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Rewiring our capacity for ecocultural change

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 10, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

Research on the usefulness of psychedelics for treating depression, anxiety, addiction, and post-traumatic stress has been growing steadily. (See here, here, here, and here for glimpses of it, and To the Best of Our Knowledge‘s recent exploration of it for a fascinating in-depth look at the topic.) I’d like to extrapolate from that research for […]

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Navigating climate trauma

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, tagged , , , , , , on November 2, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

I’m happy to share my talk from the recent Vermont Humanities conference. It captures the essence of things I’ve been writing and thinking about over the last while. And rather incredibly for a humanities conference, it was 100% glitch-free (despite the talk’s audio-visual intricacies; well, the image fades aren’t perfectly smooth, but those can be […]

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Youth vs. Apocalypse: or, optimism of the will

Posted in Climate change, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 29, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

It seems the world is coming to realize what Environmental Studies folks have been saying since I first became a Master’s student in that field 34 years ago: that humanity risks careening off the rails into a species-wide, if not planet-wide, smash-up unless it profoundly reorients the way it functions on this planet. That three-decade […]

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Solaristics, ETs, and the ontology of climate trauma

Posted in Climate change, Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 25, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

As we prepare for another Climate Change Conference of the Parties, and all the activist organizing around it, it’s important for us to come to terms with exactly what we are dealing with. This post approaches climate change from a somewhat oblique, exo-planetary perspective. I have given a few talks recently in which I propose […]

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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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Through an Anthropo(s)cenic Glass, Darkly

Posted in Anthropocene, Cinema, Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 11, 2021 | 1 Comment »

My thinking about the Anthropocenic predicament continues to be informed, even haunted, by Andrei Tarkovsky’s films Solaris and Stalker, along with their literary predecessor novels by (Lviv-born) Stanisław Lem and the Strugatsky brothers, respectively. Two keynote talks I’ve been invited to give this October — one for Ukraine’s Congress of Culture, to take place in […]

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The traumatic kernel of the unfolding storm

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 25, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

Here are a few thoughts coming out of the five weeks of readings in decolonial theory that I’m doing with my Advanced Environmental Humanities class (which has been online and open to the interested public). The course is centrally concerned with the present “global moment,” and the following can be considered a short take on […]

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