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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“Connect the dots. Take back the world.”
Posted in Politics, tagged Astra Taylor, far right, movement building, Naomi Klein, Politics, Trumpism on April 15, 2025 | Leave a Comment »
Ecologies of the Multipolar Information Disorder
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged information disorder, multipolar information disorder, multipolarity, Stormy Weather, Visual Ecologies 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 […]
Trump’s border frenzy: a tale of two elephants
Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged annexation, bioregionalism, Canada, Canada-US relations, colinization, decolonialism, earthbound, ecoregionalism, Latour, tariffs, Trump 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 […]
The fossil-fuel shakedown of Ukraine
Posted in Politics, tagged Big Oil, Donald Trump, fossil fuels, Russo-Ukrainian war, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin 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 […]
Moving fast and breaking things? Critical resources on Trump 2.0
Posted in Politics, tagged disinformation, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Heather Cox Richardson, political analysis, resistance, Trump, Trump 2.0 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 […]
The hurricane conspiracy complex
Posted in Climate change, Cultural politics, Politics, tagged climate change, climate hoax, conspiracy culture, conspiratistics, conspiratology, geoengineering, global media literacy, hurricanes, Marjorie Taylor Greene, media ecology, neoliberalism, Network Propaganda, political corruption, twitter, U.S. politics, X on October 15, 2024 | 1 Comment »
The big question around these back-to-back hurricanes in the southeast U.S. is not why they are happening (that’s easy enough to answer), but why so many people find it easier to believe they were artificially generated by the U.S. government, the “deep state,” FEMA, industry, or some euphemistic “they” (and we know who “they” are) […]
Russia, the climate crisis, & ecocide
Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged Anthropocene, capitalocene, climate crisis, colonial-capitalocene, colonialism, coloniality, decolonialism, Decolonization, ecocide, environmental consequences of war, postcolonialism, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian war, Ukraine, war on June 29, 2023 | Leave a Comment »
My recent E-Flux article, “Russia, Decolonization, and the Capitalism-Democracy Muddle,” raised the question of Russia’s potential “decolonization” — what it means (and doesn’t), and how the debate over it, and over decolonization in general, needs some political updating. The article seems no less relevant after the abortive mutiny led last week by the Wagner Group’s […]
A year of full-scale war in Ukraine
Posted in Politics, tagged climate wars, Putin, Russian invasion, Ukraine, war, war ecology on February 24, 2023 | 2 Comments »
My reflections on a year of full-scale war in Ukraine can be read here. Among them: Like Ukrainians in general, whose resistance to the Russian onslaught has been remarkable, President Volodymyr Zelensky has done wonders in so many ways. But one thing neither he nor his western supporters have succeeded at — as this New York Times analysis […]
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