The Covid-19 situation in the United States, which has become the epicenter of new infections because of its flawed and chaotic response to the pandemic, is seen by some around the world as an emergency case of its own, requiring some sort of defensive response by countries that could become similarly infected. The Week‘s Ryan […]
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Diagnosing Trump-like derangement syndrome
Posted in Politics, tagged authoritarianism, climate change, Coronavirus, COVID-19, digital capitalism, disinformation, Donald Trump, illiberalism, information warfare, political technology, populism, Putinism, Russia, strongman politics, surveillance capitalism, Trump-Like Derangement Syndrome, United States on July 1, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
The state of things
Posted in AnthropoScene, Politics, tagged authoritarianism, Bernie Sanders, cascading global crises, climate change, degrowth, fear, global change, global environmental catastrophe, hope, illiberalism, Noam Chomsky, pandemic politics, pandemics, Raul Ruiz, sustainability, The State of Things, Wim Wenders on April 9, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
I have many friends who are despairing that, with Bernie Sanders’s exit from the presidential race, the United States has lost a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to elect a leader who is honest, reliable, and completely untethered to the vested interests that keep our whole system careening towards catastrophe (climate change, ecological collapse, mass extinction, out-of-control AI, […]
“Illiberalism” & the utopian deficit
Posted in Politics, tagged affect, authoritarianism, Bernie Sanders, Brexit, conservatism, conspiracy culture, ecopolitics, Erdogan, fascism, global political change, green politics, Illiberal International, illiberalism, Jeremy Corbyn, left politics, liberalism, political theory, populism, Putin, resentment, Trump, utopianism on September 17, 2018 | 4 Comments »
An off-the-cuff essay, written not for any particular occasion, but just to get it out of me. It’s probably mostly common knowledge (among people on the green left), just maybe not well articulated yet, and too easily forgotten. Politically, we’re all playing a little catch-up these days. Understanding the apparent global turn we are seeing […]
authoritarian body politics
Posted in Politics, tagged affect, authoritarianism, cinema, Eastern Europe, fascism, political ecology on February 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
(This post has been sitting in my Drafts folder for several days, but since it mentions The White Ribbon, which I just named 2009’s best film, I thought I might as well share it.) I just got around to reading Timothy Snyder’s brilliantly lucid article Holocaust: The ignored reality, fittingly after recently seeing Michael Haneke’s […]
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