So it seems that after a flurry of activity for the climate swoop last week where climate activists met at six strategic locations before converging on Blackheath to set up this year’s Climate Camp the mainstream media have largely lost interest in events.
On the Guardian website today we have bibi van der Zee claiming that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘activism’
Climate Camp: Mainstream Media Yearn for Riot Porn
Posted in activism, climate change, media, tagged activism, blackheath, climate camp, climatecamp, grassroots, guardian, london, media, protest on August 31, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Thoughts on ‘Should we Seek to Save Industial Civiliasation’
Posted in Ecophilosophy, activism, climate change, cultural criticism, environmentalism, tagged climate change, activism, Monbiot, mon, Kingsnorth, grassroots 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 is what [...]
Operation Bentham
Posted in activism, climate change, tagged activism, Bentham, climate, climate camp, climatecamp, police on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having mounted a public relations campaign in an attampt to restore the image of the met after the G20 debacle, the police have decided to codename their operation for this year’s Climate Camp Operation Bentham.
The operation’s moniker is a reference to the English social theorist and philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Bentham’s most frequently used concept is [...]
G20 coverage
Posted in activism, media activism, tagged activism, climate camp, direct action, g20, indymedia, london, protest on March 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For coverage of tomorrow and Thursday’s G20 protests acrosss london be sure to check out London Indymedia and UK Indymedia who will be providing live updates on the day’s actions.
As the Police have been talking up the ’summer of rage’ before any kind of protest/demonstrations have occured it seems likely that there is likely to [...]
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, [...]
Why I Won’t be Saving the World…
Posted in Ecophilosophy, activism, climate change, 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 a [...]
The Shock Doctrine – Naomi Klein
Posted in activism, book review, tagged activism, book review, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, shock doctrine on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Naomi Klein’s latest book features a review on the back which says ‘If you only read one non-ficition book this year, make it this one.’ While I’m normally suspicious of such superlative praise, this book may well justify it.
First things first. This is not a chirpy or upbeat book. The first [...]
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 [...]
Bring on the Apocalypse – George Monbiot
Posted in activism, book review, tagged activism, book review, Monbiot on June 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The latest offering from one of Britain’s best known social and environmental activists is a compilation of over 50 of his newspaper articles written over the last few years. As such, for avid Monbiot fans there isn’t really any new material here, however for those seeking an easy to read introduction which demonstrates the breadth [...]
Violence – Slavoj Zizek
Posted in activism, book review, tagged activism, book review, violence, Zizek on June 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Slovenian cultural theorist Slavoj Zizek’s latest offering is a look at the way in which western societies understand, and importantly misunderstand violence.
Zizek’s central thesis is that the liberal conception of violence is limited to subjective forms of violence, violence which is performed by a clearly identifiable human agent. Zizek claims that what is required to [...]
