Art and Technology in Maurice Blanchot Holly Langstaff "Demonstrates Blanchot's ongoing importance for contemporary philosophical debate about technology, the post-human, and ecological thinking" edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-art-and...

New Cambridge Element, Problems of God in Descartes. Read for free for the next 2 weeks at cup.org/48MHDro

Forthcoming on sustainable/ regenerative agriculture: “Fields of Opportunities: New Farmers, Small Farms, and What Comes after Industrial Agriculture” Andrea Rissing www.sup.org/books/anthro...

A little write-up of our recent event on "the wisdom of bees", where I was a speaker, including a short video: lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/news/storyte...

Currently reading: "Creation as Sacrament: Reflections on Ecology and Spirituality" John Chryssavgis

New publication that looks interesting: "Walking Shadow: Love, Loss and Shakespeare" Greg Doran bloomsbury.com/uk/walking-s...

"Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens" David Stuttard www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Doug Wilson has been a major influence on Pete Hegseth. Here is a summary of Wilson's beliefs, all referenced in his own words, including: - Slavery wasn't that bad - AIDS is not a real infectious disease - The physically disabled can't enter into real marriage dougwilsonbelieves.com

A study of the photo-journalism of Sebastião Salgado in relation to global social, cultural and ecological crisis: lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/LSRIResearch... Download this new article for free.

“Timaeus in Paradise: Metaphors and Beauty from Plato to Dante and Beyond” Piero Boitani press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Two Disciples at the Tomb, c.1906 Henry Ossawa Tanner

William-Adolphe Bouguereau The Three Marys at the Tomb, 1876

Giovanni Bellini, The Descent of Christ into Limbo, c.1475 - 1480

Forthcoming important new book: "Russia’s New Imperialism: Capital and Ideology" Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev www.sup.org/books/politi...

Our next "Down to Earth" Dialogue will explore case studies of integral agroecology: 📅 23 April 2026, 14:00-15:30 BST 🔗 iern.org/event/downto...

Repatriating Bruno Latour for the Left logisticsofreligionblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/r... (repost)

"Bergson and Affect: Intensity, Virtuality and the Body" Miguel José Paley edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-bergson...

New publication: "Indirectness: A Plea for Truth in Times of Post-Truth" Ed. Jela Krečič, Jure Simoniti edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-indirec...

Here is my new article on the nature photography of Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado. What can we learn from his beautiful work about the "politics of the visual" that directs us at this time of global ecological crisis? Read here: lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

We have just launched a prize (£5,000) to be awarded for a student-led agroecological project. Must demonstrate measurable, real-world impact on climate resilience and livelihoods, with a credible path to scale. Details here: iern.org/laulanie/

1/ To understand the meaning behind some of Pete Hegseth's recent political-religious rhetoric, we could do worse than turn to a short 1960 essay by political philosopher Eric Voegelin entitled: 'Ersatz Religion: The Gnostic Mass Movements of our Time'.

A final chance to register for our event today, for those working at the intersection of religion, politics and ecology - especially those interested in Indigenous wisdom: "Understanding Integral Agroecology: Theology and Indigenous Wisdom as Practice" iern.org/event/downto...

“God the Created: Pragmatic Constructive Realism in Philosophy and Theology” Benjamin J. Chicka sunypress.edu/Books/G/God-...

“Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man – Letters, 1968–1983” Translated by Bruno Penteado, Sonja Stojanovic Edited by Patricia de Man, Martin McQuillan, Kevin Newmark, Marc Redfield

"Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness" Vladimir Miskovis & Steven Jay Lynn www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

"The Paris Commune: A Global History" Quentin Deluermoz www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... And article here: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

“It must never be forgotten that Western society is not at all modern, but that modernity is a growth within it, in opposition to the classic and Christian tradition”. Eric Voegelin, "New Science of Politics", p.176

A great opportunity to register for this online event - "Understanding Integral Agroecology: Theology and Indigenous Wisdom as Practice" iern.org/event/downto...

Currently reading:

RIP Jürgen Habermas

"The Political Theology of Hannah Arendt: Augustine and the Invention of Modernity" Michael Weinman Edinburgh Univ Press, 2025 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-pol...

Here is a great opportunity for a formation course: Christian-Muslim Dialogues on Ecology. - Build collaborative inter-faith relationships - Education for ecological justice - Insights into shared public witnessing and activism In person (in Cambridge, UK) or online.

“First Among Equals: Visions of Equality Before Egalitarianism” Teresa M. Bejan www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

"The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow" by Timothy Mitchell www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Currently reading:

New publication:

"Girard is a hedgehog; Serres is a fox" (Cynthia Haven)

New publication:

Three volumes of Leibniz' writings are about to be published by Oxford University Press. 300+ texts in a new translation. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

forthcoming:

A reminder that our research seminar meets today at 15.00 - we will be discussing the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo and its relevance to ecotheology with the amazing Professor Jan-Olav Henriksen. DM me if you can make it.

Ecologies of Ecstasy: Mysticism, Philosophy, and Vegetal Life Book by Simone Kotva cup.columbia.edu/book/ecologi...

1. It has been fun to watch the new BBC "Lord of the Flies" with my ten-year old son. However, this adaptation does not really manage to convey the dread of the original novel (published in 1954).

Honoured to be speaking with a couple of wonderful guests on the topic of "wisdom from the bees", 26 February at Campion Hall, University of Oxford. This is an in-person event only, but we *may* have a couple of spaces. If this might be of interest to you, do please DM. Thanks

A little article from me on Port Meadow, Oxford in this new book:

Sex, death and parrots: Julian Barnes’s best fiction – ranked! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Cody Staton, “Kant’s Critical Imagination. The Logic of Schematism” (Edinburgh University Press)

I have been binging on twentieth-century novels recently. "Scaffolding", by Lauren Elkin, "The Overstory" (again) by Richard Powers, "Lime Works" by Thomas Bernhard, and just now "White Noise" by Delillo, which I am actually enjoying:

CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA THE INSTRUCTOR GREEK-ENGLISH EDITION Translated by W. L. Alexander luxpatrum.com/clement-of-a...