Here’s the “reader’s guide” I promised for Shadowing the Anthropocene. It begins with a quick summary of the book’s main contribution — a kind of “master key” to what it tries to do. It then lays out a set of paths one can take through the book, which would be useful for readers with an […]
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Shadowing the Anthropocene: a reader’s guide
Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged Adrian Ivakhiv, Alfred North Whitehead, Anthropocene, books, Charles Sanders Peirce, epistemology, Ontology, process-relational thought, Shadowing the Anthropocene, writing on October 13, 2018 | 8 Comments »
Lyme & beyond: a bibliographic resource
Posted in Science & society, tagged alternative health, Anomalies, anomalistics, Anthropocene, bugs, chronic Lyme disease, complementary health, conspiracies, ecological syndrome, fear of nature, global hum, health scares, hysteria, infectious diseases, institutional trust, Lyme disease, Lyme wars, medical establishment, medicine, modern syndromes, public health wars, scientific controversies, uncertainty on July 31, 2018 | 7 Comments »
Last updated on November 11, 2018 Immanence sometimes dips into areas of controversial or “boundary” science, which means areas of science whose interpretation is both publicly and scientifically contentious. While I don’t consider climate science to be all that scientifically controversial (though it is certainly politically controversial), and the general topics of “fake news,” “information war,” and […]
Welcome to the Feverish World (CFP)
Posted in Academe, Anthropocene, tagged 1968, artscience, Bruno Latour, C. P. Snow, eco-arts, EcoCulture Lab, ecopoetics, ecopolitics, Feverish World, two cultures, University of Vermont on May 25, 2018 | 6 Comments »
Please circulate widely… FEVERISH WORLD 2018-2068: ARTS & SCIENCES OF COLLECTIVE SURVIVAL A Symposium and Convergence in Burlington, Vermont, October 20-22, 2018 Fifty years after the widespread international protests of 1968 challenged institutional norms, and some sixty years after C. P. Snow lamented the gap between academia’s “two cultures,” those of the arts and the sciences, […]
Post-vegetarian food ethics, continued…
Posted in Eco-culture, tagged diets, flexi-vegetarianism, flexitarianism, food ethics, freeganism, locavorism, mammalism, mammals, non-mammalian diet, post-vegetarianism, veganism, vegetarianism on August 18, 2017 | 9 Comments »
This post is a follow-up to my “case for a non-mammalian food ethic.” I’ve given that case some more thought and have decided that honesty requires more nuance than either continuing to call myself a (straight) vegetarian or calling myself a “non-mammalian.” The latter term is confusing in any case, since “mammalian” could either mean someone who […]
Trump vs. the world
Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged Nicaragua, Paris climate accord, Trump, U.S. politics on June 2, 2017 | 2 Comments »
Trump’s speech on his decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord included so many questionable statements, it’s hard to know where to start. Fortunately, others have. Among the better fact-checks are the Washington Post’s (this one and this one), FactCheck.org’s, NPR’s, PolitiFact’s, and the Huffington Post’s. Foreign Policy’s summary (which comes from a partisan source, but […]
Assessing Murray Bookchin’s legacy
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged Bookchin, Damian White, eco-anarchism, Janet Biehl, Kurdish revolutionary movement, libertarian municipalism, Murray Bookchin, Rojava on July 12, 2016 | 5 Comments »
Damian White has posted an excellent review of Janet Biehl’s book Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin at the Jacobin blog. Bookchin’s legacy has undergone something of a revival of late thanks to the efforts of Kurdish eco-socialist communitarians in Rojava.
Fort McMurray as fictive image
Posted in Climate change, Visual culture, tagged Anthropocene, climate denialism, climate science, environmental communication, fact, Latour, mediation, rhetoric, science studies on May 9, 2016 | 7 Comments »
With reality like this, who needs fiction? It’s from Fort McMurray, last week. Harrowing. While the impact of such images is undeniable, the debate over whether and how they are related to climate change is a debate the rest of us should not shy away from.
… And what I’m reading
Posted in Academe, tagged books, readings on March 24, 2016 | 2 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).
Following the (in)action in Paris, updated
Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged 350.org, ClimateJustice, COP21, Paris climate summit, UN climate change conferences on December 15, 2015 | 5 Comments »
This article has been revised since it was first posted. It consists of a list of useful sources providing ongoing coverage of, and initial post-conference reactions to, the COP21 conference and mobilizations in response to it. Please suggest any other helpful sources and links in the “Comments.” (Previously suggested links have been added and the comments removed.) Originally published: Dec. […]