Some people believe you’re born from nothing; you live, which is something; and then you’re gone again, back to nothing. (Here’s a poignantly compressed version of that, a life in under 6 minutes.) Others believe you’re part of a much larger thing, which keeps recycling itself (including you). Maybe there’s progress or development over the […]
Posts Tagged ‘mortality’
On being a mortal
Posted in Spirit matter, tagged beliefs, Buddhism, Christianity, cosmology, humanism, immanence, indigenous philosophy, mortality, perspectives on life, reincarnation, religion, transcendence, world philosophy on May 21, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
the decay of images (& of bodies)
Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged Bergson, ecology, film, gothic, Harman, image, impermanence, mortality, photography, time on February 19, 2010 | 10 Comments »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNCI4bFoqOg&hl=en_US&fs=1& Catherine Grant’s wonderful Film Studies for Free has posted a great set of resources on film preservation as part of the Film Preservation Blogathon, which features blog posts, articles, images, videos, tweets, and rallying calls from distinguished cinephiles including Roger Ebert, David Bordwell, and others. The video above (included there) is a Studio 360 […]
Things slip away… (on Harman’s Latourian object lessons)
Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged Deleuze, Harman, Latour, mortality, object-oriented philosophy, speculative realism, Whitehead on September 9, 2009 | 33 Comments »
Continuing from yesterday’s post on Graham Harman… (Warning: This post is long.) Where Tool-Being presented a Heidegger flushed clean of his anthropocentrism, Prince of Networks takes Bruno Latour for a ride on a philosophical adventure toward a world not of actors and networks but of objects, pure if not so simple. The book’s first half […]
when bad things happen (karma running over dogma)
Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged Bennett, Buddhism, deconstruction, Deleuze, mortality, Whitehead on June 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
We live in a universe of hazard, a place where asteroids strike, where car smash-ups pluck out a life like a boot squashing a centipede, where planes fall out of the sky, a heart attack takes a brother from behind in the middle of a night, a train runs over a friend’s passed out daughter, […]
Thomas Berry passes away
Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged ecotheology, mortality on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The tributes are starting to come in for Thomas Berry, Catholic ecotheologian (or “geologian,” as he sometimes referred to himself), scholar, and spiritual/deep ecological visionary, who passed away at age 94 yesterday. Berry is best known for books including The Dream of the Earth, The Universe Story (with physicist Brian Swimme), and The Great Work, […]
out of the blue (Glen Elder passes away)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged mortality on May 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m very sad to hear that a friend and colleague, geographer and Africanist Glen Elder, has passed away following a heart attack. Glen was a warmhearted, passionate scholar, former chair of Geography and current Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Vermont. He had just given a captivating performance as master of […]
amidst the ruins of Motor City
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, Visual culture, tagged anarchism, landscape, mortality, nature, ruins, urban blight, urban studies on April 13, 2009 | 20 Comments »
As goes Motor City, so should go the world – or at least eco-activists might like to argue that. The archetypal home of American car culture, Detroit, has been decaying for years. It’s now collapsed from a city of two million to less than half of that, and in the process it has opened up […]
finger pointing at the moon
Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged eco-art, gothic, immanence, impermanence, mortality, pantheism, time on April 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I know it’s just that they’ve touched my inner goth, but these graveyard photographs really do express something of what I find most appealing about the idea of immanence — that death is in the midst of life, the two entwined like the dying branches encircling the face of living stone in Onkel Wart’s photograph: […]
polar bag
Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged animals, animism, eco-art, ecomedia, mortality on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ambient electroacoustic artists Stars of the Lid do a beautiful job with thisEnvironmental Defense Fund NYC subway ad campaign video. The other ads in the series can be viewed here.
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