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Coming Thursday to news screens near you

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged on June 16, 2015 | 1 Comment »

To have the world’s leading religious figure make a statement like this one — heavily anticipated and already leaked out in draft form — will be a game-changer. And a godsend (literally for some, figurally for most) to the climate justice community — which, after all, should be all of us.

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Anthropocene & equity

Posted in Anthropocene, tagged , , on June 1, 2015 | 5 Comments »

I’ve reported previously on how critics see the “Anthropocene” concept as overgeneralizing from the causal nuances of actual responsibility for climate (and global system) change. In an excellent summary of recent writing on the topic, ecosocialist climate observer Ian Angus answers the question “Does Anthropocene science blame all humanity?” with a definitive “no.” That doesn’t mean that the term […]

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33⅓ Environmental Studies greats (or, a canon, revisited)

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , on April 9, 2015 | 10 Comments »

The following is a significantly revised version of an article I posted to the Indications blog (and etc) five and a half years ago. I was curious to see how much of it still holds (a lot, I think), so I’ve revisited it and expanded its proposed sort-of-canon, in the second part of what follows, into a list of […]

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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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Anthropocene: Too serious for postmodern games

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Philosophy, Science & society, tagged , , , on August 18, 2014 | 6 Comments »

The following is a guest post by Clive Hamilton, professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia. It continues the Immanence series “Debating the Anthropocene.” See here, here, and here for previous articles in the series. (And note that some lengthy comments have been added to the previous post by Jan Zalasiewicz, Kieran […]

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What’s real

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 21, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Conversation overheard between an ambitious grad student and a simpleminded process-relational philosopher . . .         Jake Wanano-Everton:   Sir, where do you draw the line between what’s real and what’s not real?       Prof. Noah Fewthings:   The only things that are real are the moments of experienced reality — drops of experience, let’s […]

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Ecology ~ Film ~ Philosophy

Posted in Media ecology on April 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s what I’m slated to teach this summer, for 3 weeks beginning May 20. Ecology – Film – Philosophy

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The state of academic publishing (RIP, Aaron Swartz)

Posted in Academe, tagged , , on January 16, 2013 | 3 Comments »

A few days after Aaron Swartz’s suicide — in part triggered by the prospect of a 35-year prison sentence for making a big stash of scholarly journal articles available to the public for free (!) — it is appropriate to think about what is wrong with the state of academic publishing today. Here’s a for […]

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Environmental Humanities & the Challenge of Multidisciplinarity

Posted in Academe, tagged , on August 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »

CALL FOR PAPERS: Environmental Humanities and the Challenge of Multidisciplinarity A Workshop at the 13th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, “The Ethical Challenge of Multidisciplinarity: Reconciling ‘The Three Narratives’—Art, Science, and Philosophy” University of Cyprus, Nicosia July 2 – 6, 2012

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Moving Environments, Day 2

Posted in Cinema, tagged , , , on July 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Here are my notes from Day 2 of the Moving Environments workshop in Munich. The same caveats apply as yesterday: they’re hastily typed up and reflect only my own interpretation of what transpired. If any of the participants would prefer not to have their ideas shared in this way, I will be happy to remove […]

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Wilber’s post-metaphysical turn

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , on May 17, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Working through the last decade or so of Wilberian integral theory (which I’m doing in preparation for the upcoming group reading of Integral Ecology) is no small challenge. Ken Wilber’s been an incredibly prolific writer, publishing scores of books over the last 15 years in addition to scattered shorter materials of various kinds, including new […]

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iLAND’s perceptual alchemy

Posted in Eco-culture, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , on March 30, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Some of today’s most important eco-artists — people like Patricia Johanson, Betsy Damon, and others — work on a landscape scale with interdisciplinary groups of participants to render socio-ecological change into aesthetically tangible and artistically significant forms. Experimental dancer and choreographer Jennifer Monson’s work falls into this category as well, though, as dance, it tends […]

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