Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, presenting at the Mahindra Center on October 18, 2017: Naomi Oreskes is an American historian of science. She […]
Dr. Jem Bendell is a Cambridge educated Professor of Sustainability Leadership and Founder of the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria (UK). He focuses on […]
The folks at Diffractions Collective in Prague, in collaboration with a few other groups, are hosting a second Wyrd/Patchworkshop on October 26, 2018, at 5:30pm in the U.K (9:30am Mountain […]
From October 9, 2018 The New Republic: The Case for Climate Pessimism By EMILY ATKIN Some climate change activists oppose doom-and-gloom rhetoric. They know that, if we don’t reduce greenhouse gas […]
“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 […]
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 // 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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dogen Zenji Dogen relates the words of an old Zen master: “Formerly I used to hit sleeping monks so hard that my fist just about broke. Now I am old […]
Although this post can be read alone, it might make sense to read it in sequence. The previous posts can be found here and here. I have at least two […]
What is a human? An ape stumbling quite stupidly through a world threatening to collapse. An organism that considers itself to be thriving. It has done quite well in its own estimation. […]
Survival, in the sense Desert suggests it to me, is something completely different, for in it any social group or kin network, as it attempts to live on, cannot draw significant […]
“I have been vacillating between depression and acceptance of where we are, both as victims – fragile human beings – and as perpetrators: We are the species responsible for altering […]
On Matters of Concern: Ontological Politics, Ecology, and the Anthropo(s)cene Adrian Ivakhiv Ontology is in; epistemology is out. The question is no longer how we know what we know, but […]
Philosophy, Design, Engineering (Zooetics Seminar) (MP3) – Lithuania, etc, etc: http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot.com/2015/01/philosophy-design-engineering-zooetics.html
Seminar introducing John Foster’s new book ‘After Sustainability’ with discussion by Prof Jonathan Wolff, Philosophy, UCL, and Prof Albert Weale, Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL Summary: Dangerous climate change […]
“It’s a speculative accelerated realist bootleg throwdown! This episode features STEVEN SHAVIRO and ALEXANDER GALLOWAY discussing their recently published books THE UNIVERSE OF THINGS: ON SPECULATIVE REALISM and LARUELLE: AGAINST […]
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