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Conversations with chatbots

Posted in Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , on September 4, 2023 | Leave a Comment »

Like a lot of university faculty these days, I’ve been thinking about, and testing out, chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. In fact, I’ve been quizzing them on various things. They have answered some of my questions with general-consensus knowledge. For instance, on whether or not it’s too late for humanity to successfully respond […]

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Symbiocene@Ruigoord.NL

Posted in Anthropocene, Cultural politics, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 27, 2023 | 1 Comment »

Two things to consider before your morning coffee. 1) We are living through a Holocene collapse event,* when the nearly 12,000 year old regime of relative climate stability, the “comfort zone” for most of what we know as human civilization, is beginning to tear to shreds. (Here’s just one of the shreds from yesterday’s news.) […]

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The global precariat and its enemies

Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries on December 3, 2022 | 2 Comments »

To put things in the simplest terms possible: The global climate precariat — all of those whose lives and communities are endangered by the storms, floods, droughts, hurricanes, wildfires, and wars produced or intensified by a destabilizing global climate system — are a vast segment of humanity. It is growing daily. Together, the global precariat […]

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What does it mean to plant a tree (or a trillion)?

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Eco-theory, tagged , , , , , , , on July 20, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

Here, for instance, in Brazil’s Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Veadeiros? Zach St. George’s New York Times article “Can Planting a Trillion New Trees Save the World?” is an excellent overview of the reality of tree planting versus the ideal of it. Among the reality-checks:

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Ways to inhabit the world

Posted in Eco-theory, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 24, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

The following post elaborates on some comments I made this week at the Ritual Creativity conference at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Deep thanks to conference organizers Katri Ratia and François Gauthier for inviting me to what turned out to be an immensely rewarding event, and to my co-panelists Graham Harvey, Sarah Pike, and Susannah […]

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Thoughts on an equinox

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , on September 22, 2021 | 1 Comment »

Marking the passage of the seasons from summer to winter and back again is something people have done for millennia. Seasons are reliable — anyone living outside the equatorial band will continue to have colder and warmer seasons, probably for the rest of our lives. But many of us are realizing that larger cycles may […]

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No surprises

Posted in Blog stuff, Climate change, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 7, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

I am an academic who researches, writes, and teaches about the human relationship with the ecological environment within which we live and on which we depend. I recognize that that relationship is deeply troubled, and I want to be working on untroubling it. Politics — the shaping and implementation of policy to steer collective and […]

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Thought exercise (democracy & reality)

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , on September 11, 2020 | 1 Comment »

See how far you follow my line of thinking here: (1) Democracy (institutional and not just majoritarian/representational) is better than the alternatives. Let’s live with it (and defend it). (2) Democracy as practiced in the U.S. today is partial, compromised, and somewhat muzzled, but still better than the alternatives. Let’s fix it up. (3) Democracy, […]

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The machine has stopped: what now?

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 19, 2020 | 5 Comments »

The “reopening” of the world’s economies, locally and nationally, piece by piece, after the sudden and massive stoppage of the entire economic system, is raising important questions about whether the system can be put back into motion selectively and into a more viable direction than it had been moving beforehand. Some observers have suggested, optimistically, […]

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Pandemic epistemology

Posted in Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 30, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

One of the silver linings about the coronavirus pandemic is that it has made some people, and even institutions, more generous (at least temporarily). Among them are popular and academic journals that have removed their paywalls and offered their publications for free. (I shared one of my own articles in that category yesterday. The irony, […]

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More on pandemic politics & future scenarios

Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , on April 6, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

There’s a lot of interesting thinking going on in response to the coronavirus pandemic and how it will “change everything.” Here’s the beginning of a curated sampling. It takes for granted that there will be suffering, a lot of it, unequally distributed and with a preponderance of it coming down on first responders and low-wage, […]

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Pandemic politics: on disaster capitalism, socialism, and environmentalism

Posted in Academe, Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 30, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

This was originally posted over a week ago, but then taken down by request as it was being considered for publication elsewhere (but not published there). A shorter version of it appeared yesterday at VT Digger. The school I work for, the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, recently undertook a […]

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