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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. Thinking With the Planet: a Review of The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century

   Using recent events of planetary significance as a point of departure, Jeanette McVicker reviews The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Amy J. Elias and Christian Moraru. 

   reference: (http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies) 

   Malene Fonnes - 12.09.2017 - 13:57

3. Review of Williams's How to be an Intellectual

   In this review of How to Be an Intellectual: Essays on Criticism, Culture, and the University, Christopher Findeisen analyzes Jeffrey J. Williams’s assessment of higher education in the United States. Linking the decline of funding for universities and colleges, rising student debt, the exploitation of academic labor, and the digital humanities, the review examines the omission of accounts of “the not-so-remarkable everyperson academic, the untenured, the up-and-comers, and the downtrodden.

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

   Malene Fonnes - 12.09.2017 - 15:03

4. The Peripheral Future

   In this introduction to her gathering on Digital and Natural Ecologies, Lisa Swanstrom pulls back from the tendency towards apocalyptic speculation that is commonplace in popular discourse of technology and nature. Instead, Swanstrom offers a more grounded discourse that addresses the impact of the digital on the natural.

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

   Malene Fonnes - 22.09.2017 - 08:39

5. Review of Heather Houser’s Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect

   In this review of Heather Houser’s Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction, Sharalyn Sanders identifies the hopeful potential for environmental justice via contemporary literature. Finding a solidarity implied between intersectional identities and ecocriticism, Sander’s finds in Houser’s call for “scholarly activism” an antidote to the detachment which threatens to thwart environmental awareness.

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

   Malene Fonnes - 22.09.2017 - 08:49

6. Intersectional Ecologies: Matt Kenyon’s "Useful Fictions," an interview

   Lisa Swanstrom interviews Matt Kenyon, founding member of S.W.A.M.P. (Studies of Work Atmosphere and Mass Production, co-founded with Doug Easterly), an Associate Professor of Art in the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan, and a 2015 TED Fellow.

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

   Malene Fonnes - 22.09.2017 - 09:13

7. Nature is What Hurts

   In this review of Timothy Morton’s Hyperobjects, Robert Seguin contemplates the implication of the text’s eponymous subject on art, philosophy, and politics. The “hyperobject,” a hypothetical agglomeration of networked interactions with the potential to produce inescapable shifts in the very conditions of existence, emerges as the key consideration for the being in the present.

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

   Malene Fonnes - 22.09.2017 - 10:25

8. Cave Gave Game: Subterranean Space as Videogame Place

   Jerz and Thomas identify our fascination with natural cave spaces, and then chart that fascination as it descends into digital realms, all in order to illustrate the importance of “the cave” as a metaphor for how we interact with our environment.

   (Source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/cave)

   Malene Fonnes - 22.09.2017 - 10:31

9. Anatomizing the Language of Love: An Interview with Lee Siegel

   Anatomizing the Language of Love: An Interview with Lee Siegel

   Glenn Solvang - 25.09.2017 - 15:19

10. Inside God's Toolbox

    Jon Adams rifles through the instrument cabinet of the man upstairs by way of William J. Jackson’s Heaven’s Fractal Net. Adams finds more problems than solutions in Jackson’s position that fractals are a fundamental and universal structure of life - a position Jackson stakes out by vacillating between scholarly proof and speculative guruism.

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

    Malene Fonnes - 16.10.2017 - 10:17

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