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Nature vs. Grace?

Posted in Cinema, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on July 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The latest issue of Precipitate: Journal of the New Environmental Imagination — which looks like an excellent issue — includes a review of Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” that reminds me how important it is to pay attention to the dialogical and heteroglossic texture of Malick’s films, and how easy it is to lose […]

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Malick’s tangled bank

Posted in Cinema, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , on June 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »

  It will take some time before I can say anything very intelligible about Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. But here are some initial thoughts, for what they’re worth. (1) This is the film in which Malick just lets it go, and lets it flow…

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Anti-life… (?)

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , on June 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »

So what’s all this anti-vitalism wafting on the (post-) Continental wind? What’s it working from? (Thacker? Others?)  Is it anything more than another round of vanguardism (“not enough to revitalize matter, let’s devitalize life while we’re at it” — another version of the old Stalinist jingle about not being able to make an omelet without […]

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Tim Ingold & the liveliness of the living

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , on June 14, 2011 | 6 Comments »

A new book by Tim Ingold is always good news, especially one that — like his 2000 collection Perception of the Environment — brings together several years’ worth of work into one volume. Ingold describes Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description as “in many ways” a “sequel” to that earlier book, and it’s […]

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