In a week of startling developments, some things still sound like they’re from The Onion. Or at least Harper’s Findings. They aren’t. In a week of police riots capping decades of ethnic violence in a country torn asunder by authoritarianism, a dismal economy, and plague, police responding to a bee sting were attacked by a […]
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The week in a minute
Posted in ..., tagged America, events, findings, George Floyd, gleanings, news, police brutality, U.S. politics on June 7, 2020 | 3 Comments »
Earth Day dream, with St. Leonard of Westmount
Posted in ..., tagged communal apartments, dreams, Earth Day, Irving Layton, Kiev, Kyiv, Leonard Cohen, Pope Francis, Radio Moscow, Radio Moskva, St. Leonard of Westmount, Ukraine, Vydubychi monastery on April 22, 2020 | 1 Comment »
I dreamt that Leonard Cohen appeared by my bedside. He smiled and reassured me that things will be alright: “They will all have been beautiful in the end.” I wanted to ask him something, but wasn’t sure what. Then he was gone. The radio (it was Radio Moskva, from back when I spent a fall […]
The urgency of slowing down and stopping
Posted in ... on April 18, 2019 | 4 Comments »
Like many, I’ve been finding it difficult not to feel an upwelling of anxiety as the scope and scale of the climate emergency has become more and more obvious, as Trump-style political (non-)responses — precisely the kinds of responses that will only make things much worse — have scaled themselves up around the world, and […]
Feverish world, or ecotopia now?
Posted in ..., tagged activism, Burlington Vermont, eco-arts, EcoCultureLab, ecotopia, environmental humanities, Feverish World, University of Vermont on November 21, 2018 | 6 Comments »
Feverish World (2016-2068): Arts and Sciences of Collective Survival was premised on the acknowledgment that the coming decades will be feverish in more ways than one — climatologically, politically, economically, militarily — and that the arts will be essential in helping us come to terms with that feverishness. In my comments opening the symposium, I laid […]
Lyme & beyond: a bibliographic resource
Posted in ..., MediaSpace, tagged alternative health, anomalistics, Anthropocene, bugs, chronic Lyme disease, complementary health, ecological syndrome, fear of nature, global hum, health scares, hysteria, infectious diseases, institutional trust, Lyme disease, Lyme wars, medical establishment, medicine, modern syndromes, public health wars, scientific controversies, uncertainty on July 31, 2018 | 4 Comments »
Last updated on November 11, 2018 Immanence sometimes dips into areas of controversial or “boundary” science, which means areas of science whose interpretation is both publicly and scientifically contentious. While I don’t consider climate science to be all that scientifically controversial (though it is certainly politically controversial), and the general topics of “fake news,” “information war,” and […]
Fugitive radioactivity
Posted in ..., tagged Carpathians, Eastern Europe, fugitives, Nosferatu, radioactivity, Russia, Rusyns, Ruthenia on November 12, 2017 | 18 Comments »
The Washington Post reports that “Ruthenium-106, named after Russia” has been wafting all across Europe. Two quick observations here.
Offsetting the New York Times
Posted in ..., tagged air travel, carbon accounting, carbon offsets, indulgences, New York Times on October 26, 2016 | 2 Comments »
A friend shared a post about a seemingly unbelievable “opportunity” for the world’s ultra-rich — to “circle the globe on an inspiring and informative journey by private jet, created by The New York Times in collaboration with luxury travel pioneers Abercrombie & Kent.” On this 26-day itinerary, you’d be taken “beneath the surface of some […]
Kyїv, Ukraine
Posted in ..., tagged Chernobyl, Kiev, Kyiv, Slavic, Ukraine on October 17, 2016 | 2 Comments »
Since my review of urban geographer Roman Cybriwsky’s excellent book on Kyїv, Ukraine, has not been published yet by the journal I wrote it for, though a second edition has already come out, and since I’ll be visiting the city in a couple of days, I thought I might as well share that review, here. (I’ll […]
Indiana sale
Posted in ... 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.)
Glass half full…
Posted in ... 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 […]
Verbing the title
Posted in ..., tagged words 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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