The nearly 400-page, richly illustrated anthology Terra Invicta: Ukrainian Wartime Reimaginings for a Habitable Earth, which I conceived and edited as part of a Fulbright award held in Berlin (originally meant to be held in Ukraine, but displaced due to the war), is now available for pre-ordering. Please encourage your libraries and bookstores to order […]
Posts Tagged ‘Russo-Ukrainian war’
Love, land, war, and ecology, Ukrainian-style
Posted in Eco-culture, tagged ecopolitics, Russo-Ukrainian war, Slavoj Žižek, Terra Invicta, war on September 5, 2025 | Leave a Comment »
The axis of oil
Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged climate politics, Donald Trump, fossil fuel politics, petropolitics, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian war, Vladimir Putin on August 19, 2025 | 1 Comment »
There are three main hypotheses explaining Donald Trump’s eagerness to please Vladimir Putin. The first is “conspiratorial”: that Putin has something over Trump, related perhaps to the Steele dossier, Trump’s real estate shenanigans, the KGB’s long-term efforts to cultivate Trump as a “Russian asset,” or maybe even the Epstein files (Trump and Putin do, after […]
Forthcoming books
Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged Andrey Kurkov, digital media, forthcoming books, image theory, imagination, Russo-Ukrainian war, Terra Invicta, The New Lives of Images, Ukraine, Ukrainian ecocriticism on April 17, 2025 | 1 Comment »
I’m happy to share the news that both The New Lives of Images and Terra Invicta are now available for pre-order. The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds is a theoretically and empirically rich study of images, imagination, and the digital. It’s the fourth in a tetralogy of books […]
The fossil-fuel shakedown of Ukraine
Posted in Politics, tagged Big Oil, Donald Trump, fossil fuels, Russo-Ukrainian war, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin on March 9, 2025 | Leave a Comment »
I highly recommend Antonia Juhasz’s Rolling Stone cover story “Is Trump’s ‘Minerals Deal’ a Fossil Fuel Shakedown?” In a Facebook post, Juhasz notes that Ukrainian president Zelensky “is on his way to Saudi Arabia next week, being forced into a corner by the unholy alliance of Putin and Trump and to sign an ‘extortionist’ ‘neocolonial […]
Russia, the climate crisis, & ecocide
Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged Anthropocene, capitalocene, climate crisis, colonial-capitalocene, colonialism, coloniality, decolonialism, Decolonization, ecocide, environmental consequences of war, postcolonialism, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian war, Ukraine, war on June 29, 2023 | Leave a Comment »
My recent E-Flux article, “Russia, Decolonization, and the Capitalism-Democracy Muddle,” raised the question of Russia’s potential “decolonization” — what it means (and doesn’t), and how the debate over it, and over decolonization in general, needs some political updating. The article seems no less relevant after the abortive mutiny led last week by the Wagner Group’s […]