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Pandemic politics: on disaster capitalism, socialism, and environmentalism

Posted in Academe, Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 30, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

This was originally posted over a week ago, but then taken down by request as it was being considered for publication elsewhere (but not published there). A shorter version of it appeared yesterday at VT Digger. The school I work for, the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, recently undertook a […]

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How to welcome a guest

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , 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.

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Hole in the sky (or what’s a meta for?)

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , on March 12, 2020 | 3 Comments »

As I write, there are two known cases of COVID-19 in my state of Vermont, but there are no tests available to me or to the next person to tell us if either of us could be a carrier. Universities and colleges (including my own) have cancelled classes and moved to online teaching. The air […]

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Long-term civilizational prognosis: a hypothesis

Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , 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, […]

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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 […]

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Feverish world, or ecotopia now?

Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , 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 […]

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I am a conservative

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , 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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Time for eco-revolution (a manifesto)

Posted in Anthropocene, Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 28, 2018 | 9 Comments »

Inspired by the daily litany of depressing news (and by reading Latour’s Down to Earth), I’ve succumbed to the temptation of writing a manifesto. Manifestos are cheap, I know, but we have to start somewhere. (And so many questions arise as you write one: about the proper balance between critique and vision, between generality and […]

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The 5 D’s

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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The frame game

Posted in Eco-culture, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , 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 […]

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R.I.P. Cassini

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , 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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May Day thoughts: on labor & livelihood

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 1, 2017 | 4 Comments »

May Day (Beltane, Walpurga’s Day, et al.) is a good time for reflecting on politics, ecology, and possibility. The following can be considered part of a series on this blog. When neoliberalism is understood as the alliance between economic liberalization and social liberalization — that is, between those who would “liberate” capitalist markets (who sometimes get called fiscal […]

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