Culturing Nature: Ecology, Gaia, and the Parliament of Lively Things<\/a>.”<\/p>\nContent: the Two Cultures,\u00a0“science wars” and “nature wars,” Whitehead, Stengers, and Latour, imagery and the Anthropocene (from Bosch to Pollock to the\u00a0undersea art of Jason deCaires Taylor), and a few thoughts on what a unified post-social constructionist, post-scientistic, post-humanist paradigm might look like.<\/p>\n
A generalized mishmash, in other words.\u00a0Suitable for a solsticial\u00a0gathering. But not too much. The question is what to keep\u00a0in, and what to leave on the cutting room floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ll be the guest speaker at the Environmental Studies colloquium at the Antioch University New England Graduate School tomorrow. 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