Janet Laurence, Alchemist

Distilling.  Cloud Series.

 (Image 1 of 4.)

For more information including images and audio see Environmetnal Critque here.

E.O. Wilson, Climate Change, and OOO (Part One)

By Randall Honold via Environmental Critique.

See the start of an interesting converstaion here.

Part Two here.

Butterfly Space: The Intimacy of Nature and Culture

See my short, new Environmental Critique post here.

Henri Mattise.  Le Bonheur De Vivre

Image Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bonheur_Matisse.jpg

Tree self reports . . .

I'm a tree

and this is my feed.

See here.

Notes on a 9-Point Ecosystems Heuristic

9-Point Ecosystems Heuristic

--based on tagmemic invention and OOO inspired

Example: Organism †(across)	Organism/Particle (the example within each rubric as a discrete rubric)	Organism/Wave (the example within each rubric as a a wave)	Organism/Field (the example within each rubric as a a field)
Rubric: tagmemic invention (down)
Particle --the thing as a discrete entity—not in relationship with anything else	1. Organism as a particle—not in either spatial or temporal relationships Only endo-relations?	4.  Organism as the sum of its internal processes—temporal endo-relations—linear/temporal processes, sum of  moments within the organism (i.e. affective states).	7. Organism as the sum of its parts, its internal spatial relationships —spatial endo-relations --internal systems
Wave --the thing as a process—change over time (time linear but only conceptually—not a spatial relationship.)	2. Organism as a vital process—change over time—in relationship to itself as a conceptual whole.  (Iterated wholes.) Endo/exo?	5.  Organism in a process within a process.  Rate of change over time.  For example, rate of growth over time. Endo/exo?	8. Organism in a process of change within a stable spatial/environmental context.  Prompt to change environment.  (Why is the organism changing?)   Endo/exo?
Field --the thing within a larger context (spatial and more or less synchronous)	3. Organism within a field as a set of spatial relationships—in its environment. Only exo-relations.	6. Organism within an environment that changes over time—environmental stress. (Prompt to adapt, but not the process of adaptation.) exo-relations	9. Organism within a spatial context, within a spatial context—organism within an environment within an environment ( . . . within an ecosystem within the biosphere). Exo/exo-relations.

Wild Creatures . . .



Identity. Immanence, and Inanimate Events

Christine Skolnik, Anthony Paul Smith, Guy Zimmerman

SLSA Nonhuman, 2012.  Excerpts and Audio here.

Sycamore leaves

stitched together with stalks

hung from a tree

Glasgow, Lanarkshire

1 November 1986

Image Source: http://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/image/?tid=1986_101

More soon via my friend and colleague Jospeh Dreiss (SLSA 2012)