Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Posts Tagged ‘commons’

Koinocene (or Cœnocene)?

Posted in Anthropocene, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 7, 2018 | 2 Comments »

Peircian thinker Gary Fuhrman has posted an interesting piece on the naming of the Anthropocene, entitled Holocenoscopy. Noting that the word Holocene means nothing more than “entirely recent,” as opposed to the Pleistocene, which means “most recent,” so there’s really nowhere left to go with naming geological periods after their recentness, Fuhrman suggests we look to another […]

Read Full Post »

Belief in expired wor(l)ds, & in wor(l)ds to come…

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, tagged , , , , on March 14, 2011 | 12 Comments »

It riles me up when intelligent people whose work I respect a lot say ill-considered, if not outright indefensible, things. Jodi Dean’s post arguing that communism “worked” strikes me as such a thing. I’ve provided a lengthy counter-argument on her blog, the gist of which is that the political projects that were actually carried out […]

Read Full Post »

Ostrom’s Nobel, the commons, & blog flow

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , on October 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Several days of silence calls for at least a whimper of sound here… I’ve been on the road (Washington, DC, Boston, and tomorrow Montreal) and writing for crisp deadlines in amidst the travel. And I’m still uncertain as to whether it’s better to post little snippets just to keep the flow coming to your blog […]

Read Full Post »

Skip to toolbar