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Sobering up…

Posted in AnthropoScene, GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 22, 2019 | 1 Comment »

Peter Brannen’s Atlantic article “The Anthropocene is a Joke” provides a helpful cold shower for those who’ve gotten a little too drunk on the concept of the Anthropocene. The entire article is worth reading. Here are a few snippets:

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The second ontological twist

Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 10, 2019 | Leave a Comment »

I keep trying to rephrase the second piece of the “double insight” — or two ontological “twists” — around which the philosophical argument of Shadowing the Anthropocene (and Ecologies of the Moving Image) is woven. The first insight is the process-relational one, which is at the core of both A. N. Whitehead’s metaphysics and many variations […]

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Updated process-relational theory primer

Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , on June 2, 2019 | Leave a Comment »

I originally presented a “primer” to process-relational philosophy on this blog back in 2010. A substantially updated version of it is part of my book, Shadowing the Anthropocene. Here it is as a stand-alone, 10-page PDF file.

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Shadowing unshadowed

Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 1, 2019 | 1 Comment »

As agreed to with my publisher (Punctum), the e-book version of Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times is now available for free download (or pay what you can). To celebrate this, I’m sharing a couple of snippets from the book here. As related in my Reader’s Guide, the book consists of three sections: first, […]

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Koinocene (or Cœnocene)?

Posted in AnthropoScene, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 7, 2018 | 2 Comments »

Peircian thinker Gary Fuhrman has posted an interesting piece on the naming of the Anthropocene, entitled Holocenoscopy. Noting that the word Holocene means nothing more than “entirely recent,” as opposed to the Pleistocene, which means “most recent,” so there’s really nowhere left to go with naming geological periods after their recentness, Fuhrman suggests we look to another […]

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