Making sense of what happened at the COP 16 global climate change summit in Cancun is not easy, especially when environmental and climate justice activists seem so intensely divided among themselves (and when the mass media has paid so little attention to it all). Democracy Now yesterday pitted Friends of the Earth’s policy analyst Kate […]
Posts Tagged ‘Cancun’
Cancun: what just happened?
Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, tagged Cancun, ecopolitics on December 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
gleanings
Posted in Climate change, Uncategorized, tagged anthropology, Cancun, Harman, Shaviro on December 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Scientists found that Asian and American brains respond completely differently when faced with images of dominance and submission, and when evaluating character traits of themselves as opposed to other people. Asians and Americans gathered with other world leaders to fiddle at a Mexican resort while buildings burned. [. . .] Graham Harman and Steven Shaviro got ready to slug it out in the middleweight neo-realist philosopher category of the international thought-wrestling society. [. . .]