Following up on my previous two posts (here and here) on buddhism and the recent visit of the Dalai Lama, I want to elaborate on the position I see for Buddhism in the struggle for a better world. What is Buddhism? It’s not a religion like any other. In those sects where deities are acknowledged, [...]
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On the train ride home from Connecticut this weekend, I was finally able to put some time in and finish reading Isabelle Stenger’s Capitalist Sorcery: Breaking the Spell. I was going to write a whole synopsis of the book with commentary, but Adam Robbert has posted a link to a review that does that work [...]
The concept of self-organization has become a buzzword and a driving principle in the social and natural sciences as well as in management and politics. It’s been put to good use in all of these areas (i.e. look to Levi Bryant’s onticology) – I’ve even waxed romatic about it. I’m concerned, though, about an uncritical [...]
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
This is the best definition of political ecology I’ve encountered. From Isabelle Stengers: To have made political questions proliferate by tearing them away from the fields of expertise in which they were confined is the major contribution of political ecology. Endangered species, climate change, pollution, the sharing of water resources, the energy crisis, desertification, all [...]
An extended quote from Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ) by Hakim Bey that reminds me very much of Isabelle Stengers: The universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity – those who refuse out of dull anguish, those who hesitate, lose their chance at divinity – [...]
