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Trump’s challenge to humanity

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 19, 2025 | Leave a Comment »

When the president of the world’s most powerful country posts a video of himself as a jet-flying, Dr. Strangelove-like “King Trump” defecating all over his protesting critics, it is a call not just for Americans, but for humanity also, to ask itself how we got to this place. Recall that Trump today is the most […]

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What’s the question, again?

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 8, 2025 | 1 Comment »

Some sixteen years ago, in the first of a series of pieces that tried to define what my work aimed toward (which at the time I called a “post-anthropocentric political ecology”; see here and here for a few others), I wrote that “what is essential is a collective struggle to wrest a realm of compassionate […]

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Nagarjuna & ecophilosophy, pt. 2

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , on November 14, 2009 | 9 Comments »

Continuing from the previous post… “For Buddhism,” Clark writes, “the negative path of the destruction of illusion is inseparably linked to the positive path of an open, awakened, and compassionate response to a living, non-objectifiable reality, the ‘nature that is no nature.’’’

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Nagarjuna, ecophilosophy, & the practice of liberation

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , on November 14, 2009 | 8 Comments »

John Clark’s recent article in Capitalism Nature Socialism, “On being none with nature: Nagarjuna and the ecology of emptiness,” has gotten my neurons firing in a productive way. Clark is a political philosopher whose book The Anarchist Moment had long ago excited me about the prospect of melding together a Daoist-flavored, but Murray Bookchin-inspired eco-anarchism […]

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Where the Wild Things Are

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, tagged , , on October 28, 2009 | 9 Comments »

I loved Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, so I’ve compiled a list of some useful online resources about the film, book, and author (mostly for my own sake, so I can easily access them if and when I might get around to writing more about it). Just to summarize what I like most […]

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immanence & codependent origination

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I took a break from reading John Mullarkey’s Post-Continental Philosophy: An Outline – in which Mullarkey develops a philosophy of immanence drawing on, and critiquing, the respective efforts of Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, Michel Henry, and Francois Laruelle – to have some lunch and browse the latest issue of Tricycle. One of the articles, a […]

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On ground and groundlessness: Jamesonian Marxism v. Derridean deconstruction v. Buddhist onto-phenomenalism (w/ guest appearances by Lacan and Freud, spiked all the way through with ecology)

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Or, Toward an eco-Buddhist-processualist cultural criticism Note: This is work in progress and probably won’t be published for a while, and not in this form in any case. It comes from an attempt to theorize an ‘ecocritical’ understanding of culture that is in dialogue with the Marxist tradition of social and political analysis, Derridean poststructural […]

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