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Thoughts on an equinox

Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , on September 22, 2021 | 1 Comment »

Marking the passage of the seasons from summer to winter and back again is something people have done for millennia. Seasons are reliable — anyone living outside the equatorial band will continue to have colder and warmer seasons, probably for the rest of our lives. But many of us are realizing that larger cycles may […]

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‘Do your own research’: Conspiracy practice as media virus

Posted in Cultural politics, Media ecology, Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 5, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

Conspiracy movements like QAnon are a kind of cultural virus that spreads rapidly and widely in the new global media environment. Like invasive species, they spread into diverse cultural ecosystems, colonizing them even as they take on new forms that mimic each environment’s original inhabitants. To understand how they do this, we need to understand […]

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Inequality and environmental crisis

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 5, 2017 | 18 Comments »

As part of its Ford Foundation supported Inequality Project, The Guardian is providing a provocative glimpse of Oxford geographer Danny Dorling’s important research into inequality and the environment. It should be required reading for anyone interested in the complexities surrounding causes and potential solutions to the environmental crisis. Read the article here. No surprise that the US […]

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What’s behind the U.K. riots?

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , on August 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Okay, it’s just an ad… and for a book that focuses on a single node within a complex, multi-scaled set of relations. But that node ought to be obvious, and the fact that it isn’t tells us as much about the last 40 years as we need to know to start fixing things. More here, […]

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