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Russia, the climate crisis, & ecocide

Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 29, 2023 | Leave a Comment »

My recent E-Flux article, “Russia, Decolonization, and the Capitalism-Democracy Muddle,” raised the question of Russia’s potential “decolonization” — what it means (and doesn’t), and how the debate over it, and over decolonization in general, needs some political updating. The article seems no less relevant after the abortive mutiny led last week by the Wagner Group’s […]

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Eco+Deco, a manifesto in progress

Posted in Cultural politics, Eco-theory, Manifestos & auguries, Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 31, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

Some of the best art exhibitions today show that the socially engaged art world is undergoing two shifts that some of us in the environmental humanities have been advocating for some time: they ecologize and they decolonize. An excellent example of this is the second edition of the Toronto Biennale of Art, currently wrapping up […]

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The “what does it have to do with me?” defense

Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 11, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

A casual comment on a minor article in a provincial newspaper in a faraway country (Ukraine) got me going on a response to what is, essentially, the white world’s default position on all things racial. (Social media comments, as a rule, aren’t indicative of anything, but this one is so symptomatic it’s worth examining.) The […]

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