Rod Giblett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rod Giblett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rod |
| FAMILY NAME | Giblett |
| SIGNATURE | GIBLETT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edith Cowan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7155-6116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Waking to Nature with Thoreau and Benjamin: Or, Psychopolitical Ecology
What do two white men born in the century before last have to say that could possibly be of any use or value in the current conjuncture of climate collapse, the end of the age of fossil fuels and much life on earth, and the recent re-rise of reactionary forces against progressive politics? Turns out, a lot, especially for waking to nature, place, life, social injustice, environmental destruction, industrial capitalism and its technologies. Henry …
Modern Melbourne: City and Site of Nature and Culture
Environmental Humanities and Theologies: Ecoculture, Literature and the Bible
Many ways of thinking about and living with ‘the environment’ have their roots in the Bible and the Christian cultural tradition. Environmental Humanities and Theologies shows that some of these ways are problematic. It also provides alternative ways that value both materiality and spirituality. Beginning with an environmentally friendly reading of the biblical story of creation, Environmental Humanities and Theologies goes on to discuss in succe…
Forest Family: Australian Culture, Art, and Trees
Forest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and cultural histories of Southwest eucalypt forests, spanning pre-settlement, colonial, and contemporary periods. The contributors critique a range of content including historical documents, music, novels, paintings, performances, photography, poetry, and sculp…
Cities and Wetlands: The Return of the Repressed in Nature and Culture
From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world’s great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and a…
With nature: Nature philosophy as poetics through Schelling, Heidegger, Benjamin and Nancy
With nature: nature philosophy as poetics through Schelling, Heidegger, Benjamin and Nancy
Nature Is Ordinary Too: Raymond Williams as the Founder of Ecocultural Studies
In a recent article in Cultural Studies, Jennifer Daryl Slack called for the jettisoning of ecocultural studies as an add-on to Cultural Studies and the revitalizing of Cultural Studies with the eco as integral to it. One way I propose of doing so in this article is to revalue and re-establish the beginnings of Cultural Studies, and of ecocultural studies, in the work of Raymond Williams in which both were integral to the other. I call Williams b…
Wilderness to wasteland in the photography of the American west
American landscape and wilderness photography has lived under the aegis of the aesthetic, and in particular under the sign of the sublime and the picturesque, for some time. Ansel Adams' photographs of towering mountains and canyons are the obvious major expressions and exemplars of the sublime in photography. The sublime involves the formlessness of uplifting spectacles and produces feelings of awe and terror. By contrast, Carleton Watkins's pho…
Terrifying prospects and resources of hope: Minescapes, timescapes and the aesthetics of the future
I begin in hope, and end in hope. In the middle I consider the way we look at the future as a timescape that stretches before us, at how we regard the future in some ways like a landscape with various aesthetic possibilities as either, to cut a long story short and simplifying to the extreme, a pleasing prospect (with the double spatial and temporal meaning of ‘prospect’) or a terrifying prospect with also the same double meaning. Along the way, …
Sublime Communication Technologies
This lively new study is a critical cultural history of communication technologies, from railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet, in which Rod Giblett argues that these technologies play a pivotal role in the cultural history of modernity and its project of the sublime
The Body of Nature and Culture
This book explores the relationship of human bodies with natural and cultural environments, arguing that these categories are linked and intertwined. It argues for an environmentally sustainable and h
Environmental Sustainability
Shooting the Sunburnt Country, the Land of Sweeping Plains, the Rugged Mountain Ranges: Australian Landscape and Wilderness Photography
This article is an exploration of the aesthetics of landscape photography. The author argues for a shift away from the aesthetics of landscape photography of the sublime and picturesque, which is very much part of the American tradition, toward what could be called a conservation counteraesthetic of photography for environmental sustainability. He suggests that this can evoke the formation of new Australian identity, with its focus on communities…
Alligators, Crocodiles and the Monstrous Uncanny
that hideous monster, the crocodile. (J. A. Hunter, a white hunter, author of White Hunter (cited by Guggisberg, 1972 Guggisberg, C. 1972. Crocodiles: Their Natural History, Folklore and Conservation, Victoria: Wren, Mount Eliza. [Google Scholar], p. 171))
Space Power and Information Superiority: A New Medium for Cultural Policy
Space is again a hot topic, with the resurrection of Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative or 'Star Wars' missile shield, albeit under a new name. Integral to this drive and vital to its success are the deployment and use of communication technologies, and the control of flows of information. Both of these take place in orbital, extraterrestrial space, a new front for warfare and a new medium for the new media of cyberspace and the interne…
Going green
Arran E. Gare Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis, London and New York: Routledge, 1995, 192pp, ISBN 0 415 12479 4 Verena Andermatt Conley Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought, London and New York: Routledge, 1997, 188pp, ISBN 0 415 10306 1 Tom Jagtenberg and David McKie Eco‐Impacts and the Greening of Postmodernity: New Maps for Communication Studies, Cultural Studies and Sociology, London: Sage, 1997, 304pp, ISBN 0 8…
Is the public sphere to the ecosphere as culture is to nature? (as male is to female?)
(1997). Is the public sphere to the ecosphere as culture is to nature? (as male is to female?) Continuum: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 74-84
Writing sexuality, reading pleasure
Nature Is Ordinary Too: Raymond Williams as the Founder of Ecocultural Studies
In a recent article in Cultural Studies, Jennifer Daryl Slack called for the jettisoning of ecocultural studies as an add-on to Cultural Studies and the revitalizing of Cultural Studies with the eco as integral to it. One way I propose of doing so in this article is to revalue and re-establish the beginnings of Cultural Studies, and of ecocultural studies, in the work of Raymond Williams in which both were integral to the other. I call Williams b…
Terrifying prospects and resources of hope: Minescapes, timescapes and the aesthetics of the future
I begin in hope, and end in hope. In the middle I consider the way we look at the future as a timescape that stretches before us, at how we regard the future in some ways like a landscape with various aesthetic possibilities as either, to cut a long story short and simplifying to the extreme, a pleasing prospect (with the double spatial and temporal meaning of ‘prospect’) or a terrifying prospect with also the same double meaning. Along the way, …
Space Power and Information Superiority: A New Medium for Cultural Policy
Space is again a hot topic, with the resurrection of Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative or 'Star Wars' missile shield, albeit under a new name. Integral to this drive and vital to its success are the deployment and use of communication technologies, and the control of flows of information. Both of these take place in orbital, extraterrestrial space, a new front for warfare and a new medium for the new media of cyberspace and the interne…
Forest Family: Australian Culture, Art, and Trees
Forest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and cultural histories of Southwest eucalypt forests, spanning pre-settlement, colonial, and contemporary periods. The contributors critique a range of content including historical documents, music, novels, paintings, performances, photography, poetry, and sculp…
Cities and Wetlands: The Return of the Repressed in Nature and Culture
From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world’s great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and a…
Wilderness to wasteland in the photography of the American west
American landscape and wilderness photography has lived under the aegis of the aesthetic, and in particular under the sign of the sublime and the picturesque, for some time. Ansel Adams' photographs of towering mountains and canyons are the obvious major expressions and exemplars of the sublime in photography. The sublime involves the formlessness of uplifting spectacles and produces feelings of awe and terror. By contrast, Carleton Watkins's pho…
Environmental Sustainability
Alligators, Crocodiles and the Monstrous Uncanny
that hideous monster, the crocodile. (J. A. Hunter, a white hunter, author of White Hunter (cited by Guggisberg, 1972 Guggisberg, C. 1972. Crocodiles: Their Natural History, Folklore and Conservation, Victoria: Wren, Mount Eliza. [Google Scholar], p. 171))
Going green
Arran E. Gare Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis, London and New York: Routledge, 1995, 192pp, ISBN 0 415 12479 4 Verena Andermatt Conley Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought, London and New York: Routledge, 1997, 188pp, ISBN 0 415 10306 1 Tom Jagtenberg and David McKie Eco‐Impacts and the Greening of Postmodernity: New Maps for Communication Studies, Cultural Studies and Sociology, London: Sage, 1997, 304pp, ISBN 0 8…
Writing sexuality, reading pleasure
Going green
Arran E. Gare Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis, London and New York: Routledge, 1995, 192pp, ISBN 0 415 12479 4 Verena Andermatt Conley Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought, London and New York: Routledge, 1997, 188pp, ISBN 0 415 10306 1 Tom Jagtenberg and David McKie Eco‐Impacts and the Greening of Postmodernity: New Maps for Communication Studies, Cultural Studies and Sociology, London: Sage, 1997, 304pp, ISBN 0 8…
Is the public sphere to the ecosphere as culture is to nature? (as male is to female?)
(1997). Is the public sphere to the ecosphere as culture is to nature? (as male is to female?) Continuum: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 74-84
Space Power and Information Superiority: A New Medium for Cultural Policy
Space is again a hot topic, with the resurrection of Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative or 'Star Wars' missile shield, albeit under a new name. Integral to this drive and vital to its success are the deployment and use of communication technologies, and the control of flows of information. Both of these take place in orbital, extraterrestrial space, a new front for warfare and a new medium for the new media of cyberspace and the interne…
Alligators, Crocodiles and the Monstrous Uncanny
that hideous monster, the crocodile. (J. A. Hunter, a white hunter, author of White Hunter (cited by Guggisberg, 1972 Guggisberg, C. 1972. Crocodiles: Their Natural History, Folklore and Conservation, Victoria: Wren, Mount Eliza. [Google Scholar], p. 171))
Shooting the Sunburnt Country, the Land of Sweeping Plains, the Rugged Mountain Ranges: Australian Landscape and Wilderness Photography
This article is an exploration of the aesthetics of landscape photography. The author argues for a shift away from the aesthetics of landscape photography of the sublime and picturesque, which is very much part of the American tradition, toward what could be called a conservation counteraesthetic of photography for environmental sustainability. He suggests that this can evoke the formation of new Australian identity, with its focus on communities…
Sublime Communication Technologies
This lively new study is a critical cultural history of communication technologies, from railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet, in which Rod Giblett argues that these technologies play a pivotal role in the cultural history of modernity and its project of the sublime
The Body of Nature and Culture
This book explores the relationship of human bodies with natural and cultural environments, arguing that these categories are linked and intertwined. It argues for an environmentally sustainable and h
Environmental Sustainability
Wilderness to wasteland in the photography of the American west
American landscape and wilderness photography has lived under the aegis of the aesthetic, and in particular under the sign of the sublime and the picturesque, for some time. Ansel Adams' photographs of towering mountains and canyons are the obvious major expressions and exemplars of the sublime in photography. The sublime involves the formlessness of uplifting spectacles and produces feelings of awe and terror. By contrast, Carleton Watkins's pho…
Terrifying prospects and resources of hope: Minescapes, timescapes and the aesthetics of the future
I begin in hope, and end in hope. In the middle I consider the way we look at the future as a timescape that stretches before us, at how we regard the future in some ways like a landscape with various aesthetic possibilities as either, to cut a long story short and simplifying to the extreme, a pleasing prospect (with the double spatial and temporal meaning of ‘prospect’) or a terrifying prospect with also the same double meaning. Along the way, …
Nature Is Ordinary Too: Raymond Williams as the Founder of Ecocultural Studies
In a recent article in Cultural Studies, Jennifer Daryl Slack called for the jettisoning of ecocultural studies as an add-on to Cultural Studies and the revitalizing of Cultural Studies with the eco as integral to it. One way I propose of doing so in this article is to revalue and re-establish the beginnings of Cultural Studies, and of ecocultural studies, in the work of Raymond Williams in which both were integral to the other. I call Williams b…
With nature: Nature philosophy as poetics through Schelling, Heidegger, Benjamin and Nancy
With nature: nature philosophy as poetics through Schelling, Heidegger, Benjamin and Nancy
Cities and Wetlands: The Return of the Repressed in Nature and Culture
From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world’s great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and a…
Environmental Humanities and Theologies: Ecoculture, Literature and the Bible
Many ways of thinking about and living with ‘the environment’ have their roots in the Bible and the Christian cultural tradition. Environmental Humanities and Theologies shows that some of these ways are problematic. It also provides alternative ways that value both materiality and spirituality. Beginning with an environmentally friendly reading of the biblical story of creation, Environmental Humanities and Theologies goes on to discuss in succe…
Forest Family: Australian Culture, Art, and Trees
Forest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and cultural histories of Southwest eucalypt forests, spanning pre-settlement, colonial, and contemporary periods. The contributors critique a range of content including historical documents, music, novels, paintings, performances, photography, poetry, and sculp…
Modern Melbourne: City and Site of Nature and Culture
Waking to Nature with Thoreau and Benjamin: Or, Psychopolitical Ecology
What do two white men born in the century before last have to say that could possibly be of any use or value in the current conjuncture of climate collapse, the end of the age of fossil fuels and much life on earth, and the recent re-rise of reactionary forces against progressive politics? Turns out, a lot, especially for waking to nature, place, life, social injustice, environmental destruction, industrial capitalism and its technologies. Henry …
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