10 years (of Late Holocene life)

Adrian J Ivakhiv on immanence

(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 this two-line fragment. Regular posts t […]

Skipping an Earthbeat

Adrian J Ivakhiv on immanence

Reading Bill McGuire’s 2012 book Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes, I came across this description of the annual “pulse” called an “Earthbeat,” which is […]

Welcome to the Feverish World (CFP)

Adrian J Ivakhiv on immanence

Please circulate widely… FEVERISH WORLD 2018-2068: ARTS & SCIENCES OF COLLECTIVE SURVIVAL  A Symposium and Convergence in Burlington, Vermont, October 20-22, 2018 Fifty years after the widespread i […]

What's the big deal? Or, whither universities...

Adrian J Ivakhiv on immanence

A post-Commencement pep talk for myself (& academic friends who care to listen) It should be pretty obvious by now that predatory, extractive capitalism is not working, and that we need to move swiftly to a […]

Pointing to Omega?

Adrian J Ivakhiv on immanence

Okay, so I watched Harry and Meghan’s royal wedding (not so much intentionally as to enjoy the loving company of my co-habitants) and was impressed by the tension between Bishop Michael Curry’s sermonizing on love […]

(Fore)shadowing

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Coming soon… “volcanic eruptions and revolutions, ant cities and dog parks, data clouds and space junk, pagan gods and sacrificial altars, dark flow, souls (of things), and jazz”

Anthropo(s)cenic Chernobyl* in image & text

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My Gund Institute research talk from a few months ago, on “Navigating Earth’s ‘Zone of Alienation’: Chernobyl and the Search for Adequate Images of the Anthropocene,” can now be viewed online (see link below). It […]

The 5 D's

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… that might get humans to pull through the next few centuries relatively intact as a species (if not undiminished or unscathed): Decarbonization, Deplasticization, Demilitarization, Decolonization, and […]

The academic life (thoughts for the beginning of spring)

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Or, Things I love, like, dislike, and hate about it… I love that I can research, write, talk, think, and teach about things that I’m passionate about, or at least care very much about. And because that […]

Comparative 'practicology': Philosophy as a way of life

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This course (an Honors College course I’m happy to be to teaching this year) is already in progress, but I’d be curious to hear any comments on it. What would you include in a comparative overview of spiritual […]

Rant for the day

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Let’s face facts: Life in such cold climates as the one I live in (it was 8°F/-14°C here this morning) would hardly be possible, for us in such numbers as we are, without fossil fuels. The harnessing of fos […]

Beyond sustainability's 3 pillars: an exercise in eco-political ontology

Adrian J Ivakhiv on immanence

It’s become a cliché for people in environmental, policy, and even corporate circles to talk about the “triple bottom-line,” or the “three pillars” or “three-legged stool,” of sustainability. Those “pillars” are a […]

"These people are sick..."

Adrian J Ivakhiv on UKR-TAZ

The border war in eastern Ukraine is, it turns out, also about art. Or so this video (below) suggests. It was made in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, after its military occupation by the separatist “Donetsk People’s […]

"Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock"

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The Wabunowin Dawn Society in collaboration with the University of Vermont Environmental Program and the Steven Rubenstein Professorship for Environment and Natural Resources will be screening the new documentary […]

Fugitive radioactivity

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Cross-posted from Immanence… The Washington Post reports that “Ruthenium-106, named after Russia” has been wafting all across Europe. Two quick observations here. (1) “Ruthenia” is the Latin […]

Fugitive radioactivity

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The Washington Post reports that “Ruthenium-106, named after Russia” has been wafting all across Europe. Two quick observations here. (1) “Ruthenia” is the Latin rendering of Rus’, which predates […]

The frame game

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Spin the dial and see where it lands. Take several steps in that direction. Look around. Spin again. 1. Struggle, or The World at War Frame: We are at war. The war is between the good guys and the bad guys. […]

Ontology, decoloniality, and the people-land nexus

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Here’s something I’ve written to accompany a reading and discussion of Arturo Escobar’s piece “Thinking-feeling with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimensions of the Epistemologies of the […]

John Elder talk on community & sustainability

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Middlebury College professor emeritus and author John Elder gave the second Eco-Arts and Humanities talk this year, at Ira Allen Chapel on October 18, 2017. It was entitled “Stay together,/learn the […]

This IS nature, guys...

Adrian J Ivakhiv on immanence

There is an irony in The Nature Conservancy’s headline heralding a “new study” that “finds nature is vital to beating climate change.” The sub-title adds that “Nature could cost-effectively deliver over a […]