{"id":11938,"date":"2021-06-14T07:50:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T12:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=11938"},"modified":"2021-06-14T07:50:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T12:50:57","slug":"some-blog-tweaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2021\/06\/14\/some-blog-tweaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Some blog tweaks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the interests of improving the archivability, searchability, and general user-friendliness of this blog, I&#8217;ve changed some of the &#8220;Categories&#8221; and added several more to the list. (If you&#8217;ve been a subscriber to any of them, you may need to resubscribe under the changed label.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quick explanation: &#8220;Categories,&#8221; which are listed at the top of the sidebar on your right, classify blog posts into topics. These can be read in isolation from others, more easily searched, and subscribed to individually. So, for instance, if you are most interested in reading what&#8217;s been published here on the topics of climate change, media, and debates over the Anthropocene, but couldn&#8217;t care less about philosophy, politics, music, or film and cinema, you could subscribe to the &#8220;Anthropocene,&#8221; &#8220;Climate politics,&#8221; and &#8220;Media ecology&#8221; categories. To subscribe to individual categories, go to &#8220;Subscribe2&#8221; in the right-hand sidebar. Or you could of course just visit periodically, click on the categories you&#8217;re interested in, and scroll through what you&#8217;ve been missing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The subscribe box <em>above <\/em>that one (in the sidebar) gives you the option of subscribing to everything, so that all new posts go directly into your e-mail In-box. Alternatively, you can subscribe through an external <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpsuperstars.net\/free-rss-feed-readers\/\">feed reader<\/a>, like <a href=\"https:\/\/feedly.com\/i\/my\">Feedly<\/a> (my favorite), <a href=\"https:\/\/theoldreader.com\/\">The Old Reader<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsblur.com\/\">NewsBlur<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.click\/\">Good News<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several other ways to find things archived on this blog. The <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/p-r-theory\/\">Primer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/favorites\/\">Faves<\/a> pages, which I&#8217;ve also brushed up a bit, are only updated periodically, but are useful for getting a sense of what can be found here. They are tabbed at the top of every page. The Categories, by contrast, update automatically with each new post. Then there are &#8220;tags,&#8221; which can be found at the bottom of each post (the most popular ones are <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/favorites\/\">listed here<\/a>). Tags can only be found from other tags (or from searches); they are a lateral sort of tagging instrument. Categories are &#8220;mega-tags&#8221; that create big bins.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve also added a couple more things in the right-hand sidebar: namely, a list of image-linked &#8220;Top posts and pages&#8221; and a list of &#8220;Popular resources&#8221; (where I have put things like my &#8220;Lyme &amp; beyond&#8221; bibliographic resource, book review lists, and similar things).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope these tweaks are helpful. Let me know if you have any other suggestions for improving the usefulness of this online space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, a quiz question: which category will <em>this<\/em> post get archived into? That&#8217;s right: &#8220;Blog stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/238479742739606368\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2021\/06\/7a51d26a23fe1b8d328d9a93f977cfb3-400x266.jpeg?resize=400%2C266&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2021\/06\/7a51d26a23fe1b8d328d9a93f977cfb3.jpeg?resize=400%2C266&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2021\/06\/7a51d26a23fe1b8d328d9a93f977cfb3.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2021\/06\/7a51d26a23fe1b8d328d9a93f977cfb3.jpeg?resize=275%2C183&amp;ssl=1 275w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2021\/06\/7a51d26a23fe1b8d328d9a93f977cfb3.jpeg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the interests of improving the archivability, searchability, and general user-friendliness of this blog, I&#8217;ve changed some of the &#8220;Categories&#8221; and added several more to the list. (If you&#8217;ve been a subscriber to any of them, you may need to resubscribe under the changed label.) Quick explanation: &#8220;Categories,&#8221; which are listed at the top of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688385],"tags":[16852,53473],"class_list":["post-11938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog_stuff","tag-archive","tag-categories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-36y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9925,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2018\/11\/07\/koinocene-or-coenocene\/","url_meta":{"origin":11938,"position":0},"title":"Koinocene (or C\u0153nocene)?","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"November 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Peircian thinker Gary Fuhrman has posted an interesting piece on the naming of the Anthropocene, entitled Holocenoscopy. Noting that the word\u00a0Holocene\u00a0means nothing more than \"entirely recent,\" as opposed to the Pleistocene, which means \"most recent,\" so there's really nowhere left to go with naming geological periods after their recentness, Fuhrman\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthropocene&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthropocene","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/anthropo_scene\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8265,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/07\/21\/bandwagocene\/","url_meta":{"origin":11938,"position":1},"title":"Bandwagocene","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"July 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"These days, it takes a course release for an academic to keep up with the avalanche of books\u00a0being published with titles that feature the word \"Anthropocene.\" To read them would take a sabbatical. Doing anything approximating a \"slow read\" would require, well, retirement. But that's no reason not to try.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthropocene&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthropocene","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/anthropo_scene\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8747,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2016\/05\/07\/wark-on-the-geopolitics-of-the-anthropocene\/","url_meta":{"origin":11938,"position":2},"title":"Wark on the geopolitics of the Anthropocene","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"May 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"McKenzie Wark has written a very provocative piece on the geopolitics of the Anthropocene, or what he calls \"The Geopolitics of Hibernation.\" A quote:\u00a0 \"Resource wars are no new thing. They are a defining feature of the history of geopolitics. But perhaps the resource wars of the Anthropocene have some\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthropocene&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthropocene","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/anthropo_scene\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11559,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2021\/01\/29\/eco-humanities-seminar\/","url_meta":{"origin":11938,"position":3},"title":"Eco-humanities seminar","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"January 29, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I will be making parts of my \"Advanced Environmental Humanities\" course open to the EcoCultureLab community and a limited broader public. Technical details remain to be worked out, but I'd like to make our readings and discussions open, so as to include interested participants from outside the university community. The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academe&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academe","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/academe\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2021\/02\/Juxtapoz_Marzorati1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2021\/02\/Juxtapoz_Marzorati1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2021\/02\/Juxtapoz_Marzorati1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2021\/02\/Juxtapoz_Marzorati1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7806,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/09\/30\/upcoming-ecomusics-climate-change-culture-etc\/","url_meta":{"origin":11938,"position":4},"title":"Upcoming: ecomusics, climate change culture, etc.","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"September 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I am about to travel to Asheville, North Carolina, for\u00a0the\u00a0Ecomusics and Ecomusicologies\u00a0conference, to be held from Thursday through Monday at the University of North Carolina Asheville.\u00a0The international conference, which has become an annual event (it met previously in Brisbane, Australia, and in New Orleans), brings together\u00a0theorists and researchers with performers\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music &amp; soundscape&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music &amp; soundscape","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/music-soundscape\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9722,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2018\/06\/20\/10-years-of-late-holocene-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":11938,"position":5},"title":"10 years (of Late Holocene life)","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"June 20, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"(Or twice the video below.) Immanence passed its tenth anniversary last month and somehow failed to celebrate it. (The actual anniversary, May 11, marks the posting of\u00a0this two-line fragment.\u00a0Regular posts took another seven months to appear, or at least to take on a permanent form.) To celebrate, I recently re-did\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthropocene&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthropocene","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/anthropo_scene\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/EkCc_qiI7UA\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11938"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11974,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11938\/revisions\/11974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}