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Planet of Some Humans

Posted in Cinema, Climate change, Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 1, 2020 | 5 Comments »

This past week has seen a firestorm of reaction among environmentalists and climate and energy scientists to the online release of the film Planet of the Humans. Written, directed, and produced by first-time director Jeff Gibbs, but — much more importantly — executive-produced and actively promoted by Michael Moore, the film is incendiary and intentionally […]

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The state of things

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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, […]

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Time for eco-revolution (a manifesto)

Posted in Anthropocene, Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 28, 2018 | 9 Comments »

Inspired by the daily litany of depressing news (and by reading Latour’s Down to Earth), I’ve succumbed to the temptation of writing a manifesto. Manifestos are cheap, I know, but we have to start somewhere. (And so many questions arise as you write one: about the proper balance between critique and vision, between generality and […]

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