I find it convincing that our current ways of thinking climate change fail to grasp its hugeness. Here's one way: not only will the use of fossil fuels have to rapidly decrease, but economies must also adapt to large increases in clean energy. It may sound simple, but the linked essay provides lots of details on what will aid or impede the process.
Dangerously close to this.
This article intro by Robin James is very humbling, given that political leadership is definitely a frame that's guided my thinking.
Not sure I totally get this but I do think it's helpful to map out a more precise definition of harm.
Haven't read No Logo, but from what this essay summarizes, the terrain definitely seems to have shifted.
Trump is not an alternative to neoliberalism, but yet another living embodiment of it.
Great, great, great critique of xenofeminism; but, more importantly in my view, accelerationism too. I'm guilty of ignoring the implications for laborers that accelerationism also glosses over, and I think this is a good faith effort to take what's good about xenofeminism and build something new from it. Very exciting stuff.
Nick Pinkerton on mega-movies.
This sounds very unpleasant and one more reason I'm glad I never seriously considered teaching.
Time will tell if the Labour Party can win back disillusioned voters in the north.
I anticipate this likely recession to shape much of my adult life.
Definitely feeling bad about knowing eating meat is bad but doing it anyway.
This critique goes over my head a bit, but what I understand is convincing and disappoints me, because I liked the concept of central planning based on what infrastructure already exists.
This says so many important things, from refusing to treat strangers like reactionary idiots to avoiding the mini-movement of irony-soaked leftism.
