In Why Environmental Understanding, or “Framing,” Matters, published today on the Huffington Post (and on AlterNet), liberal framing guru George Lakoff provides a useful critique of a forthcoming EcoAmerica report on the framing of environmental and climate change issues. While his conclusions are perceptive and make the article a valuable read — I’ll get to […]
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Lakoff’s environmental frames vs. Connolly’s resonance machines
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged affect, Connolly, ecomedia, economy, ecopolitics, ecotheory, framing, Lakoff, neuropolitics on May 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »
philosophy vs. ecoculture
Posted in Blog stuff, Philosophy on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Maybe part of the reason I’ve been writing more on philosophical themes here than on ‘ecoculture’ is the simple fact that I’m surrounded by environmental themes on a daily basis – in my teaching, reading and writing, in discussions with students and colleagues. But not a single one of my colleagues here is a philosopher […]
Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged analytical philosophy, Bergson, complexity, Continental philosophy, Deleuze, Whitehead on April 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Keith Robinson’s introduction to the collection Deleuze, Whitehead, Bergson: Rhizomatic Connections, just published by Palgrave Macmillan, provides an excellent and much needed overview of the reception histories of these three thinkers. Robinson’s contextualization of them within the analytical and continental philosophical traditions makes clear why each has been marginalized or misunderstood to varying degrees in […]