Readers of this blog may know that I have longstanding research as well as personal/family connections in Ukraine and that I have sometimes run a parallel blog on issues related to that country. (Called “UKR-TAZ: A Ukrainian Temporary Autonomous Zone,” the blog is found here.) I recently began posting to that blog more regularly with […]
Posts Tagged ‘hyper-events’
Invasion of Ukraine
Posted in Politics, tagged fascism, global politics, hyper-events, peace, Putin, Putinism, Russia, Ukraine, war on February 26, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
The [Real]: on Rothko, music, & the Global Trends 2040 report
Posted in Anthropocene, Manifestos & auguries, Music & soundscape, tagged ambient music, Brian Eno, climate crisis, COVID-19, Global Trends 2040, hyper-events, hyperobjects, industrial ambient, Mark Rothko, Morton Feldman, National Intelligence Council, pandemic, Peter Gabriel, The Real, William Basinski on April 15, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
Fans of Mark Rothko’s color field paintings frequently comment on the spaciousness, immersiveness, and liminality of those works: the way you can stand in front of them and feel as if you are being bathed in some transcendent force that is irreducible to anything else. Great art is (supposed to be) like that: it simply […]
CFP: “When Corona Met Climate Change…”
Posted in Academe, Climate change, Media ecology, tagged calls, Coronavirus, Earth Day, Earth Day 2020, events, hyper-events, lockdown, pandemic politics, virtual gatherings on April 7, 2020 | 1 Comment »
Please share the following call for presenters: “When Corona Met Climate Change… What Changed?” A series of live, short (under 3 minutes), and creative responses to the intersection of coronavirus and climate change, 50 years after Earth Day and 50 years before Ecotopia Day (EarthDay+100).
How to welcome a guest
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Coronavirus, COVID-19, EcoHealth Alliance, Edward Gorey, global ecology, hyper-events, hyperobjects, One Health Initiative, pandemics, Timothy Morton, virology, viruses on March 15, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
The outbreak of Coronavirus is a good opportunity to think about how we treat guests whose novel appearance amidst us may pose hardship, but whose continuing presence is undeniable.