...by Phuture, aka DJ Pierre, with whom I was talking at IMS last week on Ibiza.
ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE
beauty solidarity symbiosis
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Friday, April 26, 2024
I Spoke with Phuture about the Future in Ibiza
Yes. One of my heroes. The reason I write so much of what I write. DJ Pierre, who turned an envelope filter on the Roland TR-303 baseline and changed music. Who made scary dance music, an innovation in itself: acid house.
I was on a panel with him at IMS Ibiza this week, having given the keynote to set the tone for the whole conference of about 1000 DJs, producers and musicians. Other panelists included DJ Madame Gandhi, who was brilliant, and Georgia Taglietti, who seemed to have read everything I had ever done, Maria May and Ruth Daniel, who both spoke plangently on the ethical and political dimensions of techno.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Paradise (Hell lecture)
500 people, Syracuse University Art Museum. Thank you thank you to Edward Morris and Susannah Sayler!
Monday, April 22, 2024
Earth Day Rant from Hell
I made MAGA. I did. Well not just me.
1. I can only take responsibility myself for what I see in the world.
2. People like me stopped talking about God to our students.
3. Ecological language is Old Testament revenge speak and Joe Truck Driver has something BETTER: Jesus loves him anyway.
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5. Seriously I never got the memo about not speaking about God from theory class, at which I am a bona fide alpha plus student. A never given grade at Oxford which I got for my theory exam. The top is alpha minus. Believe me I can destroy you using Hegelian Marxism. But I shan't. Because it sucks.
6. Until people like me talk forgiveness and mercy and Jesus we have ceded a HUGE area to the ultra right.
7. This is the main reason I wrote Hell. It's coming.
8. All the scientistic yelling has done jack lshit.
9. Scholars created the internet as the Wild West forgetting about the legacy of slavery and what would happen if there was a new Wild West.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Hell Launch in Houston: What Happened
I can do no better than send you extracts from an email I sent to my publisher and others:
Club night was amazing. Stefano [Cagol] came FROM VENICE (he had invited me to give the first ever Hell lecture, in the Dolomites on Zoom, last year). Ed came from Syracuse (yes, that Ed[ward Morris], from that lecture! [I gave one at Syracuse in February]). Paul [Miller aka DJ Spooky] was so great not only behind the decks but as an amazing host.
We sold so many copies of Being Ecological! Many many! It was lovely to sign them. There was a huge line.
Lecture was also amazing. I’ve done dialogues many times and that was the BEST. Paul was very enthused about the book and he knows everyone. He wants to launch it in NYC. He got Cornel and Slavoj together at the New School last week. He wants to hook up with Columbia etc etc. If anyone can make it work in NYC it’s Spooky.
So much lovely conversation. I have a thing about “I have a dream” [MLK] that is much more than even in the book now, I’m so happy with it. And I felt at home with the U of H Downtown students, many continuing ed, genuine, emotionally connected people, great students of all ages. There is now other stuff that isn’t in the book. I researched the original Greek in “But deliver us from evil”—it’s really really really powerful and nothing like what I was taught, ever.
I was TERRIFIED. Not since my first big keynote in 2005 have I been terrified like that, with cotton mouth. I talked about it and made people laugh. I read Thomas Merton’s “Moral Theology of the Devil” at the start. I did a really heavy powerpoint like I haven’t done since Hyperobjects. Ed [Morris], an artist who had persuaded me strongly to do a presentation, was impressed.
I handed out the 100 flyers for the book promotion at Brazos Bookstore!
It was such an honor and a privilege to launch the book this way.
The Sound Resounds Underground
Thanks to Andrew Melchior for sending me this incredibly interesting article about recordings of life in the soil.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Register free for this Zoom lecture on Blake and ecology and religion: 11:30 LA 1:30 today CST, 2:30 EST, 7:30 London, 8:30 Europe
It's gonna be so great to talk to the Blake Society!
Order Hell from My Favorite Store and Get a Signed Bookplate Designed by Me!
Brazos Books is one of those local treasures that you just want to live in, hidden in a corner. It's like a bakery of books, that freshly baked book smell. They do readings and all kinds of events. And right now they're running a promotion. If you order the new book from them, they'll include a bookplate I've designed (based on the art of William Blake, with a lovely quotation that Blake genius Andy Wilson found), and more, signed by me.
Here We Go
My fourth Hell lecture, the first specifically about Blake, the first ever for the Blake Society. I'm nervous!
There's still time to register. It's at 1:30pm my time, 7:30pm UK time.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Register Free Here for the Hell Club Night in Houston!
Ten days from now, two world class DJs will spin Hell into existence (as it were LOL) along with celestial cocktails and more, at the acclaimed Avantgarden club in Houston. You can register free here.
Saturday, March 23, 2024
New Website: Christian Ecology
I decided to start a Facebook page dedicated to the subtitle of Hell. It's going to be less intense than the YouTube page, more contemplative and softer. Take a look if you wish and I would be honored if you followed it.
Thursday, March 14, 2024
I'm Honored to Be a Part of the National Book Awards This Year
What a lovely thing that I was invited to be on the Nonfiction panel.
Monday, March 11, 2024
I Am on TikTok (Heaven Help Me?)
...Heaven indeed, for I am Professor from Hell. I'm posting little things about the book and the launch (4.18, Houston, Avantgarden!)