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Immanence provides news and views at the intersections of ecology, culture, politics, media, and philosophy. Its focus is the theory and practice of how humans make sense of, and respond to, the eco-political and eco-cultural challenges of our time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In fusing the “eco-” of ecology with “politics” and “culture,” Immanence grounds itself in the assumption that politics and culture in the twenty-first century can hardly avoid<\/em> ecology, and that effectively dealing with the world’s deepening ecological challenges — global climate change among them — requires methods and strategies that draw on and creatively reinvent our cultural and political practices.<\/p>\n

Immanence is maintained and mostly written by Adrian Ivakhiv<\/a>, J. S. Woodsworth Chair<\/a> in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University<\/a> (and until recently Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture at the University of Vermont).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Primer<\/a> page and the Faves<\/a> page provide two ways of exploring the blog; the “Categories,” found at the top of the right-hand side-bar (and described on the Explore<\/a> page), provide another.<\/p>\n

You can subscribe to Immanence for free from the home page<\/a>\u00a0(find \u201cSubscribe\u201d in the sidebar) or through a feed reader like\u00a0Feedly<\/a>,\u00a0Inoreader<\/a>, or\u00a0Newsblur<\/a>. And you can follow it on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>. Guest submission proposals are welcome.<\/p>\n

The longer story<\/strong><\/p>\n

Immanence began in 2009 as an online space for ecocultural theory. The blog was originally conceived to serve as a forum for thinking in and around the Environmental Thought and Culture Graduate Concentration<\/a> at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont. While its focus has evolved over the years, its general goal remains to be a useful resource for scholars and for the interested public.<\/p>\n

An earlier iteration of the blog defined its two main focus areas as these:<\/p>\n

(1) To communicate about issues arising at the intersections of ecological, political, and cultural thought and practice, especially at the interdisciplinary junctures forming in and around the fields of ecocriticism<\/a>, green cultural studies<\/a>, political ecology<\/a>, environmental communication<\/a>, ecophilosophy, and related areas (biosemiotics<\/a>, geophilosophy<\/a>, social nature<\/a>, poststructuralist<\/a>, decolonial<\/a>, and liberation<\/a> ecologies,\u00a0zoontologies<\/a>, multispecies studies, urbanatures, animist liberation theologies — invent your own neologisms) — in other words, in the broad domain frequently referred to as the environmental humanities<\/a>; and<\/p>\n

(2) To contribute to the development of a synthetic and “non-dualist” understanding of nature\/culture, mind\/body, spirit\/matter, structure\/agency, and worldly relations in general. Dualisms aren\u2019t inherently bad, but these ones have become stultifying; they contribute to the log-jam in which environmental thinking has been caught for too long. To this end, the blog has pursued philosophies of process<\/a>, ontologies <\/a>of immanence<\/a> and becoming, and epistemologies <\/a>of participation, relation, and dialogue \u2013 that is, ways of understanding and acting that take ideas and practices, bodies and minds, subjects and objects, perceptions and representations, agency and structure, to be fundamentally inseparable, creative, and always in motion.<\/p>\n

For more on these topics, see the posts on immanence<\/a>, immanent naturalism<\/a>, geophilosophy<\/a>, green cultural studies<\/a>, and the various posts listed on the Primer page<\/a>,\u00a0including the introduction to process-relational theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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