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 […]
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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 »
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 […]
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 »
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, […]
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 […]
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