Catastrophe, Collapse, Apology: words missing from the IPCC report
“Over past decades those who think things are worse than what the IPCC were saying have been proved right. If that holds true now, then its time more of us […]
Tag Archives: climate change
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 […]
Utopia and Climate Change
Utopia and Climate Change // David Ruccio The warnings about the consequences of global warming are becoming increasingly dire. And with good reason. Just last month, a report by a multidisciplinary […]
What is the Philosophy of Movement? // Thomas Nail
I’m very much looking forward to Thomas Nail‘s new book Being and Motion (out from Oxford this winter) outlining an ontography and philosophical history of movement. Nothing could be more […]
We’re Fucked. So (Now) What? | R. Scott Bakker
“Conscious self-creation.” This is the nostrum Roy Scranton offers at the end of his now notorious piece, “We’re Doomed. Now What?” Conscious self-creation is the ‘now what,’ the imperative that […]
Exposed: Environmental Politics & Pleasure in Posthuman Times
Stacy Alaimo’s Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) is a provocative reflection on environmental ethics, politics, and forms of knowledge. Through a range of examples […]
The Anthropocene and the End of Postmodernism
In his 1979 book The Postmodern Condition, Jean Francois Lyotard famously described the coming age of postmodernism as a the dissolution of grand narratives, that is, overarching schemes or horizons […]
