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Taking Power
Where will the energy that runs modern societies come from? It is not an exaggeration to say that the fate of this planet hangs on the answer to this question. The news is mixed on this front. Here in...
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Manufactured Landscapes
The European tradition of landscape painting created idealized representations of an arcadian world populated by shepherds and nymphs. The evenly distributed planes of sloping land in paintings by...
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Accumulation by Dispossession
Earlier this week, David Harvey appeared on a panel about contemporary Land Grabs along with activists Somnath Mukherjee, Smita Narula, Kathy LeMons Walker. I unfortunately was not able to attend. In...
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The Right to Heal
Last night I attended an event at the Brecht Forum to commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The event featured Yanar Mohammed, President of the Organization of Women’s...
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Profiting from Climate Insecurity
These days, virtually everyone knows that the world we take for granted is becoming more precarious as a result of climate change. The key question is what we do as a result of this knowledge. The...
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Uneven Geographies
In his important book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, Rob Nixon discusses the efforts of writer-activists to document what he describes as forms of “attritional violence whose...
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What We Communists Want
Following on my last post concerning the danger of reproducing the dismal logic of contemporary capitalism in representations of uneven development, this morning I began thinking about the question of...
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What’s Wrong with Global Climate Negotiations?
Climate negotiations have long been deadlocked. I remember the anger and frustration when the-recently-inaugurated President Obama descended on the COP15 talks in Copenhagen and pretty much torpedoed...
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Poisoning Paradise
Yesterday I reblogged a great piece on organizing against GMO agriculture in Hawaii. My friend Dean Saranillio just sent me a link to an interview with Vandana Shiva that fills out more of the context...
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Always at War
Dossier on Perpetual War, edited by Patricia Clough and Sandra Trappen, just published on the Social Text website. The dossier reminds us that the War on Terror has normalized a state of perpetual war,...
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Revolutionary Grace
What might revolutionary grace look like? How can we snatch radical egalitarianism from the jaws of authoritarianism? In what visions of the past can we find the resources to make a just future? These...
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20th Anniversary of Zapatista Uprising
This new year brings a date that’s worth remembering: the 20th anniversary of the Zapatista Uprising. This struggle to resist NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) and neo-liberalism helped...
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Too little, too late
The chief executive of Shell is scheduled to visit Nigeria, according to a recent article, to win support for clean-up efforts in the Niger Delta. This after a Unep report called for $1 billion to...
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Inter-Imperial Rivalry and Intensified Resource Exploitation
The recent Sino-Russian gas deal needs to be seen as part of a broader shift in global power relations. From a uni-polar world dominated after the end of the Cold War exclusively by the United States,...
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The Extermination of Charismatic Megafauna
The world’s last charismatic megafauna are being exterminated. This slaughter is taking place with particular gory ferocity in Sub-Saharan Africa, for reasons linked to the continent’s enduring poverty...
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