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Saturday, 23 May 2015

Reassembling geopolitics—a brief synopsis of my long-term project

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For the past 8 or 9 months, I've been plotting and planning the long-term research project that, one way or another, I will pursue for t...
Wednesday, 20 May 2015

'Bruno Latour and Environmental Governance'—a brief report

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Further to my previous post , I had the great pleasure of attending a workshop on 'Bruno Latour and Environmental Governance' at th...
Friday, 8 May 2015

Austerity as the contested ground of future politics

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More and more I feel that austerity is going to form the principal political space of conflict not just for the coming years but for the com...

The quiet death of the Labour Party?

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Amidst the utterly crushing, dispiriting disappointment of this election result, I think we have to remember that this was a colossal missed...
Monday, 4 May 2015

Russell Brand, Ed Miliband and the irritating necessity/necessary irritation of populist politics

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Interesting character, that Russell . Quite the conundrum. He seems to have figured out that politics isn't about a lot of self-righte...
Friday, 1 May 2015

Diplomacy vs. engineering—in a cartoon

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From The Economist :
Sunday, 26 April 2015

'An Ecomodernist Manifesto' reviewed—Conclusion

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The fourth and final part ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) of a review of the  Ecomodernist Manifesto . When criticising something, I think it's importan...

'An Ecomodernist Manifesto' reviewed—part 3

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The third part of my review of the  Ecomodernist Manifesto . The first instalment was a bit of a knee-jerk reaction (although I can't s...

The dialogue of Beelzebub and the Hermit—Leibniz, The Philosopher's Confession

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Further to a previous post , and particularly Tim Howles' comment thereon , I thought I'd post an extract from Leibniz's 'Th...

Between common ground and middle ground; or, the unbearable lightness of being Earthbound

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Terence Blake writes : Do we need a “common ground” in order to communicate with each other effectively or enjoyably? I think we should h...
Monday, 20 April 2015

'An Ecomodernist Manifesto' reviewed—part 2

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In my  first (very hastily written) part of this review, I commented that the Ecomodernist Manifesto gets off to a very bad start, reprodu...

Speaking of determinism and possibilism... (and ecomodernism)

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Speaking of determinism and possibilism , Simon Dalby has just uploaded his paper to be presented at the AAG 2015 annual convention in Chi...

'Determinism, environment and geopolitics: an interdisciplinary conversation' — RGS-IBG 2015, Exeter

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I'm pleased to announce that my proposed session for the RGS-IBG 2015 Conference on 'Geographies of the Anthropocene' has been ...
Sunday, 19 April 2015

"My readers have now been warned"—halfway through Stengers' Thinking With Whitehead

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At the end of chapter 16 of her book on the work of Alfred North Whitehead (just slightly over halfway through the text), Isabelle Stengers ...
Thursday, 16 April 2015

"The varieties of diplomatic experience (with special attention to the problem of territory)"—for workshop on "Bruno Latour and Environmental Governance"

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I'm very excited to be taking part in a workshop next month titled "Bruno Latour and Environmental Governance." Since the 19...
Wednesday, 15 April 2015

Against (eco-)austerities, left and right

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Reading this Ecomodernist Manifesto , I am reminded of the Accelerationist Manifesto . These tracts have little to nothing in common politic...
Tuesday, 14 April 2015

'An Ecomodernist Manifesto' reviewed—part 1

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There is much in this document that is praiseworthy. However, it gets off to a bad start: To say that the Earth is a human planet becomes...

'An ecomodernist manifesto' published

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An Ecomodernist Manifesto So much wrong with it that it's difficult to know where to begin. Will take some digesting...
Friday, 10 April 2015

2015 Millennium Conference: 'Failure and Denial in World Politics' (keynote: Bruno Latour)—an opportunity for rethinking critique?

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The theme for this year's Millennium conference at the LSE has been announced: "Failure and Denial in World Politics." The ke...

New materialism is the new poststructuralism

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I think that this is true in more ways than one; however, one way is particularly important. Like poststructuralism, new materialism is a ...