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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘geography’
The joy (& loneliness) of being interdisciplinarian
Posted in Academe, Philosophy, tagged Academe, anthropology, bifurcation of nature, disciplinarity, Foucault, geography, interdisciplinarity, Morris Berman, Occupy Anthropology, philosophy, political ecology, transdisciplinarity on December 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Political Ecology position
Posted in Academe, tagged environmental studies, geography, political ecology on September 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We’re been given the green light to announce the following tenure-track position in Environmental Studies and Geography. I’m chairing the Search Committee. Please pass it on to anyone you think will be interested. Review of applications will begin November 15. The Department of Geography and the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Vermont invite […]
eco-arts & ‘experimental geography’ round-up
Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged eco-art, ecomedia, geography, landscape, performance on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The eco-arts blogosphere has kept simmering through the early summer. Greenmuseum.blog, connected to the excellent online environmental resource and exhibition space Green Museum, has taken on a new look. The blog had recently covered the Earth Matters on Stage EcoDrama Symposium, held at the University of Oregon. Mike Lawler’s EcoTheatre blog also provided coverage of […]
metadata & musical geography (from album covers to cultural policy)
Posted in Media ecology, Music & soundscape, tagged affect, cultural geography, cultural policy, Deleuze, geography, Iceland, imagination, music, visual culture on April 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
One of the more oblique threads I’ve been pursuing on this blog has to do with what new media are doing to aural and musical information. Music is, of course, much more than information: it is embodied affect (in a Deleuzian sense) that carries, channels, activates, mobilizes (sets into motion), transforms, and disseminates cultural meanings […]