The following quotes come from John Steinbeck’s The Log from the Sea of Cortez (co-written, supposedly, with Ed Ricketts, but he is not credited on my edition): “… the Mexican sierra has ‘XVII-15-IX’ spines in the dorsal fin. These can easily be counted. But if the sierra strikes hard on the line so that our [...]
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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I just came across this article by David Graeber titled “A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse.” Since the ideas expressed in the article have much in common with the project of Struggle Forever, I thought I would share some key excerpts and add a few thoughts of my own. First of all, Graeber [...]
Today I’m reading the chapter from Helmreich’s Alien Ocean on aquatic invasive species (AIS) in Hawaii. In the chapter, he discusses the politically charged climate in which the issue of invasive species has become entangled in Hawaii. At stake is the definition of “native” versus “alien” in a place where to be “native” carries a [...]
I situate myself squarely within what has been characterized by some as an ontological turn in anthropology (though, it’s difficult to say if it deserves the moniker “turn” since few have actually taken it up as of yet). For the past few decades, anthropologists (and philosophers and sociologists, and others) have concerned themselves primarily with [...]
An interesting video to encounter fresh back from a 2-day camping trip in the mountains of West Virginia! Many of you have probably seen this before – I think I may have, but don’t recall where or when. I agree in some sense with his analysis of ecology as ideology – that in order to [...]
