Category: Climate
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Future of (a Climate) Denial
Last Thursday I was honoured to be asked to join a panel celebrating the publication of my great friend Professor Tad Delay’s book on psychoanalysis and the climate emergency, Future of Denial: This was part of the Historical Materialism conference at SOAS, and it was great to speak alongside Richard Seymour, whose own response to…
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On Napoleons and Caesars, and Hope beyond the Bag of Wind
It’s not quite been a week since the election in the US. Some I know wanted to stay up to see the result in; I had a suspicion that a few more hours of ignorance-in-bliss might be best. There was no joy in being right. Neither, I have to admit, was I ever particularly excited…
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Turning down the heat
As the temperature rises, how do we step down from hotheaded aggression? I’ve been thinking about the time I spent in the mountains at the end of July, and the connected problems we are experiencing with rising temperatures. You may have seen the photograph that did the rounds a couple of weeks ago where a…
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Mutiny against Mutiny – overcoming a Supreme (in)Justice in an atomised world
Are you worried yet? I am. Genuinely. But what to do? When to act? The past few days have been some of the most politically concerning since I can’t remember. The RN making major gains in voter share in France. The way that the Supreme Court in the US ruled on the powers of Federal…
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Future of Denial: to change the climate, we must first change
‘If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself’ George Orwell, 1984 I’ve been wanting to write a review of Tad Delay’s new book Future of Denial – out now with Verso – for a while now. I was kindly sent a proof copy which I read over a couple…
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S-Town vs S-World: Hot Air and the Climate Change Problem (No Spoilers)
Note: no spoilers Being something of a fan of the This American Life and Serial podcasts, I caught word that S-Town was coming out last week, and found myself pretty much binging the 7 episodes on my walks to and from work. Expecting something much more Serialesque, at one point I began to wonder when…