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Birthday thoughts

Posted in Spirit matter on July 15, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Birthdays, and other such markers (I realized while meditating by the Lamoille river this morning), are an opportunity for pooling together thoughts, those facing back across the memoried past and those facing forward to an open future, and gathering them into a spool of desiring-productive-energy to be set spinning outward. Not only one’s own thoughts, […]

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For the moment

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , on May 14, 2012 | 8 Comments »

Now that a very busy semester has ended, I can return to the constructive speculative-metaphysical strand of this blog, in which I work out the process-relational philosophy I’ve tentatively labelled Ecosophy-G. A suitable acronym for this project might be “pre-G” (process-relational ecosophy-G), pronounced “pree-jee,” with the “pre” also indicating that the philosophy is a form […]

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Thinking through threes (& deities)

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , on March 14, 2012 | 14 Comments »

  One of the things that Ecologies of the Moving Image has left unresolved, and left me needing to think more about, is the extent to which my Peircian “triadism” holds up. Philosophically, the case for some sort of triadism as a way of getting around dualisms is, at first blush, appealing. But there are […]

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Toward an ecophilosophical cinema

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Visual culture, tagged , , , on February 17, 2012 | 13 Comments »

My paper for this year’s Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, coming up next month in Boston, will focus on the two films that got a lot of side-by-side attention at last year’s Cannes festival, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. Since a few of my favorite bloggers have […]

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On not blogging, and its results

Posted in Blog stuff on February 12, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Bloggers like to talk about why they blog. I will talk here about why I have not been doing that (blogging, or talking about it) and what that’s meant for me. The main reason is the obvious: having a kid takes away all your free time. And blogging, unless it’s done as part of your […]

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Cinemas of the Not-Yet

Posted in Cinema, tagged , , on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Another remixed outtake/spinoff from my Ecologies of the Moving Image book project has come out, this time in the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, in a special theme issue on “Imagining Ecotopia.” My piece is called “Cinema of the Not-Yet: The Utopian Promise of Film as Heterotopia.” Here’s the abstract:  

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Growth in the underbrush…

Posted in Blog stuff on August 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Leon takes me to task for slowing down here, but finds much life in the ecophilosophical immanent-ontological underbrush — among fellow travelers Knowledge Ecology (who’s been on a roll lately), Immanent Transcendence, and Ecology without Nature. (And we should add Leon’s own After Nature.) (Note: It’s all underbrush; no towering redwoods among us.) He is, […]

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Film-Philosophy article

Posted in Cinema, Philosophy, tagged , , , on August 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »

The new issue of Film-Philosophy is out, and it includes my article “The Anthrobiogeomorphic Machine: Stalking the Zone of Cinema.” The abstract is below. The first half of the article is an early version of the paper I gave at the recent Moving Environments conference, which encompassed material from the first two chapters of my […]

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Stalking the cinema stalking the world

Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , on April 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Here’s a version of something that comes late in Chapter One of my Ecologies of the Moving Image manuscript. This follows a description of Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker (USSR, 1979), which I take as a kind of paradigmatic model for the process-relational framework the book develops. Here I discuss the film in its relationship to […]

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Year 25 A.C. (after Chernobyl)–a love letter

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on April 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I was going to post something to mark the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, but Sarah Phillips has already posted something so good, saying many of the things I would have wanted to say, that I will simply link to her article at Somatosphere and add some personal notes of my own. The […]

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Ecosophy-G

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , on March 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

To the extent that ontological questions drive my recent writing (which includes Ecologies of the Moving Image, Ecologies of Identity, and a metaphysical manifesto-thriller called Why Objects Fly Out the Window), they are predominantly the following two: How do things enter into relation with other things? What happens (in the world) when they do? In […]

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Whitehead & media theory

Posted in Media ecology, Philosophy, tagged on February 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Jussi Parikka at Machinology is reporting on media theorist Mark Hansen’s move from a focus on media objects to a Whiteheadian focus on media processes. A few quotes: “Well known are the Whitehead writings of Massumi and Manning in Montreal, and of course the recent Whitehead writings of Steven Shaviro, the debates around object oriented […]

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