Environment and Planning D’s always excellent “Society and Space” open site has recently uploaded an interview with Elizabeth Grosz, conducted by Kathryn Yusoff. In this interview Grosz discusses her new book about questions of ontology and…
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…
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 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…
In a forthcoming piece (available in advance here (pdf)) for the new journal The Anthropocene Review, Andreas Malm and Alf Hornborg pose an interesting and important challenge to some prevailing discourses of the Anthropocene. Among…
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,…
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…
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…
EPD’s Society and Space site has posted an interview with Monique Allewaert on her new book, Ariel’s Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics. It’s an excellent exchange that ranges from afrofuturism to…
Over at Immanence, Adrian Ivakhiv provides a generative overview of the “Querying Natural Religion: Immanence, Gaia, and the Parliament of Lively Things” panel at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting held recently in Baltimore.…