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Bandwagocene

Posted in Anthropocene, tagged , , on July 21, 2015 | 3 Comments »

These days, it takes a course release for an academic to keep up with the avalanche of books being published with titles that feature the word “Anthropocene.” To read them would take a sabbatical. Doing anything approximating a “slow read” would require, well, retirement. But that’s no reason not to try. Here’s just a quick sample […]

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“Speculative Ecologies of (Post)Cinema” talk

Posted in Cinema, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 5, 2015 | 2 Comments »

The video of my talk on “Speculative Ecologies of (Post)Cinema: Cinema In and Beyond the Capitalocene,” is now up on Vimeo and at Shane Denson’s web site. It is from the SCMS panel “Post-Cinema and/as Speculative Media Theory,” featuring Steven Shaviro, Patricia Pisters, and Mark Hansen. I discuss the archive, the cloud, the common, the slippery morphing image […]

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4 Noble Truths of Socio-Ecological Suffering

Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-culture, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , on May 1, 2015 | 8 Comments »

Some 2500 years ago, a man named Siddhartha Gotama articulated what have come to be known as the “4 Noble Truths”: the truth of dukkha, or fundamental suffering (that there is a basic unsatisfactoriness to life), the truth of its causes (that it arises from an ignorance and misperception of the nature of things, which are […]

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The Orbis spike

Posted in Anthropocene, tagged , , , , , , on March 24, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

In an article in Nature entitled “Defining the Anthropocene,” geographers and climate scientists Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin provide a new approach to dating this era that focuses on an event they call the “Orbis spike,” a dip in atmospheric CO2 occurring around 1610. Effectively, what their proposal does it to allow geologists to harmonize their work […]

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Sustainability bottleneck (or, No one here gets out alive?)

Posted in Anthropocene, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , on January 22, 2015 | 10 Comments »

Astrophysicist and NPR blogger Adam Frank writes about the “sustainability bottleneck” as the state faced by technological civilizations like ours, which have learned how to “intensively harvest” energy, but not how to sustain themselves through the crisis this harvesting sets off. It turns out there may be millions of planets that give rise to life in our galaxy alone. Frank […]

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Anthropocenic reckoning

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged , , , on January 17, 2015 | 2 Comments »

With environmental and eco-political news in the front pages daily, it’s easy to get back into the swing of regular, even daily, posting after the winter holiday lull. Here’s more on the “dating the ecocrisis” theme… Andy Revkin is reporting that the Anthropocene Working Group has concluded that the middle of the twentieth century makes […]

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Peak wild fish (or, one more of 1000 plateaus)

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , , , on January 14, 2015 | 1 Comment »

Two kinds of historical turning points define our era. The first kind involves the retrospective identification of new forms of enclosure, exploitive intensification, or system derailment. Debates over the beginnings of a recession, or of a war, or — on a larger scale — of the Anthropocene, are about this kind of backdating: how far back do we […]

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Upcoming: ecomusics, climate change culture, etc.

Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged , , , , , , , on September 30, 2014 | 1 Comment »

I am about to travel to Asheville, North Carolina, for the Ecomusics and Ecomusicologies conference, to be held from Thursday through Monday at the University of North Carolina Asheville. The international conference, which has become an annual event (it met previously in Brisbane, Australia, and in New Orleans), brings together theorists and researchers with performers and practitioners. Panels on topics including “musical […]

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Humming the new earth

Posted in Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 10, 2014 | 20 Comments »

[Note: This post has been edited slightly since it was first published, to clarify the difference between sound waves and radio waves. I have also posted several updates in the Comments section of this post, where I present my reconsidered views of what the “Global Hum” may be. I recommend reading those updates after you […]

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Visiting Antioch

Posted in Uncategorized 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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Art & ecology at AESS

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , , on June 13, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

Two quick observations about art and ecology at Welcome to the Anthropocene: 1) I’m impressed with how well art has been integrated into the program, thanks in part to Jennifer Joy‘s work in weaving her own performances with a troupe of local artists and dancers throughout the events. (And how none of it is the cloying kind […]

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Who

Posted in on June 10, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

While it features occasional guests, Immanence is edited and mostly written by me, Adrian Ivakhiv. I’m a professor of environmental thought and cultural studies at the University of Vermont, where I teach, think, research, and write about topics found at the intersections of culture, ecology, identity, media, philosophy, religion, and the arts, and where I coordinate […]

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