Bendell’s Bristol Lecture on Deep Adaptation
This Jem Bendell’s lecture on Deep Adaptation, delivered in Bristol, UK, in Feb 2019. Bendell uses a more informal format, inviting the audience to explore forms of action additional to […]
Tag Archives: ecognosis
Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning (1973)
Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning by Horst W., J. Rittel and Melvin M. Webber Policy Sciences Vol. 4, No. 2 (Jun., 1973), pp. 155-169 Abstract: The search for scientific […]
The Secular Fanaticism of Indifference
“Maybe we need an indifferent politics, as well. A politics that no longer seeks to erase, exclude, and shame the opposition into hyperconformity. Without oppositional thinking, without contrarian thought we […]
The Madhouse Effect
How climate change denial is threatening our planet, destroying our politics, and driving us crazy. This was recorded on Wednesday, March 06, 2019 at MIT: Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor […]
Landscapes of Terminal Capitalism
“Aporias of Responsibility: Lifeworlds Inherited, Inhabited and Bequeathed” The ‘Anthropocene’ captures an emerging recognition, and interest in, the specificity of human geo-social formations; that is, the simultaneous operation of human-created […]
Collapse of Complex Societies
In the video below anthropologist and historian Dr. Joseph Tainter, author of the classic study The Collapse of Complex Societies (1988), details some of the factors which led to the collapse of […]
Facing Breakdown
The following report was published on Feb 12/2019 by the Institute for Public Policy Research. The conclusions are as clear as they are alarming. No one associated with policy or […]
