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welcome to immanence 2.0

Posted in Blog stuff, Uncategorized on December 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »

This is the new, improved version of Immanence. If you came here from the old one and had been a feed subscriber, blogroll linker, or just a regular reader of that one, I would love it if you’d do the same here. I’ll still be tweaking things here and there for a while as I […]

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gleanings

Posted in Climate change, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on December 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Scientists found that Asian and American brains respond completely differently when faced with images of dominance and submission, and when evaluating character traits of themselves as opposed to other people. Asians and Americans gathered with other world leaders to fiddle at a Mexican resort while buildings burned. [. . .] Graham Harman and Steven Shaviro got ready to slug it out in the middleweight neo-realist philosopher category of the international thought-wrestling society. [. . .]

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realism, or bust

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on September 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Michael at Archive Fire just shared a good quote from Latour on Whitehead, “king of the realists.” Funny thing — I just finished up some comments introducing Whitehead to my ecocinema students… The upshot of those comments is that, according to Whitehead’s attempt to rewire the metaphysics of the western world, there are no things, […]

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Comments policy

Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Due to high spam volume, comments to this blog are now moderated. Comments with a substantive connection to blog posts are welcome. Such comments may not appear immediately, but they will appear once approved. Comments intended to direct readers to commercial sites, or to increase the number of links to such sites, will not be […]

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homecoming

Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

A friend of mine inadvertently reminded me of one of my favorite passages from Mikhail Bakhtin, written, apparently, in his last notebook entry before his death (and published subsequently in Toward a Methodology for the Human Sciences): “There is neither a first nor a last word and there are no limits to the dialogic context […]

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let a thousand objects bloom

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on April 6, 2010 | 15 Comments »

Here’s a quick reply to Levi Bryant’s reply to my post from this morning on objects and relations:

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blog action day

Posted in Uncategorized on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The more blog action, the less the climate will change? Or something like that… I’ve been putting some of these in the Shadow Blog.

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out of the blue (Glen Elder passes away)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on May 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I’m very sad to hear that a friend and colleague, geographer and Africanist Glen Elder, has passed away following a heart attack. Glen was a warmhearted, passionate scholar, former chair of Geography and current Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Vermont. He had just given a captivating performance as master of […]

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free access to ISLE until May 15

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, which has been the leading forum for what’s come to be known as “ecocriticism” over the past 15 years or so, has finally caught up with the times and gone digital, thanks to the deal it arranged with its new publisher, Oxford. To celebrate the transition, all issues […]

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book list

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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rigpa meets anima…

Posted in Eco-theory, Uncategorized, tagged , , on December 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Rigpa is the state of compassionate awareness that, according to Mahayana Buddhism, is the innermost nature of the mind. It is the primordial, nondual mind that shines through when unobscured; intelligent, cognizant, awake. “Empty in essence, cognizant in nature, unconfined in capacity.” Recognizing and dwelling within rigpa is the goal of Dzogchen practice (a kind […]

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