Archive for February, 2014
A Bit of Politics
• February 22, 2014 • 20 CommentsPosted in climate change, critical theory, eco-social theory, peak oil, social change, social theory
Tags: alienation, anti-capitalism, autonomy, civil disobedience, direct action, direct democracy, emergence, heteronomy, human nature, participatory democracy, self-management, the good society, the State, voluntary slavery
TLDR: The Loss of Reading & Knowledge
• February 16, 2014 • 4 CommentsPosted in critical theory, epistemology, essays, social change, social theory
Tags: critical reading, death of reading, death of the book, digital alienation, information is not knowledge, on screen reading, reading, shallow reading, tldr
Christoph Schuch’s ‘Butterfly Stories’
• February 15, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in art, climate change, ecology, poetry, social change, Uncategorized
Tags: butterflies, Butterfly Stories, Christoph Schuch, ecology, films, monarch butterfly, movies, nature docos
Double Standards and the Left
• February 12, 2014 • 7 CommentsPosted in critical theory, essays, social change, social theory
Tags: anarchism free socialism, anti-Leninism, Cruise Missile Left, double standards, human rights, Left bellicists, leftist conformity, leftist double standards, libertarian socialism, political ethics, universal human rights
Chronicle of the Ongoing Ruins
• February 9, 2014 • 11 CommentsPosted in essays, poetry, social change, social theory
Tags: anthropocene, celebrity culture, found poems, nature deficit disorder, poems, poetry, prose poetry, society of the spectacle, the spectacle
Art as Obscenity
• February 5, 2014 • 15 CommentsPosted in art, critical theory, history, poetry, social change, social theory
Tags: Adorno, art, art as obscenity, Auschwitz, Beckett, Bernstein in Hiroshima, concentration camp art, contemporary poetics, contemporary poetry, Dada, Guenther Anders, Kiefer, Kiefer's Man under Pyramid, National Gallery Canberra, poetics, poetry, poetry after Auschwitz, Resnais' Hiroshima mon Amour
Towards a Liberatory Technology
• February 2, 2014 • 7 CommentsPosted in climate change, peak oil, permaculture, social change, social ecology, social theory
Tags: anarchist technology, anti-authoritarian technology, democratic technology, IOPS, lonnie atkinson, open source ecology, participatory democracy
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