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“Ontology Across the Disciplines” reading group

Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , , , 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, I […]

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Upcoming: ecomusics, climate change culture, etc.

Posted in SoundScape, tagged , , , , , , , 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 […]

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Toronto talk: Ukraine’s anomalous Zone

Posted in EcoCulture, GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , 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, […]

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Ontologies of bilocation

Posted in Academe, tagged , , , 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 […]

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Querying Natural Religion: Responses to Latour

Posted in GeoPhilosophy, SpiritMatter, tagged , , , , on November 24, 2013 | 5 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 […]

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Imminently in Baltimore

Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , 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 […]

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Reading AIME

Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , 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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Latourian inquiries

Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , on August 22, 2013 | 2 Comments »

Bruno Latour fans will know that the French anthropologist’s long-awaited follow-up to 1991’s game-changing theoretical provocation We Have Never Been Modern was released in its English translation just a few weeks ago. The book is called An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence (and is becoming better known by its acronym “AIME”), and it provides a […]

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AAR panel on Latour’s Gifford Lectures

Posted in Academe, GeoPhilosophy, SpiritMatter, tagged , , , , 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

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The beatnik brotherhood

Posted in GeoPhilosophy, tagged , , , , , , on May 25, 2011 | 5 Comments »

Graham Harman’s note reiterating his position that Whitehead, Latour, Deleuze, Bergson, and Simondon (among others) do not make up a coherent philosophical “lump” — “pack” or “tribe” might be more colorful terms here (if philosophers were cats, how herdable would they be?) — makes me want to clarify my own position on these thinkers.

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