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Book review

Designing for a world after climate catastrophe

While architects are often told they will change the world, a new book fails to imagine what a world after capitalism could look like

October 22, 2019October 22, 2019
Monthly links

September readings

On climate fascism, climate de-nihilism, and climate rage

October 6, 2019March 6, 2020
Book review

Degrowth should be a core part of the just transition

A review of Degrowth by Giorgos Kallis

October 3, 2019October 4, 2019
Analysis

Utopia, not futurism: Why doing the impossible is the most rational thing we can do

This 1978 speech by Murray Bookchin is strikingly relevant today

October 2, 2019October 3, 2019
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Last stand on Ménez Hom

At the top of the Ménez Hom, between the earth and the sky, history had displayed the ability to repeat itself.

September 29, 2019December 5, 2019
Reflections

Life in flames

On pain and hope in the aftermath of catastrophic fires in Bolivia’s Chiquitanía and Amazon regions

September 24, 2019October 4, 2019
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The vine underground

“The unthinkable had happened. No one plans for the end of their own world.”

September 16, 2019September 19, 2019
Essay

Destructive space-time

How war bombs and resource extractivism compress past, present, and future

September 7, 2019September 7, 2019
Monthly links

August readings

On eco-fascism(s), the burning Amazon, and worldwide uprisings

September 3, 2019March 6, 2020
Analysis

Why a hipster, vegan, green start-up service economy lifestyle cannot be sustainable

Dematerialized service economies, industrial veganism and hipsterized eco-aesthetics will only deepen the social and ecological damage wrought by capitalism

August 29, 2019August 29, 2019
Strategy

Report card on Bernie Sanders’ Green New Deal

A hot take from an eco-socialist

August 27, 2019April 30, 2020
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A toy keyboard for a Coca-Cola bottle of gas: Amadeus’ story

“Mogadishu was slowly dying, like an LED at low battery”

August 26, 2019August 26, 2019
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Micro effect

“In the space of a summer month, the outbreak had infected 309 people, with 182 dead so far”

August 19, 2019September 20, 2021
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The founding of New Crockett, Texas

Hurricane Elmer had blown all the other record storms off the map

August 5, 2019August 5, 2019
Report-back

In the land of the rising sun, climate efforts are falling behind

As the Abe government and major corporations fail to take meaningful steps to reduce emissions, Japanese citizens are working to pick up the slack

August 3, 2019August 3, 2019
Monthly links

July readings

On global land conflicts, agro-ecology, and the fall of the discipline of economics

August 1, 2019March 6, 2020
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Super glue / Superlepak

‘Fuck, he can do this every single day. Why the fuck does he have to do it? What are we going to do? There’s no point in rushing like this and trying to save him each time he gets into a dark mood’, Ivan said, looking out of the taxi window.

July 15, 2019July 17, 2019
Essay

Redwashing capital

Left tech bros are honing Marx into a capitalist tool

July 11, 2019December 4, 2021
Monthly links

June readings

On batshit jobs, utopia vs. the apocalypse, and fascist environmentalism

July 8, 2019March 6, 2020
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Metamphynus baalis

Un bebé bisonte de la especie Metamphynus baalis es capaz de distinguir los humores fertilizados de las mujeres en los restos del sueño

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019
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The right to say no

Women organizing against extractivism in southern Africa

June 28, 2019July 7, 2019
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All the water

“Everything was on autopilot; the only thing the operator had to do was push a virtual button to engage the missiles.”

June 24, 2019July 7, 2019
Field notes

Dispatch from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

What it will take to build alliances with our neighbors to the South

June 17, 2019June 17, 2019
Futures

How much will the US Way of Life © have to change?

On the future of farming, socialist science, and utopia

June 10, 2019April 30, 2020
Monthly links

May readings

On the work we don’t talk about, Fully Automated Luxury Communism, and radical alternatives

June 6, 2019March 6, 2020
Monthly links

April readings

On Extinction Rebellion, climate stories, and industrial farming

May 3, 2019March 6, 2020
Degrowth

Degrowth is utopian, and that’s a good thing

A response to Socialist Forum on degrowth by Giorgos Kallis

April 26, 2019May 1, 2019
Monthly links

February & March readings

On eco-fascism, post-extractivism, and why we should have zero lawns

April 4, 2019March 6, 2020
Book review

Is Heidegger’s philosophy anti-Semitic?

Considering the new book, Heidegger and the Jews

March 20, 2019
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After mass mobilizations, what direction for the Belgian climate movement?

A report from a participant

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019
Monthly links

January readings

On the future of farming, Venezuela, and resources for Indigenous allyship

February 2, 2019March 6, 2020
Reflections

Gilets Jaunes: A slap in the face of our vocabulary

A report from an observer

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019
Monthly links

December readings

On burn-out, eco-primitivism, and the yellow vest movement

January 9, 2019March 6, 2020
Symbiosis

A new North American network emerges from the grassroots

Announcing a congress of municipal movements

January 7, 2019January 7, 2019
Narrative

Time for the subaltern to speak

The movement against waste incineration in Can Sant Joan, Catalonia

January 5, 2019October 5, 2020
Strategies

The 8th of December, the end of the month, and the end of the world

The yellow vest movement shows us the potential of a “convergence des luttes” to demand a just ecological transition

December 27, 2018January 7, 2019
Essay

Why we need alternatives to development

An excerpt from the forthcoming book Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary

December 17, 2018December 17, 2018
Monthly links

November readings

On the Green New Deal, the great grazing debate, and the end of the world

December 7, 2018March 6, 2020
Waste

How circular is the circular economy?

Why this proposed solution is little more than a magic trick

November 27, 2018
Strategies

Why libertarian municipalism is more needed today than ever before

To fight fascism and climate change, the left must rebuild political life

November 25, 2018March 12, 2021
Report-back

Techno-fantasies and eco-realities

What role does technology play in our ecologically sustainable future, and how do we get there?

November 18, 2018November 18, 2018
Monthly links

October readings

On fascism in Brazil, a growth economist winning a prize, and responses to the IPCC report

November 4, 2018March 6, 2020
Essay

Meet catabolic capitalism: globalization’s gruesome twin

We’ll soon discover that capitalism without globalization is much, much worse.

November 1, 2018November 1, 2018
Localism

‘Dark municipalism’

The dangers of local politics

October 16, 2018
Monthly links

September readings

Degrowth… or Green New Deal?

October 4, 2018March 6, 2020
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EXTENDED DEADLINE Not afraid of the ruins #2: Local science fictions

Call for submissions for futuristic imaginaries

October 1, 2018January 14, 2019
Book review

The shock doctrine of the left

New book by Graham Jones is part map, part story, part escape manual

September 28, 2018September 28, 2018
Interview

How the world breaks

Stan and Paul Cox describe the destructive force of nature in the context of climate change

September 25, 2018September 26, 2018
Symbiosis

How radical municipalism can go beyond the local

Fighting for more affordable, accessible places to live means fighting for a less carbon-intensive future

September 20, 2018
Monthly links

August readings

On Jetsonism, deindustrialization, and finally having enough, with Anthony Galluzzo

September 3, 2018March 6, 2020
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Pulling the magical lever

A critical analysis of techno-utopian imaginaries

September 2, 2018March 31, 2019

The social ideology of the motorcar

This 1973 essay on how cars have taken over our cities remains as relevant as ever

August 11, 2018November 7, 2022
Monthly links

July readings

On human-environment relations, grassroots environmental activism, and climate depression, with Salvatore De Rosa

August 9, 2018March 6, 2020
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July

“She enjoys the way they fill the space with artificial flight; an awkward posture that makes their death seem comical.”

July 2, 2018July 2, 2018
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June readings

On decolonial re-imaginings, the escalating climate crisis, and the root causes of socio-ecological problems

July 1, 2018March 6, 2020
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Science Fiction Belgrade

Imagining different realities in the works of Enki Bilal and Aleksa Gajić

June 18, 2018July 2, 2018

The promise of radical municipalism today

Politics is about bringing people together and taking control of the spaces where we live

June 17, 2018
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Science fiction between utopia and critique

On different perspectives used in science fiction narratives, situated knowledge, and how discontent is useful

June 11, 2018June 11, 2018
Barcelona

What’s it like for a social movement to take control of a city?

For Barcelona En Comú, winning the election was just the first step

June 11, 2018
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The swell

“We were waiting to be accepted as refugees in Iceland, the only country left in the region with stable electricity from their geothermal resources, and the only place that would take UK citizens.”

June 5, 2018June 5, 2018
Monthly links

May readings

On radical municipalism, bullshit jobs, food justice, and the rights of nature

June 3, 2018March 6, 2020
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The post-Columbian exchange

How content creators continue to misuse Indigenous culture, and how they can do better

May 28, 2018February 3, 2023
Essay

Blueprint for an Earth jurisprudence economy

A speech presented at the UN General Assembly

May 25, 2018
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Endless life

A post from a future

May 21, 2018November 24, 2020
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Odetta, Odessa

“The sisters slow their rocking and let the man walk back to his car. They know what has to be done to keep him away.”

May 15, 2018February 3, 2023
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Creation

“Their only constraints now were the limitations of imagination”

May 1, 2018February 3, 2023
Monthly links

April readings

Hope and grief in the Anthropocene, global Indigenous uprisings, and resources for decolonisation

April 29, 2018March 6, 2020
Symbiosis

How to build a new world in the shell of the old

Every city has its graveyard of community groups. Without a strategic vision, local projects cannot possibly amount to a systemic alternative to capitalism.

April 28, 2018April 28, 2018
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Mother Frankenstein

Revisiting feminist science fiction history-telling

April 23, 2018April 26, 2018
Film review

In Annihilation, the revolution will not be human

If scientists need training in the uncanny, what better way than a crash course in science fiction?

April 19, 2018April 19, 2018
Symbiosis

Hierarchy, climate change and the state of nature

We can start building new tools for a democratic and ecological society once we understand hierarchy as the central problem

April 13, 2018April 23, 2018
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The Craven mode of production: Introduction

“Theirs was an undeveloped society, I thought, and their success over the past centuries has been largely accidental.”

April 9, 2018
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Fish out of water

“For those who refuse to be humble, the earth has a way of insisting upon humility.”

April 2, 2018
Symbiosis

How to navigate the disorientation of a seismic world

Taking inspiration from past revolutions to build a new framework for the future

April 1, 2018April 1, 2018
Monthly links

March readings

On women, modernity, new international movements, and ecological thought

March 31, 2018March 6, 2020
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Krishna never looks up

“Several tentacle-antennae coiled around his extended arm like Medusa’s hair.”

March 26, 2018March 25, 2018
Migrant justice

The migration crisis and the imperial mode of living

Notes toward a degrowth internationalism

March 21, 2018March 23, 2018
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Dreaming spaces

“Everywhere is filled with the dream of what could grow, slowly coming true”

March 19, 2018March 22, 2018
Climate change

Climate change mitigation and adaptation of the poor

A call for decolonial responses to climate change

March 17, 2018
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URGENT REPORT Protomunculus spp

“If an infected robionic is discovered at any stage, universal mandate requires its immediate incineration”

March 14, 2018February 3, 2023
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Avatar revisited

Gesturing at decolonization of the great epistemological divides

March 5, 2018March 7, 2018
Monthly links

February readings

On the good life, decolonizing science, economic disruption, and the future of work

March 5, 2018March 6, 2020
Barcelona

La Barceloneta’s Struggle Against (Environmental) Gentrification

March 3, 2018
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The Transition: towards a psycho-social history

“The facts revealed in the historical record are clear: most people were terrified of their neighbours.”

February 23, 2018February 23, 2018
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Encyclopedia of the mad gardener

“They feel the smells seep into their nasal channels, dioxins boiled under the pink moon.”

February 16, 2018February 16, 2018
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The collector

“When you upload the dream, I cease to be a dreamer…”

February 10, 2018February 13, 2018
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Waterways

“After the Division, Avon split from Greater Thames and declared a matriarchy”

February 2, 2018February 3, 2023
Monthly links

January’s readings

Our new sci-fi section, loneliness, communist futurism, and sidelined voices

January 27, 2018March 6, 2020
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Borne on a damaged planet

Two books that do the hard work of thinking through the Anthropocene

January 26, 2018January 28, 2018
Commons

Why the left needs Elinor Ostrom

An interview with Derek Wall, author of Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals, on the need to think beyond market and state.

January 22, 2018January 25, 2018
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Library

A climate change poem

January 19, 2018February 3, 2023
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The naked eyes

“Keith’s livelihood was sandwiched between an ocean of algorithms and a ceiling of decision-making programs.”

January 12, 2018January 12, 2018
Monthly links

New Year readings

Robots, utopias, and our new printing press

December 30, 2017December 30, 2017
Wilderness

Why stories shouldn’t always have endings

An alternate reading of St. Kilda

December 11, 2017December 20, 2017
Interview

A lifetime opposing the US military on Okinawa

Interview with Hiroshi Ashitomi, activist and elder

December 7, 2017December 11, 2017
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In India, dispossession in the name of conservation

Indigenous peoples, once protectors of their forests, are denied access to traditional land

November 30, 2017December 7, 2017
Waste

“I’m looking through the symbol for all that’s disgusting”

How to live off the rich world’s trash

October 18, 2017December 11, 2017
Island nations

I’m not a climate refugee

The story of a climate change activist from Tuvalu

October 3, 2017December 7, 2017
Reflections

There is no wilderness in Kiruna

A summer festival in Sámi and Tornedalian territory

September 22, 2017September 13, 2019

Uneven Earth summer party

Celebrating a new anthology, a new section, and announcing a revamped website

August 7, 2017September 13, 2017

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