McKenzie Wark has written a very provocative piece on the geopolitics of the Anthropocene, or what he calls “The Geopolitics of Hibernation.”
A quote: Continue Reading »
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Politics | Tagged Anthropocene, geopolitics, refugee crisis, Wark | 2 Comments »
I’ll be giving this talk at the University of Kansas on Thursday. It’ll be exactly two days after the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. And 16 days before the 30th anniversary of Mikhail Gorbachev’s speech about the accident. Pravda (Truth) first reported in any detail on the accident on May 6 and 7.
The future of the Soviet Union hinged on that 18 day period between the accident and the Politburo’s admissions about it. If there was a single event that precipitated the USSR’s unraveling, it was the Chernobyl accident. Without the accident, its aftermath — Continue Reading »
Posted in Anthropocene | Tagged Anthropocene, anti-nuclear movement, biopolitics, Chernobyl, Cold War, nuclear power, Stalker, Tarkovsky, Ukraine, USSR | 4 Comments »
I’ve been using the metaphor of the Sustainability Bottleneck in my teaching, but another one that is more immediately graspable is The Bubble.
Two things landed in my in-box this morning that testify to this (but that’s a pretty daily occurrence, e.g., see this, this, this, this, this, this, and this, all from the past week). One of these is a New York Times op-ed by a meteoreological business guy, called “A New Dark Age Looms.” The second is an interesting piece by Australian eco-anarchist farmer Glenn Albrecht called “Exiting the Anthropocene and Entering the Symbiocene” (which originally appeared on his blog in December).
Where they concur is that, as scientists have been increasingly predicting, we can expect a Coming Unraveling — an unraveling of the “established patterns and regularity of Holocene phenology” of the past 12,000 years, followed by a “new abnormal” in which
Posted in Anthropocene, Manifestos & auguries | Tagged Anthropocene, bubbleology, climate science, dark age, metaphors, sustainability bottleneck, Symbiocene | 6 Comments »
At long last, Shane Denson’s and Julia Leyda’s anthology Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film has come out in Catherine Grant’s Reframe Books open-access series.
This mammoth anthology features some of the leading theorists of our cinematic/media moment including Lev Manovich, Steven Shaviro, Richard Grusin, Vivian Sobchack, Francesco Casetti, Patricia Pisters, Mark Hansen, and many others. It includes an entire section on “Ecologies of Post-Cinema” (which includes my chapter on cinema “in & beyond the Capitalocene”), as well as several rich dialogues on digital and post-cinematic politics.
Posted in Cinema | Tagged digital culture, ecocinema, ecomedia, post-cinema | 6 Comments »
Some books I’ve recently received and/or am currently reading… If you’d like to review any of them for this blog, let me know. And if there are others published in the last year that should be on this list, let me know that too (in the comments).
Posted in Academe | Tagged books, readings | 2 Comments »
My book Claiming Sacred Ground is available for half price from the publisher, Indiana University Press, all this week.
But then you can always get a copy from me for at least as good a deal as that, as I still have some kicking around at the office.
(Here’s how it relates to my later work.)
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I shared my previous post on the Peirce-L discussion forum and received about 16 responses in five days. The following is an edited version of the summary response I sent to the forum regarding the main comments presented there. I’ve eliminated names or substituted them with single initials where that seemed warranted.
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought | Tagged categories, EMI, Peirce | 9 Comments »
I’ve been struggling with how my triadic framework for interpreting art works relates to C. S. Peirce’s categories.
When I first developed my triadism (fleshed out in Ecologies of the Moving Image) into the non-Peircian terms of materiality, experience, and representation — which I did in the context of teaching a course on the environmental arts — I loosely considered the first of these to be analogous to Peircian firstness, the second to secondness, and the third to thirdness.
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought | Tagged categories, ecocriticism, EMI, film-philosophy, Guattari, Peirce, three ecologies, triadism, Whitehead | 4 Comments »
Vegetarianism has been part of my identity for the last 25 years (thanks to arguments like this one and this one), but I’ve been increasingly recognizing the term’s limits.
Posted in Eco-culture | Tagged diets, food ethics, freeganism, locavorism, mammalism, mammals, veganism, vegetarianism | 26 Comments »
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