by administrator | Dec 19, 2022 | Blog
I’ll be brief. It’s a big week. Chanukkah, Winter Solstice, Christmas. A World Cup final for the ages, The January 6th committee wrapup (and criminal referrals?). A “sweeping [international] deal to protect nature.” And our monthly Living...
by administrator | Dec 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
POLY GOT A CRACKUP? Call it what you will, it’s the all too familiar water we’re swimming in—and will be swimming in for some time to come. Familiar enough that it now has a name: Polycrisis. Or Polycrises. Permacrisis. Messes of messes. Wicked problems....
by administrator | Nov 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
COP27 There’s lots being written and spoken about the very mixed bag that was COP27. On one hand, the “loss and damage” agreement, pledging to provide funding to climate-vulnerable countries. On the other hand, weasel words about fossil fuels, and...
by administrator | Nov 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
REFLECTIONS The “panic now, it’s all melting down” tribe and “lol nothing’s happening, chill” tribes are in a mutual gaslighting equilibrium. Me, I’m above these simplistic either/or things, I’m in a complex superposition of chilling and panicking. — Venkatesh Rao...
by administrator | Oct 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
“WE ARE EARTHLINGS, NOT HUMANS” We lost an intellectual, creative, and moral giant this week, when Bruno Latour, philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist, died at 75. He was author of We Have Never Been Modern (which I have not yet read), Down to Earth:...
