There’s a lot of interesting thinking going on in response to the coronavirus pandemic and how it will “change everything.” Here’s the beginning of a curated sampling. It takes for granted that there will be suffering, a lot of it, unequally distributed and with a preponderance of it coming down on first responders and low-wage, […]
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More on pandemic politics & future scenarios
Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged Coronavirus, COVID-19, disaster, disaster capitalism, disaster environmentalism, future scenarios, futures studies, pandemic politics on April 6, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
How to welcome a guest
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Coronavirus, COVID-19, EcoHealth Alliance, Edward Gorey, global ecology, hyper-events, hyperobjects, One Health Initiative, pandemics, Timothy Morton, virology, viruses on March 15, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
The outbreak of Coronavirus is a good opportunity to think about how we treat guests whose novel appearance amidst us may pose hardship, but whose continuing presence is undeniable.
Long-term civilizational prognosis: a hypothesis
Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, Spirit matter, tagged abduction, C. S. Peirce, civilizational crisis, climate crisis, climate emergency, eco-religion, global civil religion, global disorder, globalism, Latour, politics of meaning, religion, Varela on October 14, 2019 | 3 Comments »
Here’s a hypothesis: If the human community exists in some more or less unified form in 880 years (in the year 3000 by our calendar), that feat will have been accomplished, at least in part, in and through the emergence of an ecological religion. What does this mean, and how could we test it? Religion, […]
The urgency of slowing down and stopping
Posted in Manifestos & auguries on April 18, 2019 | 4 Comments »
Like many, I’ve been finding it difficult not to feel an upwelling of anxiety as the scope and scale of the climate emergency has become more and more obvious, as Trump-style political (non-)responses — precisely the kinds of responses that will only make things much worse — have scaled themselves up around the world, and […]
Feverish world, or ecotopia now?
Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged activism, Burlington Vermont, eco-arts, EcoCultureLab, ecotopia, environmental humanities, Feverish World, University of Vermont on November 21, 2018 | 6 Comments »
Feverish World (2016-2068): Arts and Sciences of Collective Survival was premised on the acknowledgment that the coming decades will be feverish in more ways than one — climatologically, politically, economically, militarily — and that the arts will be essential in helping us come to terms with that feverishness. In my comments opening the symposium, I laid […]
I am a conservative
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged Anthropocene, community values, conservatism, Donald Trump, elections, family values, pro-life, values-based on November 2, 2018 | 2 Comments »
I am a pro-life, values-based conservative. I wish and act to conserve the conditions that have allowed human life to flourish on this planet for the past 12,000 years, conditions whose continuance today is threatened. I wish and act to conserve the values — of cooperation, respect, and physical and emotional sustenance — that have […]
The 5 D’s
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged Alan Weisman, capitalism, Countdown, decapitalization, decarbonization, Decolonization, demilitarization, demographic transition, deplasticization, human population growth, overpopulation, plastic planet on April 11, 2018 | 3 Comments »
… that might get humans to pull through the next few centuries relatively intact as a species (if not undiminished or unscathed): Decarbonization, Deplasticization, Demilitarization, Decolonization, and Demographic Transition. The first, Decarbonization, entails a dramatic reduction in industrial production of atmospheric carbon (and other greenhouse gas) emissions. It will keep conditions for the flourishing of […]
The frame game
Posted in Eco-culture, Manifestos & auguries, tagged creative thinking, Edward De Bono, framing, lateral thinking, pluralism, Po on November 10, 2017 | 4 Comments »
Spin the dial and see where it lands. Take several steps in that direction. Look around. Spin again. 1. Struggle, or The World at War Frame: We are at war. The war is between the good guys and the bad guys. We must triumph. (Variations: The war is between those who are plundering the planet […]
R.I.P. Cassini
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Visual culture, tagged Blade Runner, Cassini, images, moving image, seeing, visuality on September 16, 2017 | 4 Comments »
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…” 62 moons orbiting in and around the grooved rings of Saturn. Winter and spring, hurricanes, jet streams, and auroras. Rivers and deltas pelted by methane rains on Titan. Hydrothermal vented oceans, and geysers shooting plumes of water that fall back as snow on Enceladus. Moons forming spiral waves cresting […]
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