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Assessing Murray Bookchin’s legacy

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , on July 12, 2016 | 5 Comments »

Damian White has posted an excellent review of Janet Biehl’s book Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin at the Jacobin blog. Bookchin’s legacy has undergone something of a revival of late thanks to the efforts of Kurdish eco-socialist communitarians in Rojava.

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A case for a non-mammalian food ethic

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , , on January 12, 2016 | 24 Comments »

Vegetarianism has been part of my identity for the last 25 years (thanks to arguments like this one and this one), but I’ve been increasingly recognizing the term’s limits.

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To bother (with protest), or not?

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , on December 4, 2015 | 2 Comments »

Writing in The Independent, “Left accelerationists” Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek make the case that we need not bother protesting the Paris climate summit. There are better things to do than that. They argue, first, that the negotiators won’t change anything under pressure, and probably won’t even notice that pressure coming from the streets. (Especially […]

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What’s happening?

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , on November 9, 2015 | 2 Comments »

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 […]

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Cinema, ecology, & the death of carbon capitalism

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , on June 23, 2015 | 3 Comments »

Rice University’s Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS) has made my Cultures of Energy talk available on their YouTube channel. It’s a longer version of the material I presented at the SCMS “Post-Cinema” panel. Here’s the abstract: This paper thinks through the intersections of three developments: (1) the much debated “end of cinema” […]

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Coming Thursday to news screens near you

Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged on June 16, 2015 | 1 Comment »

To have the world’s leading religious figure make a statement like this one — heavily anticipated and already leaked out in draft form — will be a game-changer. And a godsend (literally for some, figurally for most) to the climate justice community — which, after all, should be all of us.

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The cosmopolitics of Herzog’s bears

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 12, 2015 | 1 Comment »

One of the films that gets a lengthy treatment in my book Ecologies of the Moving Image is Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, about the death of Timothy Treadwell at the hands of a brown bear in Alaska. I characterized it there as a complex and nuanced film that provides a series of somewhat contradictory — but cognitively and […]

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Shake-up in oil country

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , on May 7, 2015 | 4 Comments »

There is a lot being said about the unexpected rout of the long-ruling Progressive Conservative government in the oil-rich Canadian province of Alberta by the socialist New Democrats. Some of it (on the left) is euphoric and over the top — which is understandable given the seemingly helpless state of the left across much of North […]

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4 Noble Truths of Socio-Ecological Suffering

Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-culture, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , on May 1, 2015 | 8 Comments »

Some 2500 years ago, a man named Siddhartha Gotama articulated what have come to be known as the “4 Noble Truths”: the truth of dukkha, or fundamental suffering (that there is a basic unsatisfactoriness to life), the truth of its causes (that it arises from an ignorance and misperception of the nature of things, which are […]

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33⅓ Environmental Studies greats (or, a canon, revisited)

Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , on April 9, 2015 | 10 Comments »

The following is a significantly revised version of an article I posted to the Indications blog (and etc) five and a half years ago. I was curious to see how much of it still holds (a lot, I think), so I’ve revisited it and expanded its proposed sort-of-canon, in the second part of what follows, into a list of […]

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Peak wild fish (or, one more of 1000 plateaus)

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , , , on January 14, 2015 | 1 Comment »

Two kinds of historical turning points define our era. The first kind involves the retrospective identification of new forms of enclosure, exploitive intensification, or system derailment. Debates over the beginnings of a recession, or of a war, or — on a larger scale — of the Anthropocene, are about this kind of backdating: how far back do we […]

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GMO debate: New Yorker vs. Vandana Shiva

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on November 3, 2014 | 1 Comment »

With its passage of Act 120 this past June, Vermont became the first U.S. state to require mandatory labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). (This followed Connecticut’s and Maine’s decisions to require it once adjacent states do.) Since then, GMO food manufacturers have announced they will challenge that decision in court. Meanwhile, critics of GMOs […]

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