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.
Posts Tagged ‘books’
Books of the decade in ecocultural theory
Posted in Eco-theory, tagged Anna Tsing, Anthropocene, books, books of the decade, cosmopolitics, decolonial turn, decoloniality, Donna Haraway, ecocultural theory, Eduardo Kohn, extinction crisis, Marison de la Cadena, multispecies studies, ontological turn on December 18, 2020 | 6 Comments »
Scenes in the image-world
Posted in Visual culture, tagged Anthropocene, books, image ecologies, image regimes, image-world, media ecologies, media studies, The New Lives of Images, visual culture, visual studies on June 26, 2020 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a preview in section headings of the book I’m currently writing. It presents a way of thinking about images, what they’ve done for people, and how all of that figures into the contemporary world of digital media. It then applies that way of thinking to three sets of images: about humans as the stars […]
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 »
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 […]
Coming to whose senses? (a quiz)
Posted in Academe, tagged books, Foucault, genealogy, Morris Berman, quizzes on August 11, 2018 | 7 Comments »
The following six books all have the same title. Without looking them up, match each book’s subtitle with the author and publication details listed below. Coming to Our Senses: Affect and An Order of Things for Global Culture Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West Coming to Our Senses: […]
… 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).
Bandwagocene
Posted in Anthropocene, tagged Anthropocene, books, publishing on July 21, 2015 | 3 Comments »
These days, it takes a course release for an academic to keep up with the avalanche of books being published with titles that feature the word “Anthropocene.” To read them would take a sabbatical. Doing anything approximating a “slow read” would require, well, retirement. But that’s no reason not to try. Here’s just a quick sample […]
CSG set free (sort of): 10th birthday reflections
Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged books, Claiming Sacred Ground, Ivakhiv on June 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It seems that my first book, Claiming Sacred Ground, which came out ten years ago, is circulating for free online as a PDF. (I just downloaded it myself to see if it’s the real thing; it is. Do a PDF search for it if you want it.) I don’t mind people downloading it — it’s […]
Tim Ingold & the liveliness of the living
Posted in Philosophy, tagged anthropology, books, ecology, environment, Ingold, life, Ontology, epistemology on June 14, 2011 | 6 Comments »
A new book by Tim Ingold is always good news, especially one that — like his 2000 collection Perception of the Environment — brings together several years’ worth of work into one volume. Ingold describes Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description as “in many ways” a “sequel” to that earlier book, and it’s […]
Categories
- Academe (108)
- Anthropocene (75)
- Blog stuff (52)
- Cinema (88)
- Climate change (75)
- Cultural politics (45)
- Eco-culture (174)
- Eco-theory (55)
- Manifestos & auguries (41)
- Media ecology (120)
- Music & soundscape (39)
- Philosophy (261)
- Politics (166)
- Process-relational thought (101)
- Science & society (36)
- Spirit matter (128)
- Uncategorized (57)
- Visual culture (88)
Translate
Archives
Subscribe to Blog via Email
Subscribe2
Top Posts & Pages
Popular resources
Books & articles
Selected interviews, talks, music
Associated sites
Immanence on Facebook
-
