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on Buddhism, objects, Zizek, Morton, etc.

Posted in Politics, Spirit matter, tagged , , , on October 25, 2010 | 5 Comments »

I’ve been meaning to catch up on the discussions over Buddhism and objects/relations, Slavoj Zizek’s critique of “Western Buddhism,” and related topics, which have been continuing on Tim Morton’s Ecology Without Nature, Jeffrey Bell’s Aberrant Monism, Skholiast’s Speculum Criticum Traditionis, and elsewhere. I haven’t quite caught up, but here are a few quick notes on […]

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letter to a Tea Party sympathizer

Posted in Politics, tagged , on October 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »

As another political season (leading to the midterm elections) winds down here in the US, people get wound up. Here’s part of something I wrote to a friend who happens to be a Tea Party sympathizer – which surprised me when I found this out, but life is full of surprises, and meeting them mindfully […]

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fomenting “rebellion”

Posted in Politics, tagged , on September 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve just read Jane Mayer’s New Yorker article on “The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama”, which I’m happy to see is publicly available online. It’s a good summary of what corporate watchers have been saying for years (see, e.g., here and here), but with a lot of interview material updating what the libertarian duo […]

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eco-Marxism & the “4 laws of ecology”

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, tagged , , , , , on September 6, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Marx’s insights for ecology are many. The four “informal laws of ecology,” as Levi Bryant points out in his post on John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology, are not one of them (let alone four). These “laws” have been making their rounds ever since biologist and eco-socialist (and one-time Citizens Party candidate for the U.S. presidency) […]

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Jon Stewart gives up

Posted in Politics, tagged , on August 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Just had to share this. Hat tip to Reconciliation Ecology.

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capitalism pats itself on the back

Posted in Politics on July 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Two stark facts about our world, from yesterday’s news: (1) that a single man can be paid $1.84 billion dollars, as the Wall Street Journal announced yesterday — that’s 1,840 million dollars — over the last ten years of careening capitalism, (2) and that this doesn’t strike enough people as an obscenity to be labeled […]

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the chain of likes & loves

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , on June 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Governments (in this case, it was the Conservative federal government of Stephen Harper) like to host these big international gatherings; they think it builds their national and international prestige. Police like to provide the security for them; they get lots of $ for new toys and great opportunities to try them out. Protestors like, or […]

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retreat

Posted in Politics, tagged , , on June 27, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Being TV-free (but wifi-capable) in the wilds of northeast Vermont, Facebook has become my main news source about the G20 protests in Toronto. I’m taking the liberty of posting a snippet of (anonymous) conversation involving a friend who is there and a handful of interlocutors watching from a distance:

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the postcapitalist self

Posted in Politics, tagged , on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

(Note: This post was originally called “Gibson-Graham live on.”) The latest issue of art & theory journal e-flux is on the “postcapitalist self”, a term taken from J. K. Gibson-Graham’s brilliant work on postcapitalist politics. It features an insightful interview with commons theorists Massimo De Angelis and Stavros Stavrides. The issue is dedicated to Julie […]

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mutant capitalism v. homeland security

Posted in Politics, tagged on June 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »

As told by John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and Hoodwinked. Thanks to Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters for the tip.

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drill baby drill…

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , on May 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »

How’s that drill-baby-drilly stuff workin’ out for ya? On the other hand, the violence in détournements like this one is pretty grotesque. I’m even hesitant to link to it, let alone embedding it, for fear of getting my hands too dirty. I don’t think I’d want the guy who made it (no question it’s a […]

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offshore toxic event

Posted in Politics, Visual culture, tagged , , , on May 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »

The OTE keeps unfolding… Does that thing (between 0:11 and 0:27) know what it is swimming through?? Here’s a good collection of some of the most memorable images (but what’s that awful music?): Does Sarah McLaughlin improve things a little?

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