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Society & Space interview

Posted in Cinema, Uncategorized on November 8, 2013 | 3 Comments »

Society and Space has posted a conversation/interview that Harlan Morehouse carried out with me in early October. While it’s focused on Ecologies of the Moving Image, we talk about plenty of other things — nature and culture, the eco-humanities, the Anthropocene, ontology, critical geography, Buddhism, Zizek, Peirce, nationalism, withdrawn objects, and more. And plenty of […]

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Digital environmental humanities

Posted in Academe, Uncategorized, tagged , 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 […]

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Kochelsee

Posted in Uncategorized on July 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

I’m at the Vollmar Akademie by Lake Kochel in the Bavarian Alps, just a short train ride beyond the last S-Bahn station south of Munich, for “Studying the Environment – Working Across Disciplines.” The Rachel Carson Center has got a bunch of us together here to hammer out some ideas for inter/trans/disciplinarity in environmental research.

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We’ve hit 400*

Posted in Uncategorized on May 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

More here and here and here. We haven’t been there in (a) 55 years (b) 800,000  years (c) 3 million years (d) all of the above Can someone please turn down the thermostat? *The exclamation mark that was originally in this title bothered me; seemed too celebratory (hardly the intent). So I’ve trashed it.   […]

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Dark earth days

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on April 22, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Composing a worthwhile Earth Day post takes more energy than I have today, so instead I’ll link to Jeremy’s Earth post at Struggle Forever!  It articulates a thought I often feel on this day (surrounded as I get by students eager to maternalize the planet) but in a way that resonates with the weirdness of […]

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New ecocriticism book series

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on April 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

The list of advisors for this new book series in Ecocritical Theory and Practice shows just how the field of ecocriticism has internationalized over the last two decades. I’m pleased to be part of it. Ecocritical Theory and Practice Book Series Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group  Ecocritical Theory and Practice highlights innovative scholarship […]

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Talking in Amsterdam

Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

I’ll be giving the following talk next Wednesday, February 6, at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. It’s part of the series Where Are We Going, Walt Whitman? An Ecosophical Roadmap for Artists and Other Futurists. (The series looks incredible. I wish I could be there for all the other talks and events.)

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Cruising

Posted in Uncategorized on May 24, 2012 | 3 Comments »

When your long-retired parents invite you (and family and sibs) on a Mediterranean cruise, do you (a) jump at the opportunity, (b) graciously accept (realizing, for instance, that this may be one of the last opportunities for us to reconnect with the full nuclear-plus family, or what’s left of it), (c) bite your tongue (knowing, […]

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Keywords: the answer…

Posted in Uncategorized on May 4, 2012 | 3 Comments »

The most popular word in the paper titles of this conference is… Object (10 mentions) Runner-up: Media/mediation (9) Honorable mention: Nonhuman; Affect/affectivity/affection; Animal(s)/animality (4 each). Figure that… Yet, judging by yesterday’s plenaries, objects are under fire.  

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Keywords

Posted in Uncategorized on May 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Question: What is the most popular word in conference paper titles? First correct guess wins a prize. (Not sure what the prize is yet… but it will probably consist of letters.)

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Turning nonhuman

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on May 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I’m on my way to Milwaukee for the Nonhuman Turn conference. I will do my best to live-blog from it, though that will depend on the technology the U of Wisconsin Milwaukee offers conference participants. Stay tuned.

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Airport delay bliss

Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

We’ve hardly had any snowstorms this winter in Vermont, and I’d almost started believing we’d have springlike weather right through to, well, spring. So somehow it’s comforting to sit at an airport waiting for a delayed flight in the midst of a New England snowstorm. A two-hour drive across Vermont today took me through rain, […]

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