Jeff VanderMeer. Photo by Kyle Cassidy

Jeff VanderMeer (US) is the author of the international bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy, translated into 20 languages and optioned for film by Scott Rudin Productions and Paramount Pictures. The Southern Reach Trilogy delves into environmental issues and the dysfunction in human ecologies. VanderMeer writes nonfiction for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Atlantic.com, and more. His nonfiction books include Wonderbook and the forthcoming Space Oddities & Super Freaks: The Secret History of SF and Fantasy. He grew up on the Fiji Islands and currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife, the award-winning anthology editor, Ann VanderMeer.

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Session 8: Speculative Geophilosophy

Saturday 28 February

14:00 - 15:30

Paradiso, Main Hall

The geophilosophy of Ben Woodard directs the attention of philosophy to our globe, because it has ‘contoured every aspect of our material, cultural, and noetic existence’. But what is the Earth? Earth does not care for human thoughts and human civilisation. How can we truly imagine the force of the Earth, the nonhuman forces, things that defy human comprehension?