Progress in Human Geography has recently published the forum “After the Anthropocene: Politics and geographic inquiry for a new epoch”. The forum participants (many of whom are frequent contributors to Geocritique) include Elizabeth Johnson and[…]
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Book forum on Woodard’s “On an Ungrounded Earth: Towards a New Geophilosophy”
EPD’s Society and Space site has hosted a book forum on Ben Woodard’s On an Ungrounded Earth: Towards a New Geophilosophy. The forum includes regular contributors to Geocritique (Kai Bosworth, Harlan Morehouse, and Rory Rowan)[…]
Claire Colebrook on Posthumanism and Extinction
Claire Colebrook has two new books out this week published by Open Humanities Press, in their excellent Critical Climate Change Series. The Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction, Volume One (available here) Sex After[…]
Radiolab: The Times They Are a-Changin’
The always excellent Radiolab discusses time, the changing length of a year, and ancient natures (20:17). Full description: At the start of this new year we crack open some fossils, peer back into ancient seas,[…]
Bruce Braun: RGS-IBG Antipode Lecture “Vital Materialism and Neoliberal Natures”
In his lecture “Vital materialism and neoliberal natures”, Bruce Braun provides rich, albeit challenging, perspectives on the under-theorized connections amongst complex systems theories, vital materialism discourses, and neoliberal natures. Drawing heavily on the work of[…]
2014 CSA Conference – Ecologies: Relations of Culture, Matter, and Power
The Cultural Studies Association has recently put out a call for proposals on the theme “Ecologies: Relations of Culture, Matter, and Power.” The conference will take place at the University of Utah, from May[…]