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Alexander Beiner • The Bigger Picture
Vernacular, in these contexts, no longer indexes a rigid traditionalism but a space of possibility that could be articulated to creative projects integrating vernacular forms, concrete places and landscapes, ecological restoration, and environmental and digital technologies in order to deal with serious problems of livelihood while reinvigorating c
... See moreArturo Escobar • Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
Put a different way, an accurate diagnosis of the workers in Alicia’s community would implicate the systems of injustice created during the colonial era, beginning with the exploitation and enslavement of the Takelma people and ending with a system of racial capitalism that treats migrant workers as disposable.25 A story that fails to incorporate t
... See moreRaj Patel • Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
Nous assistons à une véritable révolution copernicienne, et à un projet de société (de civilisation ?) qui envisage de concilier diverses visions du monde. Cela mène à ce qu’Arturo Escobar appelle une « politique de l’ontologie » et à l’idée radicale que le domaine politique s’étende non seulement aux non-Modernes, mais aussi aux non-humains. Cela
... See morePablo Servigne • Une autre fin du monde est possible (Anthropocène) (French Edition)
Societies that adopt innovative, predictive, and adaptive models designed around a significant, ongoing redistribution of global resources will be most likely to survive in the future.
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
The resurgence of the indigenous peoples of the Americas means many things. One is that there are usually cracks somewhere in the inevitable and the obvious. Another is that capitalism and state socialism do not define the range of possibilities, for the indigenous nations often represent significantly different ways of imagining and administrating
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Jeremy Lent • What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
The traditional or tribal shaman, I came to discern, acts as an intermediary between the human community and the larger ecological field, ensuring that there is an appropriate flow of nourishment, not just from the landscape to the human inhabitants, but from the human community back to the local earth. By his constant rituals, trances, ecstasies,
... See moreDavid Abram • The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
As stated by Glăveanu (2022) in his Manifesto, “[t]he possible re-emerges as an organizing category in our lives and our thinking not despite but because of living through the seemingly impossible and unimaginable.” The possible, transitions, temporalities, and the pluriverse appear as part of the same complex process of civilizational transition.
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