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Ukraine, the “migrant crisis,” & the future

Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 14, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

Here are some thoughts on the humanitarian, historical, moral, and environmental implications of the crisis of refugees fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine. They were prompted by questions asked of me by a public radio interviewer. I’m still working on the answers (and the interview has not aired, as far as I can tell). Comments […]

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Mob politics, killer selfies, and the future of social media: an ecotopian perspective

Posted in Cultural politics, Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 10, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

Two points of social media use call for more attention as we make sense of this week’s events at the U. S. Capitol. 1) Videos and selfies from Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rallies are circulating online and making it easier to identify those who participated in the attempted coup at the Capitol. Images created and […]

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Feverish world, or ecotopia now?

Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , on November 21, 2018 | 6 Comments »

Feverish World (2016-2068): Arts and Sciences of Collective Survival was premised on the acknowledgment that the coming decades will be feverish in more ways than one — climatologically, politically, economically, militarily — and that the arts will be essential in helping us come to terms with that feverishness. In my comments opening the symposium, I laid […]

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