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On (not) being human

Posted in Media ecology, Music & soundscape, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 23, 2020 | 1 Comment »

The New York Times has published an article on AI-generated faces which strikes me as an informal litmus test of our humanity, or at least of neurotypical emotional response. Here’s how to work it. Scroll through the mega-composite image at the top of the article — do it slowly, then quickly, then varying your speed […]

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Emotional practices, part 1: Affective neuroscience

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 16, 2020 | 4 Comments »

The study of emotions, particularly within the field of affective neuroscience, is a complex field riven by paradigmatic division. In my book Shadowing the Anthropocene, I proposed a way to engage with one’s experience, including one’s emotional or affective experience, within an “eco-ethico-aesthetic” (or “logo-ethico-aesthetic”) practice that could help us deal with the “Anthropocene predicament.” […]

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neuropolitics & environmental communication

Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged , , , , , on January 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »

My article “From Frames to Resonance Machines: The Neuropolitics of Environmental Communication” is coming out in the next issue of Environmental Communication. Here’s the abstract: George Lakoff’s work in cognitive linguistics has prompted a surge in social scientists’ interest in the cognitive and neuropsychological dimensions of political discourse. Bringing cognitive neuroscience into the study of […]

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Lakoff’s environmental frames vs. Connolly’s resonance machines

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »

In Why Environmental Understanding, or “Framing,” Matters, published today on the Huffington Post (and on AlterNet), liberal framing guru George Lakoff provides a useful critique of a forthcoming EcoAmerica report on the framing of environmental and climate change issues. While his conclusions are perceptive and make the article a valuable read — I’ll get to […]

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green frames & nudges

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , on April 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Last week’s “Green Mind” issue of the New York Times Magazine shows how behavioral science is making an impact on environmental policy and decision-making. In particular, Jon Gertner’s “Why Isn’t the Brain Green?” provides a useful summary of how the trendy fields of behavioral economics and ‘decision science’ are being applied to thinking about climate […]

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from Lacan to soil, neurophysiology, & happiness

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been impressed and even moved by a few recent posts over at Larval Subjects. “Electro-Chemical Signifiers” describes the author’s transformation from full-fledged Lacanian (both theorist and analyst) to something that seems much broader and welcoming of the world. Not, of course, that Lacanians cannot be broad and welcoming of the world; I’m only judging […]

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from Huxley to Obama & NLP

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , on April 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I’ve mentioned Aldous Huxley here before. This 1958 interview with Mike Wallace shows him to be as broad-rangingly perceptive as anyone at the time – with insightful comments on persuasion techniques, Foucauldian surveillance and control (before Foucault wrote a word about the topic), television (which he thought was already “being used too much to distract […]

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