Opening the ISSRNC conference on Mountains and Sacred Landscapes with a set of images from anti-pipelines and indigenous solidarity events, Karenna Gore (daughter of Al and founding director of the Center for Earth Ethics) said something that struck me as an evocative distillation of what’s really at stake in the world. The Trump administration’s Inquisition-like demolition […]
Posts Tagged ‘Latour’
Fort McMurray as fictive image
Posted in AnthropoScene, ImageNation, tagged Anthropocene, climate change, climate denialism, climate science, environmental communication, fact, Latour, mediation, rhetoric, science studies on May 9, 2016 | 7 Comments »
With reality like this, who needs fiction? It’s from Fort McMurray, last week. Harrowing. While the impact of such images is undeniable, the debate over whether and how they are related to climate change is a debate the rest of us should not shy away from.
Harman’s reply
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged Harman, Latour, object-oriented philosophy, process-relational thought, speculative realism on June 9, 2015 | 23 Comments »
Graham Harman’s reply to my critical response to his book Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political, which appeared as part of a book symposium in Global Discourse earlier this year, is readable online, here. I won’t address the details of that reply here. Some of them relate to our divergent interpretations of Latour, and since Harman has now written two books (and more) about […]
Appearances
Posted in Academe, MediaSpace, tagged CENHS, ecocinema, Ecologies of the Moving Image, Harman, Latour, religious studies, SCMS on March 9, 2015 | 5 Comments »
My review of Graham Harman’s recent book Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political, has been published online in the journal Global Discourse. It’s part of a book review symposium, which will be accompanied (in the print issue) by the author’s reply to his interlocutors. The journal has been publishing a lot on Latour’s political theory (see here). I especially […]
“Ontology Across the Disciplines” reading group
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged anthropology, Descola, Kohn, Latour, ontological turn, ontology, reading groups, STS on February 8, 2015 | 3 Comments »
I’m participating in a reading group here at the University of Vermont entitled “Ontology Across the Disciplines.” (More than just participating… I’ve been gently arm-twisted by the organizers, anthropologists Parker Van Valkenberg and Ben Eastman, into chairing the discussions. Thanks, guys 😉 ) Since I know there are folks out there who may be interested, […]
Upcoming: ecomusics, climate change culture, etc.
Posted in SoundScape, tagged climate culture, eco-arts, ecomusic, ecomusicology, ecopoetics, environmental humanities, Latour, petroculture on September 30, 2014 | 1 Comment »
I am about to travel to Asheville, North Carolina, for the Ecomusics and Ecomusicologies conference, to be held from Thursday through Monday at the University of North Carolina Asheville. The international conference, which has become an annual event (it met previously in Brisbane, Australia, and in New Orleans), brings together theorists and researchers with performers and practitioners. Panels on topics including “musical […]
Toronto talk: Ukraine’s anomalous Zone
Posted in EcoCulture, GeoPhilosophy, tagged amodernism, Chernobyl, ecology, Latour, Mignolo, postcolonialism, Tarkovsky, Ukraine, Zone 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, […]
Ontologies of bilocation
Posted in Academe, tagged anthropology, interdisciplinarity, Latour, ontology on December 1, 2013 | 3 Comments »
For interdisciplinary scholars, it’s always a challenge to decide which conferences to attend and which to forgo. The problem is particularly acute when the conferences are held at the same time, as occurred last week with the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and American Academy of Religion (AAR). As I’ve been attending […]
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 […]
Reading AIME
Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged AIME, cosmopolitics, Latour on November 8, 2013 | 3 Comments »
I’m just managing to keep up with the Latour/AIME reading groups (both the one on my campus and the online one organized by Adam Robbert et al.), but not so much with the commentaries. Here’s my first brief reflection on the book… 1. You know that a scholar has made it to the top of […]
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