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The Chronicle of Turbulent Times: 2020/21
• February 5, 2024 • Leave a CommentPosted in anthropocene, climate change, climate emergency, critical theory, essays, history, social change
Tags: China surveillance societ, colonial repearations, global rightwing, global rightwing resurgence, global shift to nationalism, global shift to right, Inequality in China, reparations, rigged election lie, Trump and protofascism, Trumpism, trumpism-fascism, Uighurs oppression
The Chronicle of Turbulent Times: 2020
• February 5, 2024 • 2 CommentsPosted in anthropocene, climate change, climate emergency, covid-19, ecology, history, sixth mass extinction, social change
Tags: AMR deaths 2020, chronicle of 2020, climate change, corona pandemic 2020, covid 19 pandemic 2020, ecosystem collapse, environment, global vaccine nationalism, invasive species 2020, megafires 2020, pandemic global inequality, stats for 2020, supergrids, sustainability, the year 2020, Trumpism in 2020, zoonosis 2020
Three (Possible) Futures
• January 29, 2024 • Leave a CommentPosted in anthropocene, Big History, climate change, climate emergency, critical theory, eco-social theory, essays, One World consciousness, One World planetary civilization, philosophy, social change, social ecology, social theory, theory of evolution
Tags: bad anthropocene, collapse of civilization, contraction and convergence, degrowth, fair earth share, Good Anthropocene, green industrialization, human rights, human rights as universal values, new dark ages, One World, One-world consciousness, participatory democracy, relocalisation, social collapse, three futures, wealth redistribution, world-centrism
Trumpism III: Countering Fascism
• December 10, 2023 • 1 CommentPosted in critical theory, essays, social change, social theory
Tags: anti-fascism, anti-fascist movement, building an anti-fascist movement, countering fascism, fascism, postmodern fascism, Refuse Fascism, resisting fascism, Trump fascism
Trump 2024: Postmodern Fascism?
• December 7, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in critical theory, essays, social change, social theory
Tags: evidence for Trumps fascism, fascism, fascist takeover in US, MAGA fascism, postmodern fascism, rightwing populism and fascism, Trump, Trump and Hitler, Trump dictatorship, Trump fascism, Trump fascist ideology, Trumpism, Trumpist fascism
‘The First Year of the World’: May 1968
• November 21, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in critical theory, essays, history, social change, social theory
Tags: Annie Ernaux, Annie ERnaux on Paris May 68, Annie Ernaux The Years, be realists demand the impossible, be young and shut up, demand the impossible, May 1968, May 68, meaning of May 68, Odeon May 68, Paris May 1968, Paris May 68
Notes on the Israel-Gaza War
• November 6, 2023 • 2 CommentsPosted in critical theory, essays, history, One World consciousness, One World planetary civilization, social change, social theory
Tags: collecftive grief work, collective punishment, collective traumas, Gaza ceasefire, Gaza war crime against humanity, Hamas, Hamas terror attack, Israel-Gaza war, Israeli state terror, Left double standards, Likud support of Hamas, moral double standards, Netanyahu's support of Hamas, peace process from below, state terror, two state solution, war and human rights
Beggars
• September 28, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in art, poetry, social change
Tags: Abraham Willemsen, poems, poems about beggars, poems about begging, poems about the homeless, poetry
Review: Orlando Figes, The Story of Russia
• June 4, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in critical theory, essays, history, social change, social theory
Tags: Figes' Story of Russia, review of Figes, Russian history
A Ukrainian Soldier’s Questions
• April 18, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in poetry, social change, social theory
Tags: anti-imperialist poems, Brecht, poems, poems about pacifism, poems about peace, poems about war in Ukraine, poetry, war poems