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Venezuela and the new (old) world order

Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 3, 2026 | Leave a Comment »

Cross-posting from Terrestri(e)alism. These cross-posts will end, so please subscribe there if you want to make sure you won’t miss any. No, taking over Venezuela is neither about democracy nor about drugs. It’s about four closely related things: This is the new world order, which is the final flaring up of fossil-fuel imperialism. Opposition to […]

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Choice points & antagonisms

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , on December 1, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

There’s a scene about 35 minutes into “2000 Meters to Andriivka,” the harrowing Ukrainian war documentary that aired on Frontline last week, where a soldier and the embedded cameraman-director are complimenting each other on their Ukrainian speech. One is from the near-border city of Kharkiv, the other from just outside it, and both mention how […]

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Terra Invicta author forum & open-access info

Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 27, 2025 | 1 Comment »

Cross-posted from UKR-TAZ. I’m happy to share the news that Terra Invicta: Ukrainian Wartime Reimaginings for a Habitable Earth, the first English-language book-length anthology of wartime Ukrainian environmental humanities writing (and art), is out now — and that it’s available as a fully open access downloadable file thanks to McGill-Queen’s University Press and the Olga M. Ciupka […]

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Trump’s challenge to humanity

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 19, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

When the president of the world’s most powerful country posts a video of himself as a jet-flying, Dr. Strangelove-like “King Trump” defecating all over his protesting critics, it is a call not just for Americans, but for humanity also, to ask itself how we got to this place. Recall that Trump today is the most […]

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The axis of oil

Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on August 19, 2025 | 1 Comment »

There are three main hypotheses explaining Donald Trump’s eagerness to please Vladimir Putin. The first is “conspiratorial”: that Putin has something over Trump, related perhaps to the Steele dossier, Trump’s real estate shenanigans, the KGB’s long-term efforts to cultivate Trump as a “Russian asset,” or maybe even the Epstein files (Trump and Putin do, after […]

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“Connect the dots. Take back the world.”

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , on April 15, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

The horror story unfolding around us continues. A typical day (let’s say, yesterday) may include President Trump (1) again accusing Ukrainian president Zelensky of “starting” a war against Russia (after Trump’s attempted shakedown of that country for its resources, despite the fact that Ukraine gave up its nukes in exchange for security guarantees from the […]

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Ecologies of the Multipolar Information Disorder

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , on April 3, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

Two recent talks of mine just became available on YouTube. They are “The New Ecologies of Images: Ecomedia Ontology in the Capitalocene,” given in January at the Visual Ecologies conference in Strasbourg, and “Ecologies of the Multipolar Information Disorder: On Recent Elections, Current Wars (and Coups), and Climate Disasters to Come,” given last month at […]

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Trump’s border frenzy: a tale of two elephants

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on March 18, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

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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The fossil-fuel shakedown of Ukraine

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , on March 9, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

I highly recommend Antonia Juhasz’s Rolling Stone cover story “Is Trump’s ‘Minerals Deal’ a Fossil Fuel Shakedown?” In a Facebook post, Juhasz notes that Ukrainian president Zelensky “is on his way to Saudi Arabia next week, being forced into a corner by the unholy alliance of Putin and Trump and to sign an ‘extortionist’ ‘neocolonial […]

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End of the Interregnum, or just the beginning of its end?

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 6, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

It’s looking increasingly likely that the last 35 years or so will come to be seen as an Interregnum between two world orders: the Cold War order, which emerged from the ashes of World War Two, and whatever it is that is beginning to envelop us now. The question is whether what is enveloping us […]

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Moving fast and breaking things? Critical resources on Trump 2.0

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , on February 3, 2025 | 1 Comment »

With its flurry of perplexing and often contradictory initiatives and statements, Donald Trump’s second presidency is leaving traditional media outlets, along with their tired viewers, overwhelmed and incapacitated (qualities exacerbated by the media outlets’ oligarchic owners’ kowtowing to the new administration). There are still many good journalists doing important work. But there’s also a palpable […]

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No common (sense) world

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 12, 2024 | Leave a Comment »

Here are my thoughts on the US election, and on the challenges it presents us, in four parts. 1. The informational catastrophe, and the sadness of it For all the reasons to be dismayed about these elections, there’s one that saddens me most. It’s that all the people (me among them) who’ve given their professional […]

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