People’s identities are an object of study in a range of fields, but it’s the field of cultural studies that has most singularly, even obsessively, sought to understand how identities interact with politics in changing media environments. Cultural studies first emerged in a British milieu marked by very specific relations between socio-economic classes, media industries, […]
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Mapping identities in global cultural studies
Posted in Cultural politics, Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged anthropology of globalization, capitalism, cognitive capitalism, colonialism, cosmopolitics, critical realism, cultural identity, cultural studies, cultural theory, decoloniality, ecocultural identity, etic, global cultural studies, globalization, identity politics, modernism, modernity, modernization, multiple modernities, postmodernization, reflexive modernization, reflexivity, sociology of globalization, tradition, traditionalism, traditionalization on May 28, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
Climate Action Week: What to watch for
Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged capitalism, climate communication, climate movement, ClimateJustice, Green New Deal, Greta Thunberg, memetic warfare, UN Climate Action Summit on September 16, 2019 | 3 Comments »
As people around the world prepare for Global Climate Strike Week (Sept. 20-27) and for the UN Climate Action Summit in New York City on Sept. 23, here are some thoughts and sources to help us think about what’s at stake, what’s possible, and what we can do. This blog may be updated as needed, […]
The 5 D’s
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged Alan Weisman, capitalism, Countdown, decapitalization, decarbonization, Decolonization, demilitarization, demographic transition, deplasticization, human population growth, overpopulation, plastic planet on April 11, 2018 | 3 Comments »
… that might get humans to pull through the next few centuries relatively intact as a species (if not undiminished or unscathed): Decarbonization, Deplasticization, Demilitarization, Decolonization, and Demographic Transition. The first, Decarbonization, entails a dramatic reduction in industrial production of atmospheric carbon (and other greenhouse gas) emissions. It will keep conditions for the flourishing of […]
Wark on Moore’s Capitalocene
Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged Anthropocene, capitalism, capitalocene, Jason Moore, Mackenzie Wark, Peirce on November 6, 2015 | 5 Comments »
McKenzie Wark gets at some very important issues in what we might call “the ontology of the Anthropocene” in this review of Jason Moore’s book Capitalism in the Web of Life. Moore’s work, as he acknowledges (and as I have argued here before), provides an important contribution to rethinking the relations between humanity, the nonhuman world, and […]
On naming the Anthropocene
Posted in Anthropocene, Philosophy, tagged Andy Revkin, Anthropocene, capitalism, ecopolitics, environmental humanities, two cultures on June 12, 2014 | 14 Comments »
The following are the comments I prepared for the roundtable “The Arts and Humanities Respond to the Anthropocene.” They follow in the line of critical thinking on the Anthropocene initiated by gatherings like the Anthropocene Project (see here, here, and here, and some of the posts at A(S)CENE) and journals like Environmental Humanities. As a cultural theorist, […]
Vik Muniz & his waste pickers
Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged art, capitalism, documentary, film, recycling, trash, Vik Muniz on February 25, 2013 | 3 Comments »
Here are my introductory comments to the 2010 documentary Waste Land, delivered yesterday at the Fleming Museum in Burlington and shown in connection with the exhibition High Trash, which runs until May 19.
Take-home message
Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, tagged capitalism, divestment on October 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
… from Bill McKibben and 350.org’s new roadshow, “Do The Math,” previewed tonight here at the University of Vermont: If climate scientists (and climate change modelers) are correct that the burning of more than a small fraction of the world’s available fossil fuel reserves will trigger changes that will induce paroxysms of preventable suffering, then […]
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 […]
Post-Cinematic Affect in the era of plasticity
Posted in Cinema, Philosophy, tagged capitalism, critical theory, Cubitt, film, Malabou, media, science fiction, SF, Shaviro on January 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s probably inappropriate to review a book about four films when one has only seen one, and by far the shortest (it’s a music video), of the four. So this isn’t a review so much as an appreciation of Steven Shaviro’s Post-Cinematic Affect, along with some half-digested notes I made while reading it, but which […]
Capitalism
Posted in Politics, tagged capitalism on December 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Quick thought after listening to Tom Ashbrook’s “On Point” today about the estate tax: Any system, as a coordinated set of actants and relations, will disproportionately favor those of its members who know how to work it for their own benefit. A pragmatic egalitarianism will attempt to minimize the opportunities for such disproportionate favoritism, without […]
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.