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Climate change as class war?

Posted in Climate change, Cultural politics, Eco-theory, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on January 31, 2023 | 5 Comments »

Thinking further about the global climate precariat (and the ontology of climate trauma, etc.), I’ve been reading a set of books that try to articulate a “class politics” for the present eco-political conjuncture. In particular, Matthew Huber’s Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet (Verso, 2022) and Bruno Latour’s and Nikolaj […]

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Readings on ecofascism and far-right ecologism

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 29, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

While it’s easy to overuse the term “ecofascism,” applying it to things that don’t necessarily deserve it (the debate might be a little like the one I’ve been following over whether Putinist Russia qualifies as fascist), it’s important for anyone involved in environmental issues to have a sense of where the term does apply and […]

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Klimat

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , on July 10, 2022 | 2 Comments »

I’ve just posted a piece called “Understanding Russia” over at UKR-TAZ, in which I look at some proximate and deeper causes of continued Russian support for the invasion of Ukraine. It’s mainly a review of some recent literature. The part that may be of greatest interest to readers of Immanence is the concluding section, in […]

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“This is a fossil fuel war”

Posted in Climate change, tagged , , , , , on March 27, 2022 | 1 Comment »

The invasion of Ukraine has shifted media attention away from many other things, Covid and climate among them. But the climate implications of the war have not gone unnoticed. To start with the obvious: Russia is a petrostate. As Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air analyst Lauri Myllyvirta writes, More than a third […]

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