ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: The Big Picture with Judy Natal

Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Big Picture with Judy Natal

Judy Natal is living in Biosphere 2 at present (her home page is here). Our Chicago event for Wednesday, April 20, 2011 is shaping up:

The Big Picture: Art, Efficacy, and Climate Change

This panel will examine, with leading artists and scholars, why and how contemporary art has become such a critical hub that activates, educates, and elucidates the complex issues of climate change.

Panelists:
William Fox, Director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, and author of eleven nonfiction books, essayist and poet about the relationships among art, cognition, and landscape.

Timothy Morton, Professor of English (Literature and the Environment) at the University of California, Davis, and author of The Ecological Thought, and Ecology Without Nature.

Diana Liverman, Professor of Geography and Development, and Co-Director of the Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, author of many articles, .

Cape Farewell Artist: TBA

Moderator: Judy Natal, Artist, Associate Professor of Photography, Columbia College Chicago.

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Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. They have collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Justin Guariglia, Olafur Eliasson, and Pharrell Williams. Morton co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future’s Past, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. They are the author of the libretto for the opera Time Time Time by Jennifer Walshe. Morton has written All Art Is Ecological (Penguin, 2021), Spacecraft (Bloomsbury, 2021), Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), 8 other books and 250 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. Morton’s work has been translated into 10 languages. In 2014 they gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory.

“Outstanding.”
—Slavoj Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes

“Dark ecology has the potential to be the punk rock or experimental pop of ecological thinking.”
—Kasino A4

“It isn’t [nature] itself that needs trashing — we’re doing a fine job of that already; it’s our way of thinking about it that needs to be structurally realigned ... it's an important book that, in a scant 205 pages of main text ... frames a debate that no doubt will be carried on for years to come.”
—Vince Carducci, Pop Matters

“He practices what he theorizes: nothing is wasted in his argumentation.”
—Emmanouil Aretoulakis, Synthesis

“Picking up where his most obvious predecessors, Gregory Bateson and Felix Guattari, left off, Morton understands mental ecology as the ground zero of ecological thinking, as that which must be redressed before anything else and above all. Morton goes beyond both his forebears, however, in repairing the rift between science and the humanities, which the Enlightenment opened up and against which Romanticism reacted. Perhaps most pleasantly surprising, given its erudition, is that in its stylistic elegance The Ecological Thought is as satisfying to read as it is necessary to ponder.”
—Vince Carducci

ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE

Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Big Picture with Judy Natal

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