Here are a few thoughts coming out of the five weeks of readings in decolonial theory that I’m doing with my Advanced Environmental Humanities class (which has been online and open to the interested public). The course is centrally concerned with the present “global moment,” and the following can be considered a short take on […]
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Equinoxx
Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged Bill McKibben, bioregionalism, equinox, seasons, Vermont, weather on March 24, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
Equinoxes and solstices are geometrical phenomena. They mark the passage of time in ways that are easy to understand and more or less universal. I understand people’s desire to watch for them, to mark them out, and to even reclaim them as somehow more primordial than other kinds of temporal passage points. But changing seasons […]
Another cheap ecocultural manifesto
Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Manifestos & auguries, tagged ClimateJustice, environmental justice, manifesto, manifestos, principles, statements on March 8, 2021 | 2 Comments »
Manifestos are back in style (if this one, this one, and this one are any indication). Here’s my latest crack at a fairly simple statement of principle. The lesson of the field of environmental studies, to which I’ve dedicated more than three decades of my life, is that there’s a civilizational task ahead of us. […]
America is waiting: Meme magic & the spiritual practices of the Interregnum
Posted in Cultural politics, Manifestos & auguries, Spirit matter, tagged alt-right, America is Waiting, Byrne and Eno, election interregnum, election magic, Interregnum, Interregnum before the Interregnum, meme magic, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Paula White, power of prayer, prayer, remix culture, spiritual practices, Trumpism on November 6, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
One of the things I study is spiritual practices – which I’ll define (for simplicity’s sake) as the things people do to enhance their capacity to live in accordance with chosen ideals. Those ideals can be defined in religious terms (for instance, as salvation, enlightenment, or unity with God) or in more secular and philosophical […]
Generalized Floating Dread Event (GFDE)
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged 2020 U.S. presidential election, affective contagion, affective politics, dark flow, dark matter, emptiness, political affect, revolutions, Zizek on October 30, 2020 | 2 Comments »
Rather like the Airborne Toxic Event in Don Delillo’s 1980s novel White Noise, these days seem, to many of us, suffused with a kind of Generalized Floating Dread. I’ve picked this sense up from students, from colleagues, from friends and neighbors. It is as if there is a cloud of dark matter around us, whose […]
Creation of the world in seven days
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged apocalypse, creation story, Day Six, Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch, holy triamazikamno, octave doctor, Peter Sloterdijk on September 15, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
On day one, I poked an eye open. And shut it tight. On day two, I tried again, looked around, grasped for something, clutched it tight. Then I ate it. On day three (a lot of things happened between days two and three), I started thinking.
Thought exercise (democracy & reality)
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged democracy, tipping points, Trump on September 11, 2020 | 1 Comment »
See how far you follow my line of thinking here: (1) Democracy (institutional and not just majoritarian/representational) is better than the alternatives. Let’s live with it (and defend it). (2) Democracy as practiced in the U.S. today is partial, compromised, and somewhat muzzled, but still better than the alternatives. Let’s fix it up. (3) Democracy, […]
Russian roulette (on a daily basis)
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged news, Trumpland on June 27, 2020 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday was a perfect illustration of how exciting (and bewildering) it can be to read the U.S. national news. Here’s a multiple-choice quiz about it. Which of the following occurred yesterday?
We are all tuteishi (or, on not being posthuman)
Posted in Cultural politics, Manifestos & auguries, tagged alternative humanism, bioregionalism, border identities, borderlands, Bruno Latour, cultural identity, earthbound, ethnicity, Gaia, Galician, global cultural studies, humanism, identity, mestizo, nationality, Origins of the Slavic Nations, place, placelessness, posthuman, posthumanism, posthumanities, postmodern, premodern, Russian, Rusyn, Serhii Plokhy, Slavic, tuteishi, tuteishyi, Ukrainian, Zomia on June 17, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
A social media conversation prompted me to dig up something I had written in my notebook years ago after reading Serhii Plokhy’s masterful book on “premodern identities” in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Which in turn prompted me to realize that coronavirus provides an answer to the question I had just finished writing an article about […]
Earth Day dream, with St. Leonard of Westmount
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged communal apartments, Earth Day, Irving Layton, Kiev, Kyiv, Leonard Cohen, Pope Francis, Radio Moscow, Radio Moskva, St. Leonard of Westmount, Ukraine, Vydubychi monastery on April 22, 2020 | 1 Comment »
I dreamt that Leonard Cohen appeared by my bedside. He smiled and reassured me that things will be alright: “They will all have been beautiful in the end.” I wanted to ask him something, but wasn’t sure what. Then he was gone. The radio (it was Radio Moskva, from back when I spent a fall […]
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