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My (post) Covid birthday

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , on July 14, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve sometimes imagined I would throw a big party when I turn sixty, the kind of party I used to throw in my twenties, when there was plenty to celebrate and plenty of people to celebrate with. (One of those was the ‘End of the World party’, which tells you the kinds of things we […]

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Dreamlife of the Anthropocene

Posted in Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 8, 2021 | 4 Comments »

The work of environmental/climate humanists is premised on the assumption that the way we make sense of the world matters. This means that the dreams we have — Covid pandemic dreams, climate change dreams — also matter. The best artists, in turn, help shape our collective dreaming. The environmental arts and humanities aim to help […]

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Post-pandemic, what will have changed?

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 13, 2021 | 2 Comments »

When we look back at this time a few decades hence, what changes will we take the pandemic of 2020-21 to have ushered in? How will it have transformed work, recreation, travel and transportation, food, politics, and everything else? The following are some initial thoughts toward a hopeful eco-justice based perspective on how the world […]

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The [Real]: on Rothko, music, & the Global Trends 2040 report

Posted in Anthropocene, Manifestos & auguries, Music & soundscape, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 15, 2021 | Leave a Comment »

Fans of Mark Rothko’s color field paintings frequently comment on the spaciousness, immersiveness, and liminality of those works: the way you can stand in front of them and feel as if you are being bathed in some transcendent force that is irreducible to anything else. Great art is (supposed to be) like that: it simply […]

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