Stephen Muecke
I am one of the convenors of "Remaking Nature", and have expertise in Indigenous Australia as well as the Environmental Humanities.
Location University of NSW in Sydney
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Stephen Muecke replied to Nathan Burke
Hi Nathan. I think that certain phenomena no doubt exist, but that they exist pointlessly (we could get philosophical or theological here!). When it comes to what we do, as humans, in our labs, etc, is how we make these phenomena matter. I think then they become more real in taht they have more roles to play.
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Stephen Muecke replied to Nathan Burke
I think your analogy has correctly shown that facts are the 'raw material' (if you like) that can be fed into the different methods used in the law, science, or certain branches of the humanities, like history. But the facts don't pre-exist the methods. They lie dormant until the methods activate them. Scientific method could thus uncover all sorts of facts...
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copying a reply I made above: Yes, elsewhere I have divided the scientific community into 3 groups: Public Science (Universities, govt. labs); Citizen Science (people with proper training but fewer institutional links); and Privatized Science (results owned by the commissioning corporations and not publicly available). And yes indeed, a full-length report is...
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Yes, elsewhere I have divided the scientific community into 3 groups: Public Science (Universities, govt. labs); Citizen Science (people with proper training but fewer institutional links); and Privatized Science (results owned by the commissioning corporations and not publicly available). And yes indeed, a full-length report is often cherry-picked for the...
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Yes, we probably always start 'in the middle'. When you find a beginning, it is just another middle! But the attitude is one of discovery from experience. Yes, the Ritter is good EH because it shows how concepts 'neoliberalism', 'denial' are part of an ecology and not applied to it.
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Stephen Muecke replied to Vinathe Sharma
yes, in that respect the MOOC was a big success. You made it your own!
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Excellent
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Thanks, for the feedback,
Hélène -
Thanks, janet
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Wonderful! and good suggestions
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Thanks, Gabriela. Input like yours makes the course much more than what we started with; it evolves!
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thanks, Tracy
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Yes, we will take that on board for the revision, thanks!
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Stephen Muecke replied to Gary Kroll
Latour and a number of others talking recently in Paris, some are in English
http://www.fondationecolo.org/l-anthropocene/video
Latour prefers the name 'New Climate Regime' to Anthropocene -
Stephen Muecke replied to judy sanford
You're right, Judy. many corporations are 'going for broke'. Peabody, a coal company, was desperate as its shares were turning to junk, and hired a PR firm who gave them the slogan. 'Coal is good for humanity'! What can we do? Refuse to go along with such slogans, or the narrative that 'it's only a matter of time before everything is commodified'.
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Stephen Muecke replied to Jane Burd
Thanks for correcting an unfortunate generalisation, Jane. We try to stress that EH does not have an 'anti-science' policy, because we seek research collaborations. Of course, most scientists are morally responsible, especially when they now have to apply for ethics clearance!
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Stephen Muecke made a comment
Thanks for the brilliant comments. You might also like to hear these people talk about the Anthropocene, including Latour: http://www.fondationecolo.org/l-anthropocene/video
