Recently George Monbiot has been in the blogosphere for his exchange with Iam Plimer in which he joined the bastion of scientists, bloggers and journalists condemning Plimer’s recent book. Personally I found his debate with Paul Kingsnorth far more interesting,
Kingsnorth criticises Monbiot for seeking to create ‘Liberal Democracy 2.0′ arguing that
‘What we face is what [...]
Archive for the ‘cultural criticism’ Category
Thoughts on ‘Should we Seek to Save Industial Civiliasation’
Posted in Ecophilosophy, activism, climate change, cultural criticism, environmentalism, tagged activism, climate change, grassroots, Kingsnorth, mon, Monbiot on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Postmortem reveals G20 death was not a Heart Attack
Posted in activism, cultural criticism, media, tagged citizen journalism, g20, g20 death, ian tomlinson on April 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Breaking News right now on the BBC…
A new post mortem says Ian Tomlinson died from an abdominal haemorrhage not a heart attack after contact with police during the G20 protests.
The statement from the City of London Coroners Court overturns the initial assessment that the newspaper seller died of natural causes.
This stunning news now appears to [...]
Pirate Bay Trial Reaches Guilty Verdict
Posted in cultural criticism, media on April 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Breaking news today is that the Pirate Bay, the world’s largest bittorent portal has been found guilty of ‘assisting making available copyrighted content’ after the more serious charge brought against them of ‘assisting copyright infringement’ had been thrown out by the judge on the second day of the trial. While the e International Federation of [...]
G20 Death: Video and Analysis of Police Statement
Posted in activism, cultural criticism, media, tagged climate camp, g20, g20 meltdown, ian tomlinson, police brutality on April 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The guardian has now released this footage showing Police attacking Ian Tomlinson
Their behaviour here, attacking a man with his back turned, and hands in his pockets is entirely in keeping with the rest of their violent and unprovoked behaviour on 1st April 2009.
The Lib Dems justice spokesperson David Howarth has come [...]
Analysing Media Coverage of the Wildcat Strikes
Posted in activism, cultural criticism, media, media activism, tagged indymedia, bbc, strikes, wildcat, jobs, workers, Lindsey Oil Refinery on February 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
While the mainstream media has mainly presented the current wildcat strikes in the UK as a nationalist phenomena, concentrating on the slogan ‘British jobs for British workers,’ they have seemed to largely ignore what the workers themselves have been saying.
For example one of the Lindsey Oil Strike refinery unofficial elected strike committee leaders wrote on [...]
Complexity and Social Movements: Multitudes at the edge of Chaos – Graeme Chesters and Ian Welsh
Posted in activism, book review, cultural criticism, environmentalism, media activism, tagged ecology, Chesters, Welsh, complexity, globalization, WTO, protest, politics, media on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This book, published by Routledge in 2006, is a recent attempt at a sociological analysis of the alternative globalization movement (AGM) using a theoretical framework based on an almagamation of the works of Deleuze and Guattari, Hardt and Negri and Gregory Bateson, with complexity theory via D&G deployed to provide qualitative analysis of events such [...]
The Three Ecologies – Felix Guattari
Posted in Ecophilosophy, activism, book review, climate change, cultural criticism, environmentalism, media activism, tagged activism, book review, climate change, ecology, guattari, philosophy on October 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Three Ecologies is one of the final works published by Felix Guattari (1930-1992), a French philosopher, political militant and institutional psychoanalyst. While Guattari is perhaps best known for his co-authored projects with Gilles Deleuze; Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus and What is Philosophy; The Three Ecologies provides an excellent insight into Guattari’s stance on politics, [...]
HOPE: Hummer Owners Prepared for Emergencies
Posted in climate change, cultural criticism, tagged climate change, environment, greenwash, hummer on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wow… Naomi Klein quite accurately described this as ‘a bit like the Marlboro man doing grief counselling in a cancer ward”
Without a doubt one of the most laughable and simultaneously frightening pieces of greenwash I’ve seen in quite a while.
Capitalism, Consumption, and Sustainability
Posted in Ecophilosophy, activism, climate change, cultural criticism, tagged capitalism, consumption, ecology, resource depletion, sustainability on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We are constantly being reminded by environmentalists that we only have one planet on which to live, a single set of resources which are being depleted at an ever increasing rate…
But our biosphere is not a static pool of resources. The world is constantly changing. All around us life is growing, evolving, renewing itself, becoming [...]
Empire – Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Posted in activism, book review, cultural criticism, tagged activism, book review, communism, Empire, Hardt, multitude, Negri, postmodernism on July 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Hardt and Negri’s much lauded text has been a major talking point amongst radical left wing theorists and activists since its release in 2000, being described by some as a Capital for the 21st century, taking its dual heritage from Karl Marx and the radical materialist poststructuralism of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
The departure point [...]
