Zooetics Roundtable (MP3)

This was really nice.    Featuring me, Gediminas Urbonas, Tracey Warr, Jae Rhim Lee, John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog.

Agrilogistics Rampant

This is what in Greek tragedy, that agrilogistical mode kat' exochēn , is called hubris . Fantastic example of doubling down, alias a po...

Melt the Guns

Jesus H. Christ on a stick .

I Believe in Coral (MP3)

My Zooetics lecture from Lithuania. More to follow!

Graham and I in Bergen, mid-January

Thanks to Martin Clark we shall be here . It's a very interesting sounding exhibition. I loved Riddley Walker  when I was a kid and Grah...

Meanwhile, Tommy...

Poor chimp . The judge is being a bit circular, no, saying that he has no legal standing? Of course he doesn't, because you just determi...

Nonhuman Person

...in the shape of an Argentinian orangutan . Thanks Amanda! " Lawyers for Argentina's Association of Professional Lawyers for Anim...

Official Recognition that Some Nonhumans Have Culture

Thank you UN Convention on Migratory Species ... That best of bees thing is getting more and more implausible by the day...

Morton on Zooetics (video)

This is an excellent piece of work. And luckily I was able to string a sentence together about the event...

Wordsworth Yule

I just got this from the Wordsworth people, in particular, Jeff Cowton. Nice one!

Zooetics Video

Here it is--four hours of Christmas Eve de-anthropocentrism. Love it. Everything about this conference and the visit to Lithuania were perfe...

Facebook Zooetics

Is here and you should be part of it. It's a five year project people! Get in on the ground floor!

Zooetics Speakers

Include Jae Rhim Lee of the mushroom death suit ...me...and more... Sign me up for that death suit.

Zooetics Streaming

On YouTube. If you want to ask a question on Twitter it's #zooetics

Zooetics

Poetics, zoo ethics, zoo aesthetics ... It's all here and I strongly urge you to get to Kaunas for the free talks on Friday. Vilnius is ...

Nice Things in Finland (cfp)

I'll be there!  Call for proposals: 4 th Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts 2015 at the University of the Arts Helsinki...

Poison into Medicine

The environmental art of Liina Klauss . Should've posted these way before this. Taking plastic flotsam and jetsam and finding the rainbo...

OOO Dream

I dreamt about OOO. Not only dreamt about it, but dreamt about giving a lecture on it. And not just that--the lecture was totally coherent! ...

"We've Got the Best, Most Sophisticated Online Consumers in the World"

...all right BBC, every time this sort of thing happens (heard just now on the Today show), this will now happen:

Morton on the Singularity (interview)

Eight minutes of almost hilarity. It's about twenty minutes in.

Congratulations Bryan Wallis

You got yourself a PhD my man! Two in a week! Yes! Bryan has recovered Wendell Berry for ecocriticism and ecological philosophy. In these ti...

Congratulations Will Elliott

Will submitted his PhD at UC Davis this week. It's about everything Alaska and everything environmental and it's utterly brilliant. ...

Radio Interview Today

On the dreaded notion of “the Singularity.” It'll be on KUHF (88.7FM), Houston Matters  at noon (central time).

Stop Injecting Moocows with Antibiotics

...or lots of human will have died by 2050 . It will cost $100 trillion . Nice one to the economist who put this together.

Red

The beats are just amazing live.

You're an Imperialist!

And other bad things! Because you are interested in nonhuman beings!

Narrative

I'm back into it. It was hard when very depressed. I wonder why. Perhaps it's because the quasi telepathy you get when you read narr...

Viktorija Siaulyte

Curator of this , and organizer of Zooetics.

Tracey Warr

Tracey is another of the auspicious organizers of Zooetics.

Nomeda Urbonas

And here is another organizer's website . Great yes?

Gediminas Urbonas

And here is the website of one of the great organizers of this auspicious event. I'm so looking forward to it!

Talking with Jae Rhim Lee

Of the mushroom death suits . Oh YES. What an incredible event this is going to be. You can book tickets through eventbrite. Scroll.

Lithuania Next Week

Look at this beautiful website and tell me you don't want to come.

50 000

Finishing the first draft of Dark Ecology today. It's exactly the length I wanted it to be without trying. I'm so happy about it all...

Blackmail

Wow. The first time I've heard, in four years, the BBC Today show express anything like doubt about the Tories' policies was yester...

Terror from Within

I Can't Breathe

"When Does Your Humanity Kick In?"

Nicely put Al Sharpton .

Debt Scolds Were Wrong, Are Wrong and Will Be Wrong

Our deficit is 3% of GDP. The UK's is 11%. Why? Because of massive cuts to “offset” stimuli put in place by the scapegoat, Gordon Brown....

Deficit

George Osbourne, 2:1 (3.2 GPA) in History, why is the deficit in the USA lower relatively than in the UK? Because we didn't do as much a...

She Is Wearing Roadkill

Is that good ?

Emissions: An Interactive History

Thanks World Resources Institute! Use the slider or hit play.

You're Divine

Hey I found one of the tunes the Gandharvas were spinning at that planetary rave I was talking about .

The Heart Sutra Mantra, Ecosexually Translated

GET DOWN GET DOWN GET RIGHT DOWN WITH IT SO FAR INTO IT BINGO I prefer this to Philip Whalen's beat one (sorry!) GONE GONE REALLY GONE I...

Ecosexual Buddha

Does this help? If you read this famous sutra with quotation marks in it, you will understand it better. Avalokiteshvara isn't saying th...

Lithuanian Fact 1

Lithuanians were pagan until the fourteenth century. Dope.

Dreaming as Hyperobject

Someone asked whether Aboriginal song lines and so forth constitute a hyperobject. Yes of course and indeed I think I refer to the Dreamtime...

That Dark Ecology Feeling

Every book has a different emotion associated with putting it together. A different phenomenology. Dark Ecology 's one was very very har...

Isn't It Funny How You Shine

Maureen McLane Gets Meshy

With a poem based on an idea of mine in The New Yorker. I only just found this! Here is McLane talking about the concept behind it .

Thom van Dooren Is Also On This

What a great show . Thom is just excellent.

Audra Mitchell on Hyperobjects and Exinction

On Australian radio --really nice! It's a very good argument, and a very intuitive use of the concept. I think I had a conversation that...

That DIS Interview Again

Some people have told me the link wasn't working, so here it is again . I gave it one!

Why Police Officers Can Shoot You with Impunity

...well described here : For answers, one has to look to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in 1989  ruled  “that all claims that law enforcement...

Comments

Hey sorry to those of you who wrote comments recently. I spaced them! Should be published now.

Come on Lithuania!

I know you're looking at me blog. I'll see you soon! My talk in Kaunas is called I BELIVE IN CORAL !!

Queer Green Sex Toys

I've started to write my essay for the talented Whitney Bauman, guest editor of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Cultur...

Hedgehog

You hear the catastrophe coming. From that moment on imprinted directly on the trait, come from the heart, the mortal's desire awakens i...

Slightly Less Violent

Mark Bittman with news of a good ide a. Plant a bit of non-instrumental lifeforms in 10% of agrilogistical space.

Hyperobjects at Transmediale

About nine minutes in there is such a nice evocation of them.

"Natural"

Vogue

Sadly and inexplicably, they didn't ask me to do any modeling , hahaha. But Hyperobjects  is better on the runway anyway...

It's the Satanic Children's Big Book of Activities! (PDF)

And it's completely real . And it's being handed out in FL schools because of a law that allows religious groups (guess they were on...

Arca: Trauma

Absolutely brilliant, no? From an OOO point of view, everything is stunted, wounded, broken.

Roadside Kestrel

My mate Cary Wolfe doing this today.

Wisdom of Love

Matthew Cusimano has a very good comment below: Sometimes I think it was put backward, it's not the love of wisdom, it's the wisdom ...

Erotics of Objects

...and that's why the objects are interesting. If you're into the object-orientation, it means you know things can't be totally ...

Eliassonic

That really is a very very good idea for a title Olafur. A really  good idea. I'm gonna do it!

If Philo-sophia Were Just Sophia

...we'd be so sunk! We'd be screwed, actually. There would be no movement. No shimmering. No physicality. There is an irreducible er...

Confusion Is the Dawn of Wisdom

“The Greek word philosophia, which means love of wisdom rather than wisdom itself, incorporates a basic ignorance into its etymology.” Right...

Tantalizing

Spider is black Sky is blue How tantalizing this world Cathy's hair is black Her complexion is white Her attention is like a bowstring

Arca

Is this unbelievably good? Why yes. I had the very great pleasure of meeting this chap recently.

There Is No Away

The nature/culture distinction collapses, once again...look at this chap, he's liberating bags and wrappers like insects. Yet they can...

Biophilia Live Review

...by the chaps at the BFI . Well, a chap I guess. The movie arrives in Houston this coming Saturday. Here is a good paragraph, which is jus...

Global Warming Art

It's hard to imagine how the extended discussion of the dialogue at Northwestern, the day after the papers, could have gone much better!...

The Humanities in an Age of Ecological Catastrophe (MP3)

The seminar yesterday at Northwestern was attended by something between 150 and 200 people. They just kept on pouring in! And the conversati...

João Florêncio

I'm in a Portuguese sort of a mood and I started noticing that my awesome Ph.D. in performance friend João has a lot of things online. L...

Slightly Desynchronized

Olafur Eliasson just sent me an image from this very suggestive work A Slightly Desynchronised But Otherwise Perfect Pair . A fraction mirro...

Northwestern

I'm here in Evanston and I think the dialogue thing that I'm part of will be at Guild Lounge in Scott Hall, 601 University Place. To...