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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New ecocriticism book series
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ecocriticism on April 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
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, […]
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.
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.)
Turning nonhuman
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Nonhuman Turn 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.
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, […]
Work resuming on the tower
Posted in Uncategorized on January 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Blogging will resume here next week. Meanwhile…
Integral Ecology discussion has begun
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Integral Ecology, integral theory on June 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
… over at Knowledge Ecology. My quick impression from chapter 1 is mixed: a promising start, followed by a sour turn and then something of a rebound.
Our little state capital goes Venice
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Vermont on May 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Hat tip to Cheryl at World of Music, who shares her own slide show here. And this is child’s play compared to the tornadoes and flooding in this country’s midwest.
Young philosophy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged child development, development, infancy on May 7, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Just the facts, Z, just the facts… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xped7A8oecM (from a three-month-old’s perspective) Incidentally, if there’s a single small book I’d recommend on life from this kind of perspective, it’s Daniel Stern’s Diary of a Baby. Stern was a favorite of Felix Guattari’s. That book can be followed up by the more scholarly The Interpersonal World […]
Geniuses ‘r us (vegetarians)
Posted in Uncategorized on February 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Quick, name five genius scientists and inventors… Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison. All vegetarians? Of course. Elephant journal includes five others on its list. How about philosophers and cultural innovators? Pythagoras, Siddhartha Gautama the Buddha, Leo Tolstoy, Marsilio Ficino, Plato by some accounts… See here for a longer list.