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New Lives of Images: conversation with Am Johal

Posted in Anthropocene, Cultural politics, Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 22, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

On November 20, Am Johal and I held a book launching conversation for The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds. The event took place at Simon Fraser University’s Harbour Centre in downtown Vancouver. A podcast from the event is being prepared for Below the Radar: A Knowledge Democracy Podcast. […]

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Process semiotics, in a nutshell

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , , on September 2, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

It’s what informs my analysis of images, imagination, and the digital in The New Lives of Images. Here is the three-minute version of it. The universe is a living, dynamic, and responsive universe. It is made not of static objects, but of events — events which elicit other events. Its most basic unit is an […]

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“New Lives” is here

Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , , on August 28, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve just gotten my hands on an advance print copy of The New Lives of Images, and it looks and feels wonderful to hold and handle. I’m quite happy with what Stanford University Press has done with the book — the artwork, the typography, and the entire editorial and publication process was and is commendable. […]

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Forthcoming books

Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 17, 2025 | 1 Comment »

I’m happy to share the news that both The New Lives of Images and Terra Invicta are now available for pre-order. The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds is a theoretically and empirically rich study of images, imagination, and the digital. It’s the fourth in a tetralogy of books […]

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Heading (south and) west

Posted in Blog stuff, tagged , , , on December 11, 2021 | 1 Comment »

It’s been a few weeks since the last post on this blog, and will likely be another month before it starts up again in any serious way. This is because the fall semester has been wrapping up around me, with teaching, advising, and an overload of academic committee work building up to a rather deafening […]

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Scenes in the image-world

Posted in Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , on June 26, 2020 | 2 Comments »

Here’s a preview in section headings of the book I’m currently writing. It presents a way of thinking about images, what they’ve done for people, and how all of that figures into the contemporary world of digital media. It then applies that way of thinking to three sets of images: about humans as the stars […]

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