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Woodsworth Chair: Three challenges

Posted in Academe, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 22, 2023 | 6 Comments »

I’m delighted to formally announce that I have accepted an offer to take up the position of J. S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, beginning next year. (Simon Fraser recently, once again, took the top spot among comprehensive universities in Macleans’ Canadian university rankings.) The chair is named after J. S. Woodsworth (1874-1942), […]

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Posthumanist redistributions of the sensible

Posted in Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 31, 2021 | 3 Comments »

Theory has a mobile army of metaphors that account for its own importance. The vanguardist notion of a “cutting edge” has long served as a paradigmatic metaphor for theoretical innovation, and it’s one I take issue with in my article “Is the Post- in Posthuman the Post- in Postmodern? Or What Can the Human Be?,” […]

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Planet of Some Humans

Posted in Cinema, Climate change, Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 1, 2020 | 5 Comments »

This past week has seen a firestorm of reaction among environmentalists and climate and energy scientists to the online release of the film Planet of the Humans. Written, directed, and produced by first-time director Jeff Gibbs, but — much more importantly — executive-produced and actively promoted by Michael Moore, the film is incendiary and intentionally […]

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