Archive for the 'social theory' Category
The Chronicle of Turbulent Times: 2023
• February 10, 2024 • Leave a CommentPosted in anthropocene, climate change, climate emergency, social ecology, social theory
Tags: 2023 in review, AI dangers, AI pause in development, AMOC, Antarctic melt, climate change, climate emergency, flame age, green industrialisation, Greenland melt, heat records, heat records 2023, inequality and climate change, Israel Hamas war, lunar industrialisation, megafires, megamelt, nuclear weapons testing, Pope on climate, rich overconsumption, smartphone addiction, smartphones and mental health, social media loneliness, synthetic biology, toxic subsidies
The Chronicle of Turbulent Times: 2022
• February 9, 2024 • Leave a CommentPosted in anthropocene, climate change, climate emergency, covid-19, critical theory, history, social theory
Tags: 2022 heatwaves, 2022 in review, 8 billion 2022, Amazon loss, banned nanomaterials, global inflation 2022, global nuclear stockpiles, land degradation globally, microplastic pollution, Pakistan floods, pollution sacrifice zones, Putin's invasion, Putin's war of aggression, Ukraine War 2022
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
And Now This
• September 6, 2023 • 2 CommentsPosted in critical theory, poetry, social theory
Tags: pantoums, pantuns, poems, poetry, satirical poems
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
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