… but only momentarily, from my writing (mainly Ecologies of the Moving Image, which continues to proceed apace, but also the Praxis Forum I’m editing on the Ken Burns National Parks series for Environmental Communication, the paper I’ve been invited to give on green pilgrimage at the Fourth Compostela Colloquium, and the piece I’m writing […]
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surfacing
Posted in Blog stuff on July 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
other matters
Posted in Blog stuff on June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s very nice to see that philosopher and Deleuzian/Spinozist Jeffrey Bell has joined the blogosphere, with a set of very interesting posts up already. Graham Harman has been providing more useful writing tips, here and here. William Connolly has been posting to the impressive group blog The Contemporary Condition. Levi has been posting about flat […]
partitions of the sensible
Posted in Philosophy, tagged Bennett on June 20, 2010 | 6 Comments »
The following began as a summary of the final chapter of Vibrant Matter, but it somehow mutated into something more like a position statement (which I hope doesn’t sound like too much of a rant). But I’ll let it go as it is, running the risk of speaking too loudly to no one in particular, […]
networkologies
Posted in Philosophy on May 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Chris at Networkologies has an excellent reply to my post on time- and crystal-images and the campaign ads he had described here. Chris writes: When we first see a campaign ad, our first thought might not be that there is virtuality lurking within the images before us, but of course, for Deleuze, there is virtuality […]
the crystal image
Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged Deleuze, time on May 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A couple of recent posts by Chris Vitale and Tim Morton have rekindled my thinking about Deleuze’s crystal-image. Chris’s interesting post is about the power of crowdsourcing and video detournement in delivering a more democratic form of media politics. Tim’s brief posts share music videos and reflections on dark ecology and the timbral. Chris describes […]
lines in ecocritical sands
Posted in Eco-culture, tagged ecocriticism on May 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Greg Garrard, who’s become something of a point-man for synoptic treatments of ecocriticism (like this one, and see my previous post on him), has come out with a lucid and judicious review of recent publications in The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. It covers the years 2007-8, which Garrard, in an email to […]
ontologizing
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged Harman, object-oriented philosophy, Peirce, relationalism, Whitehead on May 4, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I’m looking forward to Graham Harman’s forthcoming review of Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter, and I’m glad to see that this discussion between object-oriented philosophy and Bennett’s vibrant materialism (and, by extension, the other theoretical impulses she draws on, which this blog, for the most part, enthusiastically shares) is getting underway. That discussion will no doubt […]
a year of immanence
Posted in Academe, Blog stuff, tagged Academe on December 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The first anniversary of the launch of this blog passed quietly a couple of weeks ago. Since it’s coming around to the end of December and I’m about to take a holiday for a couple of weeks, I thought it appropriate to provide some reflections on its first year, accompanied by some statistics about its growth and a thought or two about its future. […]
One of the risks of electronic communication is that it can mislead you into thinking that you’re having an impact — because a smattering of people agree with you — when the only thing that’s happened is that you’ve found that smattering of people, spread around the world, who agree with you. But so has everyone else, including those who would disagree with you violently — and their opinions are probably multiplying at the same speed as yours. […]
radical orthodoxies, left & right. . .
Posted in Politics, tagged ecopolitics, Islam, political theory, radical orthodoxy, traditionalism, Zizek on November 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Slavoj Zizek’s engagement with theologians like radical orthodoxist John Milbank continues to perplex me a little bit, but having heard him speak a few days ago with death-of-God theologian Thomas Altizer at the American Academy of Religion meeting in Montreal left me reassured me that Zizek is far from the wildest (and zaniest) mind out […]
some favorites
Posted in Eco-culture, tagged ecotheory on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As chair of the awards committee for the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, I’ve had to start thinking about the best scholarly books published in the last couple of years. Given the overlap between “the study of religion, nature, and culture” and this blog, I thought I’d throw out some […]
ASLE’s rabbits & cougars, or whither ecocriticism?
Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, Politics, tagged ecocriticism, ecopolitics, ecotheory on June 5, 2009 | 8 Comments »
There are rabbits all over the lawns of the University of Victoria campus. Like little furry grass-eating balls, they scurry forward a little from time to time but otherwise placidly chomp away at the lawns, oblivious to humans or anything else. Sometimes they just sit there, or lay themselves out and stare forward, cutely extending […]
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