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Transitory Places (2012), Part 4
Here is the conclusion of my old paper, which derives from my reflection on the Karori Sanctuary some lessons on scale, change, and the need for an experimental approach to ethics. Ethics in Transitory Places What does it imply for the conservation project at Karori if the place in which it unfolds is, in some… Continue reading
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Transitory Places (2012), Part 3
The landscape of New Zealand is especially dynamic. The Karori Sanctuary in Wellington is caught in a kind of biogeographic storm pulling it on into the future even as its managers attempt to pull it back into the past. The possibility of an abrupt, radical transition in the landscape, even at a very short time-scale,… Continue reading
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Transitory Places (2012), Part 2
In this section, I develop on the idea that project may serve as a basic element of ethical inquiry, an idea in which I now have renewed interest. Following from my 2010 book, The Ethics of Metropolitan Growth, I connect project with place, with the twist that places tend not to remain as they have… Continue reading
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Transitory Places (2012), Part 1
To help trace the path from my earlier work in environmental philosophy to the present moment, I’m going to rummage around in the archive a bit to find and offer up serialized versions of some older papers and notes. First up is the final typescript of a paper inspired by moment from my time in… Continue reading
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Home/Not Home
I never feel more like an “internal exile” than when I have traveled from my current residence near Atlanta to the place where I grew up, just upstream from Toledo, Ohio, along the Maumee River. I took the long fall-break weekend to drive up I-75 to visit my mom, my siblings, and a few of… Continue reading
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Word and Flesh
In 1989, Wendell Berry delivered a commencement address at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. With the aim of saying “something useful about the problems and opportunities that lie ahead” of the graduates, he started with a quotation from As You Like It, when Orlando says, “I can no longer live by… Continue reading