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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Geoscene
Posted in Uncategorized on February 1, 2014 | 4 Comments »
Ukrainian update
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Politics, revolution, Ukraine 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 […]
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 […]
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.
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and culture, the eco-humanities, the Anthropocene, ontology, critical geography, Buddhism, Zizek, Peirce, nationalism, withdrawn objects, and more.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 […]
Digital environmental humanities
Posted in Academe, Uncategorized, tagged digital humanities, environmental humanities 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 […]
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.
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. […]
Dark earth days
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Earth Day, end times 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 […]
New ecocriticism book series
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ecocriticism 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 […]
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.)
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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