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Posts Tagged ‘geopolitics’

Venezuela and the new (old) world order

Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 3, 2026 | Leave a Comment »

Cross-posting from Terrestri(e)alism. These cross-posts will end, so please subscribe there if you want to make sure you won’t miss any. No, taking over Venezuela is neither about democracy nor about drugs. It’s about four closely related things: This is the new world order, which is the final flaring up of fossil-fuel imperialism. Opposition to […]

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Terra Invicta author forum & open-access info

Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 27, 2025 | 1 Comment »

Cross-posted from UKR-TAZ. I’m happy to share the news that Terra Invicta: Ukrainian Wartime Reimaginings for a Habitable Earth, the first English-language book-length anthology of wartime Ukrainian environmental humanities writing (and art), is out now — and that it’s available as a fully open access downloadable file thanks to McGill-Queen’s University Press and the Olga M. Ciupka […]

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Sigh/n of relief

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , , on June 19, 2023 | 1 Comment »

As the world breathes a sigh of relief that this meeting happened at all, ecocritics can wonder about the semiotics of the image framing Chairman Xi Jinping’s meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Relief : Is this: China as a force of nature? Xi backed by the power of the Earth itself? Blinken […]

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Wark on the geopolitics of the Anthropocene

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Politics, tagged , , , on May 7, 2016 | 2 Comments »

McKenzie Wark has written a very provocative piece on the geopolitics of the Anthropocene, or what he calls “The Geopolitics of Hibernation.” A quote: 

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A time for grieving, a time for analysis

Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 17, 2015 | 1 Comment »

Sometimes discussions in social media feel like the internal conversations of a person with severe multiple-personality disorder trying hard to give equal voice, or at least free rein, to their many voices. And I find I can agree with all or most of those voices; and at the same time disagree. In a facebook debate […]

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