Green Heresies - Professor Thomas Lamarre
The meaning of life and other inconveniences - Philosophy in everyday life - Green Heresies
Friday 13 February 2026
6:00 pm 8:00 pm
Manning Clak House - 11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest, ACT
Nicole Anderson engages in conversation with Professor Thomas Lamarre who is a prominent scholar of film and media studies best known for his influential work on Japanese animation, technology, and visual culture. A longtime professor at McGill University, he has shaped how anime and related media are analyzed by blending close formal reading with philosophy, political theory, and science and technology studies. His books—such as The Anime Machine, The Shadow of the Machine, and The Anime Ecology—explore how moving images, technical apparatuses, and modes of perception interact to produce distinctive aesthetics and politics, arguing that anime is not just a genre but a complex media ecology. Through his interdisciplinary approach and meticulous attention to how images are made and experienced, Lamarre has become a central figure in global anime and media theory.
Invasive species are always subject to heated debate, and recent research in the sciences and humanities has not settled matters in the least. On the contrary, as we learn more about invasive species, the ethical and political questions grow increasingly complicated. As poet and biologist David George Haskell slyly put it, “the world may not be as green as it seems.” Looking specifically at the domain of plant studies and field of ecology, I propose not only to delineate some of the new questions arising around invasive plant species but also to explore how they imply broader transformations in our understanding of plants, humans, and ecological interactions.
About The Meaning of Life and Other Inconveniences - Philosophy in every day life.** In conversations with Professor Nicole Anderson.**
Nicole Anderson engages in conversation with a number of leading international and national philosophical thinkers and intellectuals on the meaning of life. Covering topics as diverse as technology, music, religion, animals, psychology, life and death, the series explores fundamental questions about what it means to be alive, and what gives us meaning.
The series will kicked off in October 2025 with an inaugural discussion with Professor David Wills around questions of what constitutes the meanings of life and death. This was followed by a conversation with Mark Swivel in November 2025 on the rules that might provide foundations to build meaning and purpose,
Professor Nicole Anderson - series host
Nicole Anderson is Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney; affiliate (adjunct) faculty at Arizona State University; and Honorary Professor at the University of Canberra. She has published over 50 articles and books on animals, ethics, culture, democracy, and philosophy, all of which have been informed by her scholarship on French Philosopher Jacques Derrida. In regards to the latter she has published Derrida: Ethics Under Erasure, and is currently writing a second book on Derrida and animals (forthcoming 2026). She is the founding editor of the Derrida Today Journal (based on the work of Jacques Derrida), published by Edinburgh University Press, and which has been running since 2007. Aligned with the journal is the Derrida Today International Conferences (Home ), of which Nicole is the founding Executive Director. The conferences have been held in Britain, UK, USA, Europe and Australia, and provides a forum for academics from around the world to discuss and apply the thinking of Derrida to contemporary world events and issues.
Nicole has also co-produced with Julian Knowles a podcast series with PBS called the ‘Futures of Democracy’ (A podcast series ), which has been ranked number 5 out of 10 for 3 years in a row 2022 – 2025 for best Political Podcasts in Arizona, USA by Feedspot: 10 Best Arizona Political Podcasts You Must Follow in 2025. She has won a prestigious Australian Research Council Linkage Grant with John Potts, and as part of the grant co-curated a six month exhibition at the NSW Art Gallery, Sydney, on the philanthropist John Kaldor’s extensive art collection.
The Meaning of Life and Other Inconveniences - Philosophy in every day life.** In conversations with Professor Nicole Anderson.**
Nicole Anderson engages in conversation with a number of leading international and national philosophical thinkers and intellectuals on the meaning of life. Covering topics as diverse as technology, music, religion, animals, psychology, life and death, the series explores fundamental questions about what it means to be alive, and what gives us meaning.
The series will kicked off in October 2025 with an inaugural discussion with Professor David Wills around questions of what constitutes the meanings of life and death. This was followed by a conversation with Mark Swivel in November 2025 on the rules that might provide foundations to build meaning and purpose,
Light Refreshments will be provided.
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Friday 13 February 2026 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (UTC+11)
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Manning Clark House
11 Tasmania Circle , Forrest ACT 2903
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