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Info war & peace, theories turning to ashes

Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 11, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

This is being cross-posted (in modified form) from UKR-TAZ, where it is part of a series examining the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The invasion of Ukraine continues to horrify, with casualties mounting and humanitarian corridors failing to materialize. But one of its more interesting dimensions, from the perspective of media and cultural theory, is the […]

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Invasion of Ukraine

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 26, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

Readers of this blog may know that I have longstanding research as well as personal/family connections in Ukraine and that I have sometimes run a parallel blog on issues related to that country. (Called “UKR-TAZ: A Ukrainian Temporary Autonomous Zone,” the blog is found here.) I recently began posting to that blog more regularly with […]

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The event of Chɵrnobyl (resonance renewed)

Posted in Anthropocene, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 25, 2022 | Leave a Comment »

My recent 2022 Mohyla Lecture at the University of Saskatchewan, “The Chɵrnobyl Event: Ecology, Media, and the Anthropocene,” is now available to be watched online. (That “ɵ” in “Chɵrnobyl” is intentional; I discuss it in the talk.) In addition to updating some of my work on the Chɵrnobyl “hyper-event” and its multiple impacts, the talk […]

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“Illiberalism” & the utopian deficit

Posted in Cultural politics, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 17, 2018 | 4 Comments »

An off-the-cuff essay, written not for any particular occasion, but just to get it out of me. It’s probably mostly common knowledge (among people on the green left), just maybe not well articulated yet, and too easily forgotten. Politically, we’re all playing a little catch-up these days. Understanding the apparent global turn we are seeing […]

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