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1. Framed: The Machine in/as the Garden

   Deploying what he has dubbed "the ecological thought," Timothy Morton offers a critical reading of Roderick Coover's online cinemascapes Canyonlands: Edward Abbey and the Defense of Wilderness. In the video's stark modernist form, Morton writes, "the hydroelectric engine of human progress still hums." What's needed now, he suggests, is a "Goth remix."

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/flooded)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 18.02.2011 - 22:07

2. The Universal Viral Machine: Bits, Parasites and the Media Ecology of Network Culture

   In this article, I examine computer worms and viruses as part of the genealogy of network media, of the discourse networks of the contemporary media condition. While popular and professional arguments concerning these miniprograms often see them solely as malicious code, worms and viruses might equally be approached as revealing the very basics of their environment. Such a media-ecological perspective relies on notions of self-referentiality and autopoiesis that problematize the often all-too-hasty depictions of viruses as malicious software, products of vandal juveniles. In other words, worms and viruses are not antithetical to contemporary digital culture, but reveal essential traits of the techno-cultural logic that characterizes the computerized media culture of recent decades.

   Luciana Gattass - 24.10.2012 - 13:18

3. Beyond Representation: Deliberate Reading in a Panarchic World

   Laura Dassow Walls explores how ‘deliberative’ reading practices may allow us to weigh the words we hear against the world we cognize - keeping alive the possibility of reading as a moral act.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/deliberative)

   Malene Fonnes - 15.10.2017 - 16:29

4. Critical Ecologies: Ten Years Later

   Andrew McMurry looks back on ten years of ecocriticism and identifies
   a “new physiocracy,” whose exclusive interest in technology is no better than the exclusive valuation of property that typified physiocrats of the Nineteenth-Century.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/ecocritical)

   Malene Fonnes - 16.10.2017 - 10:31

5. Not Just a River

   Rob Swigart asks why we keep hearing about a technological fix (dubious) and rarely about adaptation as a viable response to global warming.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/denial)

   Malene Fonnes - 16.10.2017 - 10:34

6. Gaia Matters

   Bruce Clarke reviews Stephan Harding’s Animate Earth and James Lovelock’s recent book on Gaia, the mother of all systems.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/looped)

   Malene Fonnes - 16.10.2017 - 10:53

7. Never Coming Home: Positivism, Ecology, and Rootless Cosmopolitanism

   Steven Kellert on being “in favor of universals.”

   This is a hard time to be in favor of universals. If you argue for modern western science, context-free knowledge that is valid everywhere and for everyone, and universal norms and rights, you risk being labelled a liberal or even a Logical Positivist. Radical strains of science and technology studies have shown us that universalizing theories can slip into totalitarian imperatives, or falsely generalize by excluding oppressed groups, or abstract away from the very practices that make meaningful experience possible. Bioregionalism and deep ecology champion the importance of local context in matters both political and epistemological. But what if the Logical Positivists weren’t that bad? What if they were onto something–something worth keeping hold of? And what are the dangers of the contextual and the local?

   tye042 - 18.10.2017 - 14:33

8. Old Orders for New: Ecology, Animal Rights, and The Poverty of Humanism

   Cary Wolfe reviews Luc Ferry’s The New Ecological Order.

   Early on in The New Ecological Order, French philosopher Luc Ferry characterizes the allure and the danger of ecology in the postmodern moment. What separates it from various other issues in the intellectual and political field, he writes, is that it can call itself a true “world vision,” whereas the decline of political utopias, but also the parcelization of knowledge and the growing “jargonization” of individual scientific disciplines, seemed to forever prohibit any plan for the globalization of thought… At a time when ethical guide marks are more than ever floating and undetermined, it allows the unhoped-for promise of rootedness to form, an objective rootedness, certain of a new moral ideal (xx).

   As we shall see, for Ferry – a staunch liberal humanist in the Kantian if not Cartesian tradition – this vision conceals a danger to which contemporary European intellectuals are especially sensitive: not holism, nor even moralism, exactly, but that far more charged and historically freighted thing, totalitarianism.

   tye042 - 18.10.2017 - 14:39

9. The Question of the Animal

   On posthumanism potentially worthy of the name.

   Glenn Solvang - 07.11.2017 - 14:48

10. Further Notes From the Prison-House of Language

    Linda Brigham works through Embodying Technesis by Mark Hansen.

    Glenn Solvang - 09.11.2017 - 13:45

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