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Kyїv, Ukraine

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on October 17, 2016 | 2 Comments »

Since my review of urban geographer Roman Cybriwsky’s excellent book on Kyїv, Ukraine, has not been published yet by the journal I wrote it for, though a second edition has already come out, and since I’ll be visiting the city in a couple of days, I thought I might as well share that review, here. (I’ll […]

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Sabbatical note

Posted in Academe, tagged , , , on September 30, 2016 | 21 Comments »

It gives me pleasure to share the news that I’ve been named the Steven Rubenstein Professor for Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. The position provides some teaching release and a budget enabling me to work on my proposed project of developing a new center for eco-arts, media, and culture (or something of the […]

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Anthropocenic sublime

Posted in Anthropocene, tagged , , on July 30, 2016 | 6 Comments »

I’ll be giving the following talk at the “Popular Culture, Religion, and the Anthropocene” workshop at the National University of Singapore this coming week. Navigating the Zone of Alienation: Chernobyl and the Anthropocenic Sublime Abstract:

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Toward telling an adequate story

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 29, 2016 | 11 Comments »

This post builds on the previous one on the state of the eco-humanities. Here I focus on the substantive elements for narratives adequate to the Anthropocene. One of the challenges of our time is to learn to tell an adequate story of humanity’s current predicament. Next spring’s Stories for the Anthropocene Festival in Stockholm aims to deal with this challenge. Numerous […]

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State of the Eco-Humanities, Take 1

Posted in Academe, Anthropocene, Eco-theory, tagged , , , , , on June 8, 2016 | 4 Comments »

This post is the first of a series of reflections on the state of the Environmental Humanities, or Eco-Humanities, and of where this interdisciplinary field might be headed. A note on terminology: The term “Environmental Humanities” has caught on in ways that “Eco-Humanities” and other variations have not, but the debate between them has hardly occurred, […]

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30 Years (or 30,000): Spectral stories of Chernobyl

Posted in Anthropocene, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 25, 2016 | 4 Comments »

I’ll be giving this talk at the University of Kansas on Thursday. It’ll be exactly two days after the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. And 16 days before the 30th anniversary of Mikhail Gorbachev’s speech about the accident. Pravda (Truth) first reported in any detail on the accident on May 6 and 7. The future of the Soviet […]

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Living in a bubble

Posted in Anthropocene, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , on April 19, 2016 | 6 Comments »

I’ve been using the metaphor of the Sustainability Bottleneck in my teaching, but another one that is more immediately graspable is The Bubble. Two things landed in my in-box this morning that testify to this (but that’s a pretty daily occurrence, e.g., see this, this, this, this, this, this, and this, all from the past week). One […]

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… And what I’m reading

Posted in Academe, tagged , 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).

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A case for a non-mammalian food ethic

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , , on January 12, 2016 | 24 Comments »

Vegetarianism has been part of my identity for the last 25 years (thanks to arguments like this one and this one), but I’ve been increasingly recognizing the term’s limits.

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Post-Paris thoughts: The beginning of the end?

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Politics, tagged , , , , , on December 13, 2015 | 7 Comments »

The Paris climate talks were successful in that they resulted in an agreement that is both better than nothing and better than most of us expected. They were a failure in that even if they are followed to the letter — and there’s no provision for enforcing whether anyone follows them or not — they would […]

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Wark on Moore’s Capitalocene

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on November 6, 2015 | 5 Comments »

McKenzie Wark gets at some very important issues in what we might call “the ontology of the Anthropocene” in this review of Jason Moore’s book Capitalism in the Web of Life. Moore’s work, as he acknowledges (and as I have argued here before), provides an important contribution to rethinking the relations between humanity, the nonhuman world, and […]

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Not just waiting for Godot

Posted in Anthropocene, tagged , , , , on September 11, 2015 | 19 Comments »

You may take this as more optimistic blathering from within the pessimistic morass, but here goes. Those of us who teach environmental studies — who teach impressionable young adults about the colossal challenges facing humanity in the coming decades, with the looming climate crisis, resource wars and (human and nonhuman) refugee crises, and mass extinction on a […]

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