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Eco-ethico-aesthetics and George Floyd

Posted in GeoPhilosophy, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 4, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

As I explain in Shadowing the Anthropocene, process-relational philosophy in a Peircian-Whiteheadian vein takes aesthetics to be first, ethics to be second, and logic (which, in our time, we need to think of also as eco-logic) to be third. This is not a temporal sequence, but a logical one: aesthetics is found in the response […]

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What’s the big deal? Or, whither universities…

Posted in Academe, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 23, 2018 | 14 Comments »

A post-Commencement pep talk for myself (& academic friends who care to listen) It should be pretty obvious by now that predatory, extractive capitalism is not working, and that we need to move swiftly to a regenerative mixed economy grounded in a respect for living systems. The implications of that are pretty simple, but also […]

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Beyond sustainability’s 3 pillars: an exercise in eco-political ontology

Posted in AnthropoScene, EcoCulture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 1, 2017 | 9 Comments »

It’s become a cliché for people in environmental, policy, and even corporate circles to talk about the “triple bottom-line,” or the “three pillars” or “three-legged stool,” of sustainability. Those “pillars” are almost universally understood to be the economic, the environmental, and the social (sometimes rendered, more trenchantly, as social justice). Some have argued that a fourth, the cultural, should […]

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This IS nature, guys…

Posted in EcoCulture, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 16, 2017 | 21 Comments »

There is an irony in The Nature Conservancy’s headline heralding a “new study” that “finds nature is vital to beating climate change.” The sub-title adds that “Nature could cost-effectively deliver over a third of greenhouse gas emissions reductions required to prevent dangerous levels of global warming.” For one thing, what is the “nature” that would […]

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Toronto talk: Ukraine’s anomalous Zone

Posted in EcoCulture, GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 1, 2013 | 6 Comments »

My upcoming talk at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs comes from the East European strand of my research. The talk will be called “Becoming Tuteishyi: Peregrinations in the Zona of Ukraine, with Walter, Gloria, Andrei, Bruno, and Other Explorers.” The description reads as follows: Drawing on the author’s research and travels, […]

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Tim Ingold & the liveliness of the living

Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , , 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 […]

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What a bodymind can do – Part 3

Posted in GeoPhilosophy, SpiritMatter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »

This is the concluding part of a three-part article. Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 here. They should be read in the sequence in which they were published.   The True, the Good, and the Beautiful All of this can be related to the triad of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful […]

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For a moratorium on “constructivism”

Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , , on April 30, 2011 | 8 Comments »

I’d like to call a moratorium on the use of the word “constructivism” (or “constructionism”) to refer only to social constructivism. (This post was prompted by Tim  Morton’s Object-Oriented Strategies for Ecological Art, but his point there is somewhat differently directed and mine addresses a more general issue that can still be found in a […]

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Year 25 A.C. (after Chernobyl)–a love letter

Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on April 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I was going to post something to mark the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, but Sarah Phillips has already posted something so good, saying many of the things I would have wanted to say, that I will simply link to her article at Somatosphere and add some personal notes of my own. The […]

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Ecology-ontology-politics (1): Pickering’s cyborgs

Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , , , on April 4, 2011 | 9 Comments »

Ecology, ontology, politics: These three terms are among the most common themes of this blog, but their intersections deserve a more sustained exploration. This is the first of a series of posts that will do that through critical discussion of various readings and concepts. This first post reviews and reflects on some of the questions […]

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Examining life, trash, & radical nature

Posted in GeoPhilosophy, ImageNation, tagged , , , , , on February 11, 2011 | 6 Comments »

I enjoyed Astra Taylor’s film Examined Life when I first saw it a couple of years ago, and, having just watched it again, I’m glad to see that it bears re-viewing. As one might expect, some segments are more lasting than others. Slavoj Zizek wearing an orange safety vest talking about ecology at a London […]

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Religious (re)turns in the wake of global nature

Posted in SpiritMatter, tagged , , , , , on January 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I’m reorganizing the piece I wrote for the School of Advanced Research workshop on science, nature, and religion so that part of it will fit into the introduction of the book we are producing (which I’m co-writing with the workshop organizer and chair, Catherine Tucker) and the rest will make up the book’s concluding chapter. […]

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