I just got back from a workshop on "Multispecies Intellectual History" at the University of Oxford. Philosophy, history, physics, botany, anthropology, art, and other fields were represented in the discussions, and a publication on this is to be expected. Read more here: cas.au.dk/en/umih #envhum

Who's going to SOLCHA this year? #envhist #envhum #historiaambiental

The next Radical Environmental Humanities lecture will be in Spanish. Join us today at 4pm CET to listen to Raul Zibechi on "La descomposición de las sociedades latinoamericanas." You can also watch it later, but join to be able to ask questions! Link: www.youtube.com/@RadicalEnvi... #EnvHum

Finally figured out how easy it is to turn off the annoying "AI Assistant" when reading PDFs in Adobe Acrobat in the browser: the three dots → preferences → uncheck "Enable generate AI feature in Acrobat". AI can be useful, but unwanted assistance is not... Analyzing on my own is how I learn.

Today at 6pm CET! Can be watched later, but join and you'll be able to ask questions. www.youtube.com/@RadicalEnvi...
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Not my favorite philosopher, but Guattari was spot on when he in 1989 wrote that about Trump as an example of the logic endorsed by the hegemonic system. Politics is now becoming “only business,” and a ruthless business man is now the US President. From The Three Ecologies.

On 21 January, 6pm CET, the collective behind 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦: 𝘈 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 will host this online lecture with Malcom Ferdinand. Save the link: www.youtube.com/@RadicalEnvi...

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Venus in Valencia

A slow-moving slime mold (𝘔𝘺𝘹𝘰𝘮𝘺𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘢) from last week's environmental photography workshop with Alison Pouliot and the @carsoncenter.bsky.social

Join our ESEH panel: "Minding Nature: The Role of Cognition in Environmental History." If you could present on something that would fit the below abstract, send me an abstract by 12 Nov. We will get back to you on the 13th.

The conference takes place in Uppsala, 18-22 August. #Envhist #envhum

In Rachel Carson and some of her contemporaries, I find something that I find more rare today: an alignment between a humanist view of the good life and a care for biodiversity and the environment. Humans and humanism aren't the problem; regimentation, consumerism, megatechnics, and alienation are.

Makes sense, but I wonder about the "no longer." Another answer to the Fermi paradox is that we tend to assume the logic of modernity, imperialism & globalization to be universal for life in the universe, when it's not even universal for humans on earth. It's manifest destiny in a new garb.

Join this Speak4Nature event tomorrow! Send me a DM if you want to join online.

And here's just a bonus: a Swedish 1961 ad for the single-use beer cans from the Pripps brewery. They suggest that you should bring it on your sail boat and end with "a little extra tip; make a whole at the bottom of the empty can and will sink faster."

The intensification of human activity that began in the mid-20th century (the "Great Acceleration") warrants a look back at critical books of the time, like Arendt's 1958 prescient book on human activity that regards both dehumanization and eco-destruction as results of world alienation. #envhum

During last week's World Congress of Environmental History, I co-organized and presented in a triple panel on "The Environment Around Us: Relational Approaches as Common Ground" together with colleagues at the Konrad Lorenz Institute, the Rachel Carson Center, and other institutions. It was a hit!

Here's my office in Florianópolis, Brazil, where I'll be working for the next two months. I got lucky and was seconded to the Federal University of Santa Catarina, and now I'm working at the law faculty.

After much hard work, I have now defended my dissertation!

If you are in Munich on 15 November, consider attending my defense. It will take place at the Rachel Carson Center at 12:00.