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The sleeve notes to Blood Wedding's A Survey of Locked Modes  will soon be out, with of course the album, which is just terrific. I'm writing a piece on plexiglass chairs for Marina Zurkow's Petroleum Manga project. And Olafur Eliasson (have been a fan for a long time now) has just asked me to write something for a book he is doing. I'm writing something on Irigaray and ecology for The Journal for the British Society for Phenomenology . It is called “This Biosphere Which Is Not One.” I'm writing something on the elements and the elemental for Jeffrey Cohen. I'm writing an essay on dark ecology for Tom Bristow (hi Tom!). I'm writing on “Ecology” for Claire Colebrook, and another similar title for Imre Szeman and Patricia Yaeger. I'm writing something that encapsulates The Ecological Thought  for EarthLines  journal. I'm revising something on climate change (I prefer "global warming") for diacritics . I'm revising something on Buddhism a...

Here is the link to my essay .  The essay was hypercorrected as follows: (1) The title was changed. (The subtitle became the title.) (2) p . 20 line 35 (paragraph 2 four lines up): "possible space" should be "possibility space." The hypercorrection sounds too vague.  (3) p. 22, column 1 line 6: "when I try to show you number" (not "when I try to show you a number"). This simply makes me look like a fool. Sorry! I can show you numbers easily: look—2, 3, 4...  In addition to making me look an idiot, these changes communicate to me that the editors (I believe the guest editor helps run this site ) didn't quite trust me. Granted, my essay was a bit of a gadfly in the side of "next nature." But this shouldn't mean I am not trusted to know what I'm writing. When I used to edit a big journal, I always used to query substantial changes, rather than simply make them. And proofs would, as I specified earlier, have fixed these problem...