Deep Adaptation: Navigating Climate Tragedy
Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy by Dr. Jem Bendell PUBLISHED July 27, 2018 Abstract: The purpose of this conceptual paper is to provide readers with an opportunity […]
Rojava: patchworking from the Real
The following builds on points made by Michael in “Global Wyrding and Deeply Adaptive Patchworking“: As long as humans have been gathering and cooperating in relatively stable sedentary complexes, issues […]
The Prescient Pessimism of Octavia Butler
// republished from LOST FUTURES // In the 2020s and ‘30s, fire ravages California towns. Migrant caravans make their way on foot towards the closed border of Oregon. A new […]
Capitalism, climate change, and the death of worlds
Do you remember those childhood TV series where machines come and chew up the earth and the forest creatures run terrified and looking back it all seems cheesy and obvious? […]
Hope and Vision in the Face of Collapse: The 4th R of Deep Adaptation
SOURCE: Hope and Vision in the Face of Collapse: The 4th R of Deep Adaptation “People need hope, Jem.” “It’s really important to have a vision of a better future, […]
The Horizon of the Absolute
What has mathematics to do with politics; and, by default, with our survival as a species, given the apparently unstoppable acceleration of capitalism, the collapse of a realistic left […]
The Emergent Patterns of Climate Change
You can’t understand climate change in pieces, says climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. It’s the whole, or it’s nothing. In this talk, Schmidt explains how he studies the big picture of […]
The Yellow Vests
The reaction by one of France’s “Yellow Vests” to Macron’s about face was as follows: “We have put Macron on one knee. Now he must fall.” This from a middle […]
