I was going to post something to mark the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, but Sarah Phillips has already posted something so good, saying many of the things I would have wanted to say, that I will simply link to her article at Somatosphere and add some personal notes of my own. The […]
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Year 25 A.C. (after Chernobyl)–a love letter
Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged Chernobyl, ecology, environmental movement, nuclear politics, Tarkovsky, Ukraine, Vapniaky on April 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
WI Republicans v. Cronon: update
Posted in Academe, Politics on April 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
UW Madison has done an exemplary job responding to the Wisconsin Republican Party’s efforts to intimidate eminent environmental historian William Cronon. The two documents, by the university’s legal counsel and by chancellor Biddy Martin, are well worth reading and are available on Cronon’s blog. While many of the legalities are specific to Wisconsin, the principles […]
Scholar goes citizen goes viral
Posted in Academe, Media ecology, Politics on March 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The story of the Wisconsin Republican Party vs. environmental historian Bill Cronon makes for a rare example of a single academic’s blogging activism (blogtivism, to use that ugly word) going viral. You’ve probably heard the basic outline of what’s happened already: Cronon became interested in finding out who was behind the controversial legislation crafted by […]
Observations: politics – media – empathy
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged eventology, Japan tsunami, media ecology, new media, political ecology, Politics on March 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A few observations from the events of the last week or so: (1) Tsunamis happen. When they do, in a globally media-connected world, they bring us all a little closer together. (Not all of us; those who don’t wish to be brought closer may drift further apart. But, to risk getting overly psychoanalytical, those who’ve […]
More on communism (vision & history)
Posted in Academe, Politics on March 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Following up from the last post… Part of Jodi Dean‘s response to her critics was this paragraph: Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of communism is its capacity to return, throughout history, as an aspiration, even in the face of counter revolution, active hostility, defeat, war, etc. Communism is irreducible to the conflicts of the 20th […]
Belief in expired wor(l)ds, & in wor(l)ds to come…
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, tagged capitalism, commons, Communism, Deleuze, Hardt & Negri on March 14, 2011 | 12 Comments »
It riles me up when intelligent people whose work I respect a lot say ill-considered, if not outright indefensible, things. Jodi Dean’s post arguing that communism “worked” strikes me as such a thing. I’ve provided a lengthy counter-argument on her blog, the gist of which is that the political projects that were actually carried out […]
Revolution as clash of velocities
Posted in Politics, tagged affect, Deleuze, Egypt, resonance, revolution, Spinoza on March 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
At Space and Politics, Gaston Gordillo continues his Spinozan-Deleuzian account of the “revolutionary resonance” of the tumult spreading across the Arab world. “The longer a resonance lasts and the farther it expands the stronger it becomes. During most of human history, the maximum speed at which a revolutionary resonance traveled was the speed of the […]
Revolutionary democracy
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged Badiou, Egypt, media, nonviolence, Obama, Politics, revolution on February 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Here are a few thoughts after watching Frontline’s Revolution in Cairo, which is a very good 24-minute summary of how this particular democratic moment occurred, and after reading Badiou‘s, Hardt & Negri’s, Hallward‘s, Amit Rai‘s, and some other takes on the events. (1) The recipe: Tools + Techniques + Events + Vision = The revolution(s) […]
Here & there (or democracy is coming, sort of)
Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, Music & soundscape, Politics, Visual culture on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To the USA, perhaps… But mostly neither here nor there… There’s an interesting flare-up occurring over Moammar Gaddafi’s son Saif’s Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, involving respected political theorists David Held and Benjamin Barber, among others. (See Eric Schliesser for more.) The issues it raises are as old as the oldest profession: universities’ […]
Spreading revolution
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged Egypt, multitude, posthegemony, revolutions on February 15, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The New York Times has a couple of nice pieces on the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions: an interactive account of the key events and a more detailed piece outlining the role of the different protest groups, bloggers and Facebook-ites, nonviolent resistance tactics, and the Obama administration. A few quick thoughts: 1) Max Forte is right […]
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