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Camera as anaconda

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Music & soundscape, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 8, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

To say that Billie Eilish’s “Your Power” video is intended to get under your skin (as many online commenters have suggested) is understating things. First, there the topic of the song itself (which I won’t comment on). Then there’s the interspecies intimacy (which I also won’t comment on, except to say, I can’t imagine doing […]

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Zone as metaphor, metaphor as Zone

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 13, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

My book Ecologies of the Moving Image takes Andrei Tarkovsky’s Zone, so richly depicted in his celebrated 1979 film Stalker, as a kind of master metaphor for how cinema works and, by implication, how art in general works: it beckons its receiver into following it into a zone where, at best, anything can happen. The […]

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Ecologizing Radiohead

Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Music & soundscape, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 21, 2021 | 2 Comments »

What better way to understand ecological perception than by applying it to a study of the music of Radiohead, right? Okay, I’ll explain. “Ecological perception” is not what you might think. (And it isn’t what I, in my writing, call “perceptual ecology.“) It is a psychological theory that studies the perception of an organism (such […]

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Why three ecologies?

Posted in Eco-theory, Media ecology, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 15, 2021 | 1 Comment »

French philosopher and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, in his The Three Ecologies, was the first to articulate the threefold nature of ecology, but he failed to provide a clear articulation of why there should be three and only three ecologies — not two, not one, not four or more. What is the ontological justification for this […]

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Process-relational ecologies: querying some terms

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Science & society, tagged , , , , , , on April 11, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

It’s wonderful to see that process-relational theory is getting noticed in the study of social-ecological systems. A new article in Ecology and Society, Garcia et al’s “Adopting process-relational perspectives to tackle the challenges of social-ecological systems research,” argues that a process-relational perspective, “which focuses on nonequilibrium dynamics and relations between processes,” can help the field […]

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Process-relational readings

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on March 21, 2020 | 1 Comment »

A very helpful analytical review of the “relational paradigm in sustainability research, practice, and education” has just been published online by Ambio. While it’s limited to a certain selection of key publications, the article, by European sustainabililty researchers Zack Walsh, Jessica Bohme, and Christine Wamsler, covers the terrain of “relational approaches” to ontology, epistemology, and […]

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The second ontological twist

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on July 10, 2019 | Leave a Comment »

I keep trying to rephrase the second piece of the “double insight” — or two ontological “twists” — around which the philosophical argument of Shadowing the Anthropocene (and Ecologies of the Moving Image) is woven. The first insight is the process-relational one, which is at the core of both A. N. Whitehead’s metaphysics and many variations […]

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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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Updated process-relational theory primer

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , on June 2, 2019 | Leave a Comment »

I originally presented a “primer” to process-relational philosophy on this blog back in 2010. A substantially updated version of it is part of my book, Shadowing the Anthropocene. Here it is as a stand-alone, 10-page PDF file.

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Shadowing the Anthropocene: a reader’s guide

Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 13, 2018 | 8 Comments »

Here’s the “reader’s guide” I promised for Shadowing the Anthropocene. It begins with a quick summary of the book’s main contribution — a kind of “master key” to what it tries to do. It then lays out a set of paths one can take through the book, which would be useful for readers with an […]

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Shadowing the Anthropocene

Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-theory, Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on October 9, 2018 | 3 Comments »

Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times arrived in the mail today. It’s published by punctum books, an open-access academic and para-academic publisher I’ve found to be a real delight to work with. Eileen Joy deserves a medal for her leadership of punctum, and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei’s cover and book design is beautiful. The book […]

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Greatest albums of the LP era

Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 8, 2017 | 8 Comments »

The recent social media meme listing 10 concerts people have attended accompanied by one they didn’t (“find the lie!”) has incited me to complete a list that started out as a “50th anniversary of the concept album” brainstorm over drinks one night last year. The question here is a little different: What are the most formative and […]

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