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Process semiotics, in a nutshell

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , on September 2, 2025 | 2 Comments »

It’s what informs my analysis of images, imagination, and the digital in The New Lives of Images. Here is the three-minute version of it. The universe is a living, dynamic, and responsive universe. It is made not of static objects, but of events — events which elicit other events. Its most basic unit is an […]

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“New Lives” is here

Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , , on August 28, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve just gotten my hands on an advance print copy of The New Lives of Images, and it looks and feels wonderful to hold and handle. I’m quite happy with what Stanford University Press has done with the book — the artwork, the typography, and the entire editorial and publication process was and is commendable. […]

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The letter A and the pronoun I

Posted in Science & society, tagged , , , , , , on August 6, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

I’m organizing a two-day academic retreat focusing on “Generative AI, Techno-authoritarianism, and the Future of the Critical Humanities.” It will take place in late September, partly under the auspices of Simon Fraser University’s Joanne Brown Symposium series on violence and its alternatives. We’re stretching the mandate of that series in that we aren’t focusing directly […]

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What’s the question, again?

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 8, 2025 | 1 Comment »

Some sixteen years ago, in the first of a series of pieces that tried to define what my work aimed toward (which at the time I called a “post-anthropocentric political ecology”; see here and here for a few others), I wrote that “what is essential is a collective struggle to wrest a realm of compassionate […]

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The New Lives of Images: reader’s guide

Posted in Uncategorized on June 25, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

I created a (post-publication) “reader’s guide” for my last monograph, because it was really three (short) books in one and I didn’t think all readers would be equally interested in all three of them, so I figured a road-map would be helpful. My new book, The New Lives of Images, which Francesco Casetti rightly calls […]

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Forthcoming books

Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 17, 2025 | 1 Comment »

I’m happy to share the news that both The New Lives of Images and Terra Invicta are now available for pre-order. The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds is a theoretically and empirically rich study of images, imagination, and the digital. It’s the fourth in a tetralogy of books […]

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CFP: The Life-Cycle of Moving Images

Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

The deadline is coming soon; please write to me if you need more time. Call for Chapter Proposals: The Life-Cycle of Moving Images: Ecological Entanglements from Conception to Consumption and Beyond We invite contributions for a forthcoming edited volume entitled The Life-Cycle of Moving Images: Ecological Entanglements from Conception to Consumption and Beyond, edited by […]

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Ecologies of the Multipolar Information Disorder

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , on April 3, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

Two recent talks of mine just became available on YouTube. They are “The New Ecologies of Images: Ecomedia Ontology in the Capitalocene,” given in January at the Visual Ecologies conference in Strasbourg, and “Ecologies of the Multipolar Information Disorder: On Recent Elections, Current Wars (and Coups), and Climate Disasters to Come,” given last month at […]

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Trump’s border frenzy: a tale of two elephants

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on March 18, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

As a Canadian who has long valued this country’s differences from the United States, I’m as concerned as anyone about the Trump administration’s threats of annexation toward Canada. This is mostly for obvious reasons: threats of annexation against sovereign nations violate Article One of the United Nations charter, and these threats are being made in […]

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Theory for a hybrid [war] world

Posted in Cultural politics, Eco-theory, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 5, 2025 | 4 Comments »

I’m working up a conference idea around the following set of thoughts, which are still very much in the process of being formulated. Comments welcome. The present conjuncture For those who study such things, social and cultural theory — sometimes simply called “Theory” with a capital T — has done wonders for helping us understand […]

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No common (sense) world

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 12, 2024 | Leave a Comment »

Here are my thoughts on the US election, and on the challenges it presents us, in four parts. 1. The informational catastrophe, and the sadness of it For all the reasons to be dismayed about these elections, there’s one that saddens me most. It’s that all the people (me among them) who’ve given their professional […]

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The EH consensus (?)

Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-theory, tagged , , , , , , on October 9, 2024 | Leave a Comment »

The field I’ve worked in for the last few decades, which has come to be known as the Environmental Humanities (capitalized or not), is one that requires keeping up with ongoing scholarship not only in the humanities, but also in the social sciences and the biological and earth sciences. From my reading of the field, […]

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