Reading about the growing “transition towns” movement back to back with a read-through of Design Philosophy Papers’ latest issue on Bataille and “Inefficient Sustainability” has gotten me thinking about some of the unspoken premises that make their way into environmentalists’ prognostications of the future. The transition towns movement began in Totnes, England, home of the […]
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transition culture, ecology, & Bataille’s glorious excesses
Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged Bataille, ecotheory, McDonough, Ontology, epistemology, recycling, Stoekl, transition towns on September 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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