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What’s happening?

November 9, 2015 by Adrian J Ivakhiv

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The beginning of COP 21, the UN Conference on Climate Change, is three weeks away. So what else is happening, you ask?

1) The Campaign Against Climate Change‘s Time to Act! campaign, 350.org, Reclaim Power, and various other formations are preparing actions around the world on the eve of the summit (November 28-29) and a huge demonstration in Paris on its last day, December 12.

2) The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, which had been responsible for some creative disruptions at the Copenhagen climate summit and whose previous involvements include instigating the Reclaim the Streets movement, have announced the creation of The Climate Games, a video game styled “Disobedient Action Adventure Game” to take place in the streets of Paris and around the world during the final days of the summit.

3) Adbusters, which had initiated the call that led to the Occupy Wall Street protests, have called for a Billion People March to take to the streets of the planet on December 19, a week after the conclusion of the conference.

And there are various other things in motion, like this and this and this and this and this.

And yet… As of today, a Google search for the two terms associated with #’s 2 and 3 above — “billion people march” AND “climate games” — results in only a single page. (Has anyone ever searched for something that only resulted in… a single page??) What gives?

Is it just that Adbusters, and perhaps to some extent The Climate Games, are just johnny-come-latelies to the Paris climate scene? Somehow I don’t see a billion people marching without more communication about it…

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Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics | Tagged Adbusters, Billion People March, Climate Games, ClimateJustice, COP 21, Paris climate summit | 2 Comments

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  1. on November 12, 2015 at 4:27 pm dmf

    thanks for the update, did you see:
    “possible to argue that an ecosophy of cinema also includes a social ecology. Not just as the representations of social life on screen but also, as Adrian Ivakhiv puts it in Ecocinema, the social and cultural practices and transformations cinema can bring about in the contexts of festivals, cineplexes, living rooms, social media; as well as in gestures, postures, fashion, behavior, and interpersonal relationships.”
    https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/deleuzes-metallurgic-machines


    • on November 13, 2015 at 12:24 pm Adrian J Ivakhiv

      Thanks for that – it’s a nice piece by Patricia. I’ve yet to read the others in the series…



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