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Letter to a vaccine skeptic

Posted in Cultural politics, Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 12, 2021 | 1 Comment »

The following distills the essence of my responses to questions from a vaccine (and Covid) skeptical friend. I share it in case it’s useful for others (and because it updates a few things I’ve written before on the topic). I’m not an epidemiologist and the comments on the science of the pandemic are those of […]

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Hydroxychloroquine, and other things (an STS perspective)

Posted in Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 20, 2020 | 4 Comments »

The Covid-19 pandemic has offered all kinds of interesting case studies for those who study controversies in science, technology, and medicine. Hydroxychloroquine is one of them. It’s a bit unusual in that it highlights how the left-liberal mediasphere has sometimes followed similar trajectories as more commonly found on the (Trumpist) political right. But it’s interesting […]

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The machine has stopped: what now?

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 19, 2020 | 5 Comments »

The “reopening” of the world’s economies, locally and nationally, piece by piece, after the sudden and massive stoppage of the entire economic system, is raising important questions about whether the system can be put back into motion selectively and into a more viable direction than it had been moving beforehand. Some observers have suggested, optimistically, […]

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Pandemic epistemology 2

Posted in Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 4, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been haunted by Ed Yong’s description of science from the Atlantic article “Why Coronavirus is So Confusing,” which I shared a few days ago: “This is how science actually works. It’s less the parade of decisive blockbuster discoveries that the press often portrays, and more a slow, erratic stumble toward ever less uncertainty. “Our […]

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Pandemic epistemology

Posted in Science & society, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 30, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

One of the silver linings about the coronavirus pandemic is that it has made some people, and even institutions, more generous (at least temporarily). Among them are popular and academic journals that have removed their paywalls and offered their publications for free. (I shared one of my own articles in that category yesterday. The irony, […]

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The world’s downtown

Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 13, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

With New Yorkers forced to stay home, and arts organizations getting creative in how they are making available their offerings, The New Yorker‘s “Goings On About Town” section has suddenly become more relevant to the rest of us, whose visits to the city were previously so infrequent as to make reading it a form of […]

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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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CFP: “When Corona Met Climate Change…”

Posted in Academe, Climate change, Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , , , on April 7, 2020 | 1 Comment »

Please share the following call for presenters: “When Corona Met Climate Change… What Changed?” A series of live, short (under 3 minutes), and creative responses to the intersection of coronavirus and climate change, 50 years after Earth Day and 50 years before Ecotopia Day (EarthDay+100).

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More on pandemic politics & future scenarios

Posted in Climate change, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , , on April 6, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

There’s a lot of interesting thinking going on in response to the coronavirus pandemic and how it will “change everything.” Here’s the beginning of a curated sampling. It takes for granted that there will be suffering, a lot of it, unequally distributed and with a preponderance of it coming down on first responders and low-wage, […]

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