Ecology, ontology, politics: These three terms are among the most common themes of this blog, but their intersections deserve a more sustained exploration. This is the first of a series of posts that will do that through critical discussion of various readings and concepts. This first post reviews and reflects on some of the questions […]
Posts Tagged ‘Politics’
Ecology-ontology-politics (1): Pickering’s cyborgs
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Science & society, tagged Bateson, cybernetics, ecology, Ontology, epistemology, Pickering, Politics, science studies on April 4, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Cronon, Chomsky/Foucault, & public reason
Posted in Academe, Blog stuff, Media ecology, Process-relational thought, tagged aesthetics, Chomsky, Cronon, Foucault, Politics, Wisconsin on March 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Bill Cronon-Wisconsin Republican party tangle is making me — and many others, judging by the responses I’ve seen on academic listservs — think a little more deeply about how we use our e-mail addresses. Like many, I’m troubled by the possibility that someone could ask to see my e-mail correspondence on any old topic. […]
Observations: politics – media – empathy
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged eventology, Japan tsunami, media ecology, new media, political ecology, Politics on March 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A few observations from the events of the last week or so: (1) Tsunamis happen. When they do, in a globally media-connected world, they bring us all a little closer together. (Not all of us; those who don’t wish to be brought closer may drift further apart. But, to risk getting overly psychoanalytical, those who’ve […]
Revolutionary democracy
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged Badiou, Egypt, media, nonviolence, Obama, Politics, revolution on February 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Here are a few thoughts after watching Frontline’s Revolution in Cairo, which is a very good 24-minute summary of how this particular democratic moment occurred, and after reading Badiou‘s, Hardt & Negri’s, Hallward‘s, Amit Rai‘s, and some other takes on the events. (1) The recipe: Tools + Techniques + Events + Vision = The revolution(s) […]
inside job
Posted in Cinema, Politics, tagged film, oligarchy, plutocracy, Politics, Tea Party on November 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not as good a film as I would have liked — there are too many talking heads, and director/interviewer Charles Ferguson (who remains conveniently invisible throughout) has an annoying tendency to look for “gotcha” moments, when his interview subjects hesitate and stumble in answering his questions, as if these provide the smoking gun that […]
progressive priorities: jobs, movement-building, Jon Stewart
Posted in Politics, tagged Jon Stewart, Obama, Politics on November 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Now that the election results are in, we can all go back to thinking about what U.S. citizens (and non-citizen residents like me) can do about the sad state of affairs in this country. Gara LaMarche’s and Deepak Bhargava’s recent Nation piece The Road Ahead for Progressives: Back to Basics captures the overall picture quite […]
vote
Posted in Politics, tagged Politics on October 27, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Jodi Dean, whose work I respect a lot, won’t vote in the upcoming U.S. elections. The election, she argues, “won’t do anything but secure a false sense of connectedness from those who do vote to the oligarchy that continues to exploit us.” Mark Lance is agreeing with her that voting is the opiate of the […]
letter to a Tea Party sympathizer
Posted in Politics, tagged Politics, Tea Party on October 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
As another political season (leading to the midterm elections) winds down here in the US, people get wound up. Here’s part of something I wrote to a friend who happens to be a Tea Party sympathizer – which surprised me when I found this out, but life is full of surprises, and meeting them mindfully […]
just sitting there
Posted in Spirit matter, tagged Buddhism, Politics on September 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
My favorite line in Patrick Groneman’s account of a group of Buddhist meditators’ attempt to bear witness, by just sitting, amidst the rival armies of 9-11 protestors in downtown New York City (anti-mosque, pro-mosque, et al) is the passer-by yelling “This is New York, don’t just sit there…stand up and say what you believe in.” […]
fomenting “rebellion”
Posted in Politics, tagged Climategate, Politics on September 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just read Jane Mayer’s New Yorker article on “The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama”, which I’m happy to see is publicly available online. It’s a good summary of what corporate watchers have been saying for years (see, e.g., here and here), but with a lot of interview material updating what the libertarian duo […]
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