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The many ecologies of Laudato Si

Posted in Climate change, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged , , , on June 18, 2015 | 9 Comments »

Now that Laudato Si, the Papal Encyclical “On Care for Our Common Home,” is available for all to read, the punditocracy can debate it to their hearts’ content. As the most far-reaching statement by the single largest (relatively united) religious denomination on the planet, it is likely to have an immense impact on global conversations around […]

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Primer

Posted in on June 10, 2014 | 3 Comments »

Here is a thematic primer to this blog, running from the more theoretical to the more down-to-earth topics it covers. Click on the links to go to the articles. (And another way to find things is by following the categories.) Post-constructivism & ‘Speculative Realism’ Between Continental & environmental philosophy Imagination & contemporary theory Integralism & […]

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Climate change as a ‘multiple object’

Posted in Climate change, Philosophy on February 8, 2011 | 8 Comments »

The “integralists” have waded into the climate change debate with an impressive looking article entitled An Ontology of Climate Change: Integral Pluralism and the Enactment of Multiple Objects (click for an excerpt). It’s by Sean Esbjorn-Hargens, one half of the duo that authored the mammoth Integral Ecology. (The other half is Heideggerian-turned-Wilberian ecophilosopher Michael Zimmerman, […]

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Process-relational theory primer

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , on November 5, 2010 | 12 Comments »

One of the tasks of this blog, since its inception in late 2008, has been to articulate a theoretical-philosophical perspective that I have come to call “process-relational.” This is a theoretical paradigm and an ontology that takes the basic nature of the world to be that of relational process: that is, it understands the basic […]

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readings

Posted in Academe, Philosophy, tagged , , on February 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »

I’m reading, and being very impressed by, John Protevi’s recent book Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic. The book brings together a lot of recent work on affect with the best of the cognitive sciences (embodied/embedded/distributive/enactive cognition), complexity and nonlinear dynamical systems theories, and a strong grounding in philosophy, from Aristotle to Kant […]

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Nagarjuna & ecophilosophy, pt. 2

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , on November 14, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Continuing from the previous post… “For Buddhism,” Clark writes, “the negative path of the destruction of illusion is inseparably linked to the positive path of an open, awakened, and compassionate response to a living, non-objectifiable reality, the ‘nature that is no nature.’’’

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between continental & environmental philosophy

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on May 30, 2009 | 26 Comments »

Responding to a post on this blog, Kvond, a little while ago, raised the question of the relationship between Arne Naess, originator of “deep ecology,” and Spinoza – which made me think of the interesting if sporadic/uneven/episodic relationships between the main traditions of continental philosophy and environmental thought. A glance at the changing editions of […]

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