Generally I quite like Adam Curtis’s documentaries. I admire the fact that at a time where expository documentaries presenting wide scale socio-cultural arguments are hugely out of fashion he makes films which probe big issues around power, politics and history. I hugely enjoy the aesthetic of his work, the heavy usage of archival material to [...]
Archive for the ‘Ecophilosophy’ Category
The Use and Abuse of Cybernetic Concepts: Where Part Two of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace Went Wrong
Posted in cultural criticism, Ecophilosophy, tagged adam curtis, bbc, cybernetics, documentary, machines of loving grace, orange revolution, systems theory on June 1, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Thoughts on ‘Should we Seek to Save Industial Civiliasation’
Posted in activism, climate change, cultural criticism, Ecophilosophy, environmentalism, tagged activism, climate change, grassroots, Kingsnorth, mon, Monbiot on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Mark Lynas, Nuclear Power, and the Age of Stupid
Posted in activism, climate change, Ecophilosophy, environmentalism on March 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last night I went to see the Age of Stupid at the Watershed followed by a brief talk by author and activist Mark Lynas. During the Q+A session I asked Mark to clarify why he has recently come out in support of nuclear power on his blog in a piece entitled Why Greens must Learn [...]
The Three Ecologies – Felix Guattari
Posted in activism, book review, climate change, cultural criticism, Ecophilosophy, environmentalism, media activism, tagged activism, book review, climate change, ecology, guattari, philosophy on October 7, 2008 | 19 Comments »
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, [...]
Capitalism, Consumption, and Sustainability
Posted in activism, climate change, cultural criticism, Ecophilosophy, 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, [...]
Realism, Beliefs and Change
Posted in activism, climate change, Ecophilosophy, tagged beliefs, climate change, realism on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a response to some heated debate currently occurring on Bristol Indymedia… http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/688696 Some thoughts on the Proff’s ‘Climate change is happening. We, and the generations before us, have caused it. It should not matter whether we believe it or not.”‘ And Art’s reply ‘Just read that last sentence again – “It should not [...]
Why I Won’t be Saving the World…
Posted in activism, climate change, Ecophilosophy, tagged activism, climate change on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Much of the rhetoric surrounding Anthropogenic Climate Change has thus far rested on the notion that human pollution is destroying the world, and that consequently we need to take action in order to save the world… Put simply this isn’t true. The planet that we live on is far too big, and far too flexible [...]
Bateson – Steps to An Ecology of Mind
Posted in Ecophilosophy, tagged bateson, ecology, philosophy on May 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Today the purposes of consciousness are implemented by more and more effective machinery, transportation systems, airplanes, weaponry, medicine, pesticides and so forth. Conscious purpose is now empowered to upset the balances of the body, of society, and of the biological world around us. A pathology – a loss of balance – is threatened. On the [...]
