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Symbiocene@Ruigoord.NL

Posted in Anthropocene, Cultural politics, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 27, 2023 | 1 Comment »

Two things to consider before your morning coffee. 1) We are living through a Holocene collapse event,* when the nearly 12,000 year old regime of relative climate stability, the “comfort zone” for most of what we know as human civilization, is beginning to tear to shreds. (Here’s just one of the shreds from yesterday’s news.) […]

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Garden & Dump conference videos

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , on September 27, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

Videos from the Aarhus (Denmark) conference “The Garden and the Dump: Across More-than-Human Entanglements” are available and free for the viewing, here on the conference YouTube channel. They include talks by philosophers Timothy Morton and Michael Marder and a wonderful conversation between Chen Quifan, Alice Bucknell, and Angela YT Chan. My own talk, “Event, Time, […]

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Books of the decade in ecocultural theory

Posted in Eco-theory, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 18, 2020 | 6 Comments »

How best to characterize the past decade in books? This list focuses on three themes: attempts to grapple with the nature of the climate and extinction crises, the “ontological” and “decolonial” “turns” in cultural and environmental theory, and efforts to map out the “multispecies entanglements” that characterize our world and the acute challenges we face.

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Peirce’s “long revolution”

Posted in Anthropocene, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 4, 2015 | 10 Comments »

As the world’s refugee crisis builds — reminding us that much worse movements of people loom ahead, and much worse wars, as climate systems destabilize and the capitalist world-ecology unravels in the decades and centuries ahead — I can’t help asking myself what, if anything, philosophy can offer in response. It depends on which philosophy, of course. But […]

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Querying Natural Religion: Responses to Latour

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , on November 24, 2013 | 10 Comments »

The following are my notes from “Querying Natural Religion: Immanence, Gaia, and the Parliament of Lively Things.” (Live-blogging did not work, as we didn’t have a live internet connection.) These notes are followed by a brief set of post-event summary comments. The setting: an airplane hangar of a hall in the Baltimore Convention Center. This […]

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AAR panel on Latour’s Gifford Lectures

Posted in Academe, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , on June 19, 2013 | 2 Comments »

The AAR panel responding to 2013 Holberg Prize winner Bruno Latour’s Gifford Lectures has now been scheduled. Information is as follows. QUERYING NATURAL RELIGION: IMMANENCE, GAIA, & THE PARLIAMENT OF LIVELY THINGS

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NT11: Post-Non-Human Turn(over)

Posted in Academe, Philosophy, tagged on May 6, 2012 | 14 Comments »

With just enough distance to sense that I miss it already (in a brain-body hangover kind of way), but not enough for this to be taken too seriously, I offer some morning-after thoughts on the Nonhuman Turn conference. 1. It was a tremendous gathering of forces, of people doing valuable work with ideas, with knowledge-building […]

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NT4: Jane Bennett walks into a bar with an OOO

Posted in Philosophy, tagged on May 4, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Our morning plenarist is Jane Bennett, whose work has been discussed extensively on this blog before (e.g., here). Introduction by Kennan Ferguson: will Jane B. be throwing down a gauntlet? Jane Bennett: “Systems & Things: a materialist and an object-oriented philosopher walk into a bar…”

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For a moratorium on “constructivism”

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on April 30, 2011 | 8 Comments »

I’d like to call a moratorium on the use of the word “constructivism” (or “constructionism”) to refer only to social constructivism. (This post was prompted by Tim  Morton’s Object-Oriented Strategies for Ecological Art, but his point there is somewhat differently directed and mine addresses a more general issue that can still be found in a […]

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Books of the decade in ecocultural theory

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on December 19, 2010 | 24 Comments »

What books, published over the last ten years, have contributed most cogently and profoundly to our thinking about the relationship between culture and nature, ecology and society? (That’s to name just two of the dualisms this blog regularly throws into question.) Who have been the most important ecocultural theorists so far this century? And which […]

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Being knowing, knowing being

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , on December 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »

The debate between relational and objectological variants of speculative realism (for lack of a better characterization) has taken another of its more frenetic turns, which is both frustrating and promising — frustrating because it tends to descend into personally directed pejoratives when it does that, and because, as Steve Shaviro suggests, it seems to go […]

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Spillcam reality

Posted in Visual culture, tagged , on May 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I’ve been wanting to post something about the images of the Gulf oil spill (or, rather, of the unmitigated man made deep water volcanic vent of crude oil and gas) — about what they indicate (i.e. directly inform us about), what they symbolize (i.e., mean) and iconize (look like), and why it might be that […]

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