist trolls. Both seem to operate on an industrial scale. Trolling is one way of fabricating news. Acting is another. Here are some priceless encounters with news fabrication.    

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SCMS Media & Environment group

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Media ecology, Uncategorized, tagged , on March 23, 2014 | 1 Comment »

The Media and Environment Scholarly Interest Group just won the prize for best attended business meeting at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Or so we were informed by the SCMS interest group liaison present at the meeting. This year’s SCMS featured what to my mind was by far the largest assemblage of panels and papers […]

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Acceleration & the (long?) Now

Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2014 | 1 Comment »

Starting a discussion on these topics here.  

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Geoscene

Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2014 | 4 Comments »

Over at A(S)CENE, we are starting to read Nigel Clark’s Inhuman Nature: Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet as well as the Punctum Books open-access collection Making the Geological Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life. Clark’s book has attracted some very intrigued — and a few rather ecstatic — reviews from geographers and social theorists, including […]

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Ukrainian update

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on January 25, 2014 | 3 Comments »

Regular readers will know of my interest in Ukraine, where I lived for a year as a Canada-USSR Scholar in 1989-90, and where I’ve visited at least ten times since, for varying lengths of time. I’ve been following events unfolding there from afar, and have begun a blog called UKR-TAZ: A Ukrainian Autonomous Zone, which […]

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Anthropocene readings

Posted in Anthropocene, Uncategorized on January 20, 2014 | 1 Comment »

       I’m thinking of making my Spring semester graduate class, “Environment, Science, and Society in the Anthropocene,” into a semi-public seminar series, with a blog where we will share links to readings and videos as well as discussions. (Actual meetings will not be online, but will be open to interested members of the UVM […]

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Happy solstice

Posted in Uncategorized on December 21, 2013 | 1 Comment »

We’re almost at the halfway point of the sun’s life cycle, so let’s enjoy it while it’s here. Happy solstice.   Photograph by Santha Faiia.

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