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Media hygiene 101

Posted in ..., tagged clickbait, digital culture, Ecologies of the Moving Image, fake news, filter bubbles, information war, media, media ecology, media hygiene, media theory, mediasphere, social media on July 2, 2017 | 2 Comments »

My book Ecologies of the Moving Image provides some suggestions into how we can become better consumers and co-producers of media. But these suggestions come couched within a 400-page treatise of media (and environmental) philosophy that includes a history of cinema, analyses of various films, and much else. While the focus there is on cinema and […]

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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 […]

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Kyїv, Ukraine

Posted in ..., tagged Chernobyl, Kiev, Kyiv, Slavic, Ukraine on October 17, 2016 | 1 Comment »

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 […]

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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.)

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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 […]

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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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Foucault quote quiz

Posted in ..., tagged Foucault on March 20, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

Quick quiz: What U.S. city did Michel Foucault pen these words about?

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Visiting Antioch

Posted in ... on June 23, 2014 | 1 Comment »

I’ll be the guest speaker at the Environmental Studies colloquium at the Antioch University New England Graduate School tomorrow. Title of my talk: “Culturing Nature: Ecology, Gaia, and the Parliament of Lively Things.”

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Making the news

Posted in ... on April 15, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

Since I’ve begun paying attention to web sites about the ongoing events in Ukraine, I’ve noticed how similar Russian web trolls are to climate denialist trolls. Both seem to operate on an industrial scale. Trolling is one way of fabricating news. Acting is another. Here are some priceless encounters with news fabrication.

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SCMS Media & Environment group

Posted in ..., EcoCulture, MediaSpace, tagged cinema, film, media on March 23, 2014 | 1 Comment »

The Media and Environment Scholarly Interest Group just won the prize for best attended business meeting at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Or so we were informed by the SCMS interest group liaison present at the meeting. This year’s SCMS featured what to my mind was by far the largest assemblage of panels and papers […]

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Rethinking the ‘three ecologies’

Posted in ..., tagged ecocriticism, Ecologies of the Moving Image, Guattari, music, Peirce, three ecologies, visual art on March 8, 2014 | 10 Comments »

Or, process-relational ecocriticism 2.0 Two of the courses I’m currently teaching — the intermediate-level “Environmental Literature, Art, and Media” and the senior-level “The Culture of Nature” — require introducing an eco-critical framework appropriate to a wide range of artistic forms, from literature to visual art, music, film and new media. The process-relational framework developed in […]

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