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(Mc)Mindfulness?

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 22, 2019 | 2 Comments »

A Guardian article making the rounds on social media argues that the mindfulness movement has become “the new capitalist spirituality” — “magical thinking on steroids,” which instead of overturning the “neoliberal order,” now “only serves to reinforce its destructive logic.” This “McMindfulness,” as Ronald Purser calls it, has been “stripped of the teachings on ethics […]

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Time for eco-revolution (a manifesto)

Posted in Anthropocene, Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 28, 2018 | 9 Comments »

Inspired by the daily litany of depressing news (and by reading Latour’s Down to Earth), I’ve succumbed to the temptation of writing a manifesto. Manifestos are cheap, I know, but we have to start somewhere. (And so many questions arise as you write one: about the proper balance between critique and vision, between generality and […]

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Latour’s terrestrial project

Posted in Climate change, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , on October 28, 2018 | 2 Comments »

Review of Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2018. Down to Earth is in significant part a restatement of Bruno Latour’s theorizing over the last few decades, made more incisive in the light of Trumpism (and other illiberal populisms) and brought to bear specifically on the moment of […]

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Returning to Sedona

Posted in Eco-culture, Science & society, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 20, 2016 | 1 Comment »

Three things have drawn me repeatedly to the red rock landscape around the small north-central Arizona city of Sedona. First, and most obvious, is the landscape itself, which counts among the most distinctive and stunningly beautiful in the world. Second is the set of processes that landscape has set in motion in the conditions of late capitalist […]

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The joy (& loneliness) of being interdisciplinarian

Posted in Academe, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on December 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »

What makes an -ologist, -osopher, -ographer? What, for instance, makes one an anthropologist? A geographer? A philosopher? A scientist? Scene 1: As chair of a search committee looking to hire a political ecologist, a tenure-track position to be shared between a Geography department and an Environmental Studies program, I’ve been involved in intensive discussion of […]

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Political Ecology position

Posted in Academe, tagged , , on September 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

We’re been given the green light to announce the following tenure-track position in Environmental Studies and Geography. I’m chairing the Search Committee. Please pass it on to anyone you think will be interested. Review of applications will begin November 15.  The Department of Geography and the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Vermont invite […]

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Observations: politics – media – empathy

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , , on March 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »

A few observations from the events of the last week or so: (1) Tsunamis happen. When they do, in a globally media-connected world, they bring us all a little closer together. (Not all of us; those who don’t wish to be brought closer may drift further apart. But, to risk getting overly psychoanalytical, those who’ve […]

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authoritarian body politics

Posted in Cinema, Politics, tagged , , , , on February 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »

(This post has been sitting in my Drafts folder for several days, but since it mentions The White Ribbon, which I just named 2009’s best film, I thought I might as well share it.) I just got around to reading Timothy Snyder’s brilliantly lucid article Holocaust: The ignored reality, fittingly after recently seeing Michael Haneke’s […]

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Hell, nature, & justice in Haiti

Posted in Cinema, Media ecology, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged , , on January 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »

What do we do in the aftermath of such a disaster, except to express profound sadness, shock, and sympathy, and to send donations to aid and relief organizations working in the affected areas? How do we even portray it in a way that respects the victims? Citizen media, according to Media Nation blogger Dan Kennedy, […]

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open-source socialism & the politics of self-organizing systems

Posted in Media ecology, Philosophy, Politics, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , on May 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »

(On Kevin Kelly’s “The New Socialism,” Paul Ward’s Medea Hypothesis, Steven Shaviro’s “Against Self-Organization,” and more.) Self-organizing adaptive systems and other networks are more than just the flavor of the philosophical month; they are a model increasingly used to make sense of the natural and cultural worlds. Generally it’s assumed that such distributed self-organization is […]

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Story of scary Stuff

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , on May 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvU_vhopKKc&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 Environmental pied piper Annie Leonard’s 20-minute teaching video The Story of Stuff got five minutes of frantic Fox News treatment a few days ago — which means it’s making an impact out there in the wilds of America. New York Times Education writer Leslie Kaufman, writing about it on Sunday, noted that six million […]

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About this blog

Posted in Blog stuff, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , on February 26, 2009 | 36 Comments »

An online space for environmental cultural theory, this weblog has two primary objectives: (1) To communicate about issues at the intersection of ecological, political, and cultural thought and practice, especially at the interdisciplinary junctures forming in and around the fields of ecocriticism , green cultural studies, political ecology, environmental communication, ecophilosophy, and related areas (biosemiotics, […]

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