Derek Wall at the eco-lefty Another Green World has just alerted us to an excellent piece new Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom has written on the climate change debate. Please read it, ye Copenhagen-bound.
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Ostrom on climate change
Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged economics, Ostrom on November 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
plutonomy, Michael Moore, & Canada
Posted in Politics, tagged Connolly, economy, Michael Moore, Obama, Politics, resonance machines on October 19, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I’ve written before about William Connolly’s notion of the evangelical-capitalist resonance machine, a description of the cozy relationship that’s developed between the economic right and the social-moralistic right over the last couple of decades in the U.S. It’s not merely an alliance of converging interests, since the two groups’ interests don’t always align with each […]
Ostrom’s Nobel, the commons, & blog flow
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged commons, economics, Hardt & Negri, Ostrom, resource management on October 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Several days of silence calls for at least a whimper of sound here… I’ve been on the road (Washington, DC, Boston, and tomorrow Montreal) and writing for crisp deadlines in amidst the travel. And I’m still uncertain as to whether it’s better to post little snippets just to keep the flow coming to your blog […]
Derrick Jensen’s Star Wars diet lite
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged Derrick Jensen, ecopolitics, media on September 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I agree with Mediacology‘s critique of Derrick Jensen’s ‘dark side’ — or at least of a certain linearity in his political vision — but I still find his Star Wars spoof pretty funny. And I think it’s good to have someone saying the things he says (like these). And his column does add some fire […]
Teddy Goldsmith & left-right ecopolitics
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged ecopolitics on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The obits have been coming in, albeit a little slowly, for Edward “Teddy” Goldsmith, founder of the fearless and influential British journal The Ecologist, co-founding member of Britain’s Green and Ecology parties, and publisher of the instrumental 1972 manifesto A Blueprint for Survival. Goldsmith, who died in his sleep on August 21, was a controversial […]
prairie dogs & cosmopolitics in Santa Fe
Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Philosophy, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged anthropology, Christianity, cosmopolitics, ecopolitics, ecotheology, Latour, paganism, Stengers, syncretism on August 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Over the past several days I’ve gone from the cool wetness of Alaska’s southeast coast to the high dryness of north-central New Mexico. The first was pure holiday, accompanied by loved ones (including those who generously funded it) and featuring glaciers, salmon, a black bear (devouring one of the salmon), a ride on one of […]
Spinoza’s parakeets, sparrows, & roses
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged dualism, immanence, Spinoza on July 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today, my last day in Amsterdam, I finally made it to the monument unveiled last year honoring Baruch de Spinoza. Since the talk I gave at the ISSRNC conference here was on immanence (specifically, Charles Taylor’s concept of the ‘immanent frame’ and William Connolly’s and others’ immanent naturalism), there was no way around visiting the […]
Žižek on Iran
Posted in Politics, tagged Iran, Zizek on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m reprinting Slavoj Žižek’s (copyright-free) analysis of the events in Iran, which were forwarded to Infinite Thought by Ali Alizadeh, who I mentioned in a recent post. It’s vintage Žižek: by turns provocative, unpredictable, overwrought, and brilliant, in its verve if not necessarily its accuracy, though I think he gets it mostly right. I would […]
happy solstice
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged eventology, immanence, paganism, revolution, revolutions, solstice on June 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Two revolutions are being marked this weekend. One of them is natural, cyclical, the revolution of the earth around the sun with the sun reaching its most northerly point (in closeness to the surface of the tilted planet we live on), standing still for a brief moment, and turning back to the south. The second […]
filmmakers & the Iranian opposition
Posted in Cinema, Politics, tagged art, cultural ecology, film, Iran on June 20, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Two of the world’s best known Iranian artists, Marjane Satrapi, author of the graphic novel Persepolis and director of the Oscar-winning animated feature based on it, and leading filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, have been presenting apparent “proof” at the European Parliament that Mousavi actually won the elections. This comes in the form of an internal memo […]
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