As a Canadian who has long valued this country’s differences from the United States, I’m as concerned as anyone about the Trump administration’s threats of annexation toward Canada. This is mostly for obvious reasons: threats of annexation against sovereign nations violate Article One of the United Nations charter, and these threats are being made in […]
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Trump’s border frenzy: a tale of two elephants
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged annexation, bioregionalism, Canada, Canada-US relations, colinization, decolonialism, earthbound, ecoregionalism, Latour, tariffs, Trump on March 18, 2025 | Leave a Comment »
Eco+Deco, a manifesto in progress
Posted in Cultural politics, Eco-theory, Manifestos & auguries, Science & society, tagged colonialism, coloniality, decolonialism, Decolonization, ecological science, ecologization, ecology, indigeneity, indigenization, land, Latour, manifestos, Ontology, postcolonialism, reindigenization, Toronto Biennale of Art on May 31, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
Some of the best art exhibitions today show that the socially engaged art world is undergoing two shifts that some of us in the environmental humanities have been advocating for some time: they ecologize and they decolonize. An excellent example of this is the second edition of the Toronto Biennale of Art, currently wrapping up […]
Long-term civilizational prognosis: a hypothesis
Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, Spirit matter, tagged abduction, C. S. Peirce, civilizational crisis, climate crisis, climate emergency, eco-religion, global civil religion, global disorder, globalism, Latour, politics of meaning, religion, Varela on October 14, 2019 | 3 Comments »
Here’s a hypothesis: If the human community exists in some more or less unified form in 880 years (in the year 3000 by our calendar), that feat will have been accomplished, at least in part, in and through the emergence of an ecological religion. What does this mean, and how could we test it? Religion, […]
Fort McMurray as fictive image
Posted in Climate change, Visual culture, tagged Anthropocene, 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 Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged Harman, Latour, object-oriented philosophy, speculative realism on June 9, 2015 | 24 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, Media ecology, 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 Philosophy, tagged anthropology, Descola, Kohn, Latour, ontological turn, Ontology, epistemology, 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 Music & 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 Eco-culture, Philosophy, 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, epistemology 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 Anthropocene, Philosophy, Spirit matter, 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 […]
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