A social media conversation prompted me to dig up something I had written in my notebook years ago after reading Serhii Plokhy’s masterful book on “premodern identities” in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Which in turn prompted me to realize that coronavirus provides an answer to the question I had just finished writing an article about […]
Posts Tagged ‘Gaia’
We are all tuteishi (or, on not being posthuman)
Posted in ImageNation, tagged alternative humanism, bioregionalism, border identities, borderlands, Bruno Latour, cultural identity, earthbound, ethnicity, Gaia, Galician, global cultural studies, humanism, identity, mestizo, nationality, Origins of the Slavic Nations, place, placelessness, posthuman, posthumanism, posthumanities, postmodern, premodern, Russian, Rusyn, Serhii Plokhy, Slavic, tuteishi, tuteishyi, Ukrainian, Zomia on June 17, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
Skipping an Earthbeat
Posted in AnthropoScene, GeoPhilosophy, tagged Aaron Wildavsky, Anthropocene, Bill McGuire, climate change, dynamic earth, Earthbeat, earthquakes, environmentalism, fragile Earth, Gaia, geology, Mary Douglas, risk as culture, volcanoes on June 15, 2018 | 4 Comments »
Reading Bill McGuire‘s 2012 book Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes, I came across this description of the annual “pulse” called an “Earthbeat,” which is supposedly responsible for Earth’s preference for volcanic eruptions between November and April (also known as “volcano season”): rather like a beating heart, the Earth changes […]
Querying Natural Religion: Responses to Latour
Posted in AnthropoScene, GeoPhilosophy, SpiritMatter, tagged Anthropocene, Connolly, Gaia, immanence, Latour on November 24, 2013 | 10 Comments »
The following are my notes from “Querying Natural Religion: Immanence, Gaia, and the Parliament of Lively Things.” (Live-blogging did not work, as we didn’t have a live internet connection.) These notes are followed by a brief set of post-event summary comments. The setting: an airplane hangar of a hall in the Baltimore Convention Center. This […]
Imminently in Baltimore
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged AAR, Connolly, Gaia, immanence, Latour, natural religion on November 20, 2013 | 4 Comments »
Get ready for the lively parliament of immanent Gaianly agents… “Querying Natural Religion: Immanence, Gaia, and the Parliament of Lively Things” will take place this Saturday afternoon in the Baltimore Convention Center (right after Karen Armstrong’s plenary in the same room, on “The Science of Compassion”). The revised speaker line-up is below. Unfortunately, Jane Bennett […]
AAR panel on Latour’s Gifford Lectures
Posted in Academe, GeoPhilosophy, SpiritMatter, tagged Gaia, Gifford Lectures, immanence, Latour, natural religion on June 19, 2013 | 2 Comments »
The AAR panel responding to 2013 Holberg Prize winner Bruno Latour’s Gifford Lectures has now been scheduled. Information is as follows. QUERYING NATURAL RELIGION: IMMANENCE, GAIA, & THE PARLIAMENT OF LIVELY THINGS
Latour on Gaia & Natural Religion
Posted in EcoCulture, SpiritMatter, tagged Gaia, natural religion on October 30, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Bruno Latour’s upcoming Gifford Lectures sound remarkable. See ANTHEM for the details. There could be no better theme for a lecture series on natural religion than that of Gaia, this puzzling figure that has emerged recently in public discourse from Earth science as well as from many activist and spiritual movements. The problem is that the […]
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