geophilosophy

1 min read 2021-08-12 07:49:52

Through an Anthropo(s)cenic Glass, Darkly

My thinking about the Anthropocenic predicament continues to be informed, even haunted, by Andrei Tarkovsky’s films Solaris and Stalker, along with

1 min read 2021-04-01 00:52:43

Theory has a mobile army of metaphors that account for its own importance. The vanguardist notion of a “cutting edge” has long served as a

1 min read 2021-03-15 22:46:15

Reading Nigel Clark and Bron Szerszynski’s just published Planetary Social Thought: The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences is helping me

1 min read 2021-03-13 04:20:05

I had been avoiding the Whitehead Research Project‘s monthly reading groups because of conflicts with other scheduled activities, but today I

1 min read 2021-02-19 20:42:15

In my writing about media, I’ve been using the words “ecology” and “ecosystem” fairly liberally (for instance, here). In a new piece called

1 min read 2020-12-18 23:29:21

Ten years ago, I posted an article on this blog with the exact same title as this one. It was enjoyable, at the time, to create a list of ten books I

1 min read 2014-09-14 22:32:09

The massiveness of the nuclear is ‘lightened’ only by a catastrophe. The Earth is geophilosophically and geopolitically frustrating because