Over the weekend of the 11th and 12th of June I was at BarnCamp, a fun filled weekend of tech activist related tomfoolery organised by the Hacktionlab network. On the Sunday I gave a talk about the Social and Ecological costs of Technology, which was recorded by the Catalyst radio collective, who launched a 24 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ecology’
Re-Rooting Digital Culture – Media Art Ecologies
Posted in media activism, media ecology, tagged art, climate change, digital culture, ecology, furthefields.org, media on May 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »
On Friday I was in London for an unconference hosted by Furtherfields.org at the University of Westminster, London which approached the subject of re-rooting digital culture from an ecological perspective. Here’s the brief for the event: Over the last decade the awareness of anthropogenic climate change has emerged in parallel with global digital communication networks. [...]
Media Ecologies Prezi and Bibliography
Posted in media ecology, tagged ecology, ecophilosophy, media, media ecologies, technological determinism on March 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I gave a guest lecture for to MA students at the University of Western England on Media Ecologies… Here’s a copy of the Prezi that went along with the lecture, and a selected bibliography for some key readings associated with the field. I’ll try and find some time to write my notes up into [...]
Fate of the World Beta
Posted in climate change, media, politics, tagged climate change, ecology, environment, fate of the world, game, video game on November 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
While being ill over the last week or so, I’ve spent some time playing the beta version of Fate of the World, a forthcoming PC game based around climate change which has generated quite a lot of interest in the mainstream media ( see here and here) The game essentially puts you in command of [...]
NOAA: State of the Climate Report
Posted in climate change, tagged climate, climate change, ecology, environment, NOAA on August 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has recently released a report entitles State of the Climate 2009, which is downloadable in its entirety as a pdf from here, with a web page summarising the report available online here. The findings of this report, which involved over 300 scientists from 48 countries around the world [...]
Complexity and Social Movements: Multitudes at the edge of Chaos – Graeme Chesters and Ian Welsh
Posted in activism, book review, cultural criticism, environmentalism, media activism, tagged Chesters, complexity, ecology, globalization, media, politics, protest, Welsh, WTO on November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This book, published by Routledge in 2006, is a recent attempt at a sociological analysis of the alternative globalization movement (AGM) using a theoretical framework based on an almagamation of the works of Deleuze and Guattari, Hardt and Negri and Gregory Bateson, with complexity theory via D&G deployed to provide qualitative analysis of events such [...]
The Three Ecologies – Felix Guattari
Posted in activism, book review, climate change, cultural criticism, Ecophilosophy, environmentalism, media activism, tagged activism, book review, climate change, ecology, guattari, philosophy on October 7, 2008 | 19 Comments »
The Three Ecologies is one of the final works published by Felix Guattari (1930-1992), a French philosopher, political militant and institutional psychoanalyst. While Guattari is perhaps best known for his co-authored projects with Gilles Deleuze; Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus and What is Philosophy; The Three Ecologies provides an excellent insight into Guattari’s stance on politics, [...]
Capitalism, Consumption, and Sustainability
Posted in activism, climate change, cultural criticism, Ecophilosophy, tagged capitalism, consumption, ecology, resource depletion, sustainability on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We are constantly being reminded by environmentalists that we only have one planet on which to live, a single set of resources which are being depleted at an ever increasing rate… But our biosphere is not a static pool of resources. The world is constantly changing. All around us life is growing, evolving, renewing itself, [...]
Bateson – Steps to An Ecology of Mind
Posted in Ecophilosophy, tagged bateson, ecology, philosophy on May 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Today the purposes of consciousness are implemented by more and more effective machinery, transportation systems, airplanes, weaponry, medicine, pesticides and so forth. Conscious purpose is now empowered to upset the balances of the body, of society, and of the biological world around us. A pathology – a loss of balance – is threatened. On the [...]
