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Russia, the climate crisis, & ecocide

Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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A year of full-scale war in Ukraine

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , on February 24, 2023 | 2 Comments »

My reflections on a year of full-scale war in Ukraine can be read here. Among them: Like Ukrainians in general, whose resistance to the Russian onslaught has been remarkable, President Volodymyr Zelensky has done wonders in so many ways. But one thing neither he nor his western supporters have succeeded at — as this New York Times analysis […]

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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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Rojava at risk

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 19, 2018 | 2 Comments »

I’ve posted here before about the Kurdish experiment in social-ecological-feminist radical democracy that’s been unfolding in the unlikeliest circumstances in the northern Syrian region of Rojava. Donald Trump’s sudden announcement of a complete U.S. military withdrawal from Syria now leaves that experiment extremely vulnerable… which puts anti-war* activists into an uncomfortable position. (I add that […]

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Munich surf

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged , , , , , , , on July 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Things to do on a Sunday in Munich… 1. Find where nature and culture (river and engineering) slam into each other in a passionate wave. Ride it. Observations: To enjoy it at all, you have to be good. Some of these guys (and women) are really good. If you stay up for more than the […]

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