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Posts Tagged ‘Foucault’

(M)anthropocene vs. the pluriverse

Posted in Anthropocene, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 18, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

Those interested in the Anthropo(S)cene thread (technically, a “category”) of this blog may be interested in the call for proposals for a special issue of Radical History Review on Alternatives to the Anthropocene. (Hat tip to Jeremy Schmidt at The Anthropo.Scene.) The call reads, in part:

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Coming to whose senses? (a quiz)

Posted in Academe, tagged , , , , 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: […]

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Comparative ‘practicology’: Philosophy as a way of life

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , on January 21, 2018 | 21 Comments »

This course (an Honors College course I’m happy to be to teaching this year) is already in progress, but I’d be curious to hear any comments on it. What would you include in a comparative overview of spiritual practices? What’s missing?  Self-Cultivation and Spiritual Practice: Comparative Perspectives This course introduces students to the comparative study […]

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A process view of “religious Nones”

Posted in Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 18, 2016 | 4 Comments »

While I’ve done no formal surveys, my best guess is that about half my students here at the U of Vermont (at least those in Environmental Studies) would fit into the category of “religiously unaffiliated,” the so-called “religious Nones” — a category that now makes up almost 1 in 4 Americans and over a third of those […]

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Foucault quote quiz

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on March 20, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

Quick quiz: What U.S. city did Michel Foucault pen these words about?

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Top humanists: final results

Posted in Academe, tagged , , , on June 3, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

Since most of us love lists — or at least love and hate them simultaneously — here is the updated version of the “Top humanities theorists of the last century” list. See the previous version for the full criteria and the caveats. Briefly: it’s a list of the most cited humanities theorists of the last 100 years (roughly) according to their […]

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The joy (& loneliness) of being interdisciplinarian

Posted in Academe, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on December 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »

What makes an -ologist, -osopher, -ographer? What, for instance, makes one an anthropologist? A geographer? A philosopher? A scientist? Scene 1: As chair of a search committee looking to hire a political ecologist, a tenure-track position to be shared between a Geography department and an Environmental Studies program, I’ve been involved in intensive discussion of […]

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Cronon, Chomsky/Foucault, & public reason

Posted in Academe, Blog stuff, Media ecology, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , on March 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The Bill Cronon-Wisconsin Republican party tangle is making me — and many others, judging by the responses I’ve seen on academic listservs — think a little more deeply about how we use our e-mail addresses. Like many, I’m troubled by the possibility that someone could ask to see my e-mail correspondence on any old topic. […]

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Will the 21st century be Foucauldian-Pollanian?

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , on June 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Shaka Freeman’s photo posts asking the question “Michael Pollan or Michel Foucault?” are hilarious, because the two Mickeys really do look alike and are sometimes difficult to tell apart. For the sake of a bit of entertaining triangulation, I’ve added Foucauldian ecologist and Greenpeace Canada activist Eric Darier to the mix. But the site also […]

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