As a Canadian who has long valued this country’s differences from the United States, I’m as concerned as anyone about the Trump administration’s threats of annexation toward Canada. This is mostly for obvious reasons: threats of annexation against sovereign nations violate Article One of the United Nations charter, and these threats are being made in […]
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Trump’s border frenzy: a tale of two elephants
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged annexation, bioregionalism, Canada, Canada-US relations, colinization, decolonialism, earthbound, ecoregionalism, Latour, tariffs, Trump on March 18, 2025 | Leave a Comment »
We are all dispensable: For a revolution of the means of information
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Media ecology, tagged information revolution, information society, kleptofascism, media ecology, Musk, revolution, tech oligarchs, techno-fascism, techno-oligarchy, technofascism, Trump on February 16, 2025 | 2 Comments »
There’s a clear lesson for us in the mass firings of federal employees, carried out as part of an administrative coup led by the world’s wealthiest tech oligarch, in the country that had up till recently been seen as the paragon of stability and prosperity. That lesson is that we are all dispensable now. In […]
Theory for a hybrid [war] world
Posted in Cultural politics, Eco-theory, Manifestos & auguries, tagged capitalocene, climate change, climate politics, critical theory, culture wars, ecopsychology, end-Holocene event, Frankfurt School, hybrid war world, hybrid world, hybridity, illiberalism, late modernity, Necrocene, present conjuncture, tech oligarchy, the present, theory on January 5, 2025 | 4 Comments »
I’m working up a conference idea around the following set of thoughts, which are still very much in the process of being formulated. Comments welcome. The present conjuncture For those who study such things, social and cultural theory — sometimes simply called “Theory” with a capital T — has done wonders for helping us understand […]
Angel of Apocalyptic History
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged Angel of History, apocalypse, Apocalyptic Anxieties, apocalypticism, climate anxiety, climate hope, eco-trauma, Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University, talks, trauma on December 9, 2023 | 2 Comments »
My talk at the recent “Apocalyptic Anxieties” conference, at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, is available for viewing at the SFU Institute for the Humanities YouTube page, or below. Here is an abstract of the talk: From the Angel of Apocalyptic History to the Optimism of the Will: Climate Hope within States of Urgency Apocalyptic […]
Woodsworth Chair: Three challenges
Posted in Academe, Manifestos & auguries, tagged eco-humanities, environmental humanities, eugenics, humanities, J. S. Woodsworth, post-human, posthumanism, posthumanities, Simon Fraser University, Woodsworth Chair on November 22, 2023 | 6 Comments »
I’m delighted to formally announce that I have accepted an offer to take up the position of J. S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, beginning next year. (Simon Fraser recently, once again, took the top spot among comprehensive universities in Macleans’ Canadian university rankings.) The chair is named after J. S. Woodsworth (1874-1942), […]
Space
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Spirit matter, tagged affect theory, apophatic theology, Buddhism on March 25, 2023 | Leave a Comment »
Like atoms and galaxies, days are full of space. What if the ways you take up this space—the pauses, transitions, and gaps between doings—shapes the world as much as the doings?* Do we fill the space with restless preoccupation? Death drive compulsions? Nervous uncertainty? Or curious delight at the poignancy of each thing?** What if […]
The global precariat and its enemies
Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries on December 3, 2022 | 2 Comments »
To put things in the simplest terms possible: The global climate precariat — all of those whose lives and communities are endangered by the storms, floods, droughts, hurricanes, wildfires, and wars produced or intensified by a destabilizing global climate system — are a vast segment of humanity. It is growing daily. Together, the global precariat […]
Toward a non-fascist ecocultural activism
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged activism, anti-fascism, ecocultural activism, ecocultural identity, ecoculture, fascism, nature, non-fascism, process-relational politics on August 16, 2022 | 3 Comments »
This post continues the ethical and political thinking I have shared in some of my eco-theoretical manifestos and asketological writings (including parts of Shadowing the Anthropocene). Its interest in ‘non-fascist life’ takes its lead from critical analysts of fascism including Wilhelm Reich, Erich Fromm, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and more recent writers […]
My (post) Covid birthday
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged birthdays, Coronavirus, Covid, COVID-19, Edward Gorey, experiences, pandemic, passages on July 14, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve sometimes imagined I would throw a big party when I turn sixty, the kind of party I used to throw in my twenties, when there was plenty to celebrate and plenty of people to celebrate with. (One of those was the ‘End of the World party’, which tells you the kinds of things we […]
Eco+Deco, a manifesto in progress
Posted in Cultural politics, Eco-theory, Manifestos & auguries, Science & society, tagged colonialism, coloniality, decolonialism, Decolonization, ecological science, ecologization, ecology, indigeneity, indigenization, land, Latour, manifestos, Ontology, postcolonialism, reindigenization, Toronto Biennale of Art on May 31, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
Some of the best art exhibitions today show that the socially engaged art world is undergoing two shifts that some of us in the environmental humanities have been advocating for some time: they ecologize and they decolonize. An excellent example of this is the second edition of the Toronto Biennale of Art, currently wrapping up […]
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