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 Jon Stewart, Politics on August 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just had to share this. Hat tip to Reconciliation Ecology.
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 […]
the chain of likes & loves
Posted in Politics, tagged alter-globalism, G-20, globalization, protest 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 […]
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:
the postcapitalist self
Posted in Politics, tagged Gibson-Graham, postcapitalism 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 […]
mutant capitalism v. homeland security
Posted in Politics, tagged capitalism on June 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Fzm1hEiDQ&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 As told by John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and Hoodwinked. Thanks to Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters for the tip.
drill baby drill…
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged ecopolitics, oilpocalypse 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 […]
offshore toxic event
Posted in Politics, Visual culture, tagged ecopolitics, eventology, media, oilpocalypse 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?
Cape Wind’s next-gen ecology
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics on May 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
How refreshing to be finally moving into the era of green-green conflicts — ecological controversies in which both sides claim to be defending what we used to call “nature” (or “the ecology”) and both actually make a good case for it. The Cape Wind energy project presages the kind of ecological conflict we will hopefully […]
Earth Day 40
Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged ClimateJustice, Earth Day, ecopolitics, environmentalism on April 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been posting links to Earth Day news in the shadow blog (which you can follow in the column to your right on the Immanence main page). The most interesting news, to my mind, was the initiative for a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth and the calls to establish an international climate […]
climate intelligence
Posted in Climate change, Politics on April 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Greenpeace has done a nice (counter) intelligence report on Koch Industries’ funding of the climate denial machine. According to the report, the Kansas-based petroleum and chemical industry conglomerate funded a network of lobbyists, think tanks, and front groups including the Mercatus Center, the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, and others, […]
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