[youtube width=”590″ height=”332″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0ShooriD-k[/youtube] I am in a small loft space, accessed by a ladder, carved out of a room used as printing press. The headroom is not there to stand up but perfect for sitting on the floor. By Mumbai’s standards, a generous workspace, relatively tranquil. A man on a […]
Palestine Solidarity in London London Palestine Action (LPA) is a non-hierarchical group – created a year ago to solve an issue of sustainability – which is engaged in creative and participatory Palestine solidarity actions and campaigns. In London, Palestinian solidarity groups have spontaneously coalesced in times of urgency (e.g. Operation Cast Lead in […]
Going It Alone at the End of Time When we think of evangelical Christians today, we do not often imagine them forming small groups on the estates of their wealthiest adherents, reducing their reliance on infrastructure, and fostering a radical anti-establishment politics based on communal property. But the earliest Christians […]
A few years ago, the Maldives was the poster child of climate change. Scarce in land, abundant in natural beauty, and hovering dangerously close to sea level, this archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean provided an urgent image of a sinking nation. It appealed to the popular imagination and […]
Today it often feels as though we are hopelessly mired in apocalyptic thinking, both in our social movements and in popular culture. From Hollywood blockbusters to art house dystopias, and from hip-hop lyrics to “serious” literature, images of irreversible climate chaos, interminable warfare, and total societal collapse seem increasingly inescapable. […]
“Emancipation is for us the meaning of nihilism.” – Gianni Vattimo What comes after nihilism? This question might seem impertinent given the actual state and trajectory of things. Everywhere traditional, reactionary, and localising ideologies compete, conflict and continue colonising and recolonising the discursive terrains of our political and personal lives. This […]
To anybody who has ever gone around Europe or North America giving talks or workshops on environmental politics, the scene will be familiar. At some stage a person sitting in the front row will stand up to wonder aloud what the point of the discussion is given that the world is going […]
A Tupi-Guarani tribe seeking the ‘Land-without-Evil’, a Mughal Sultan quizzing a Catalan Jesuit about the Last Judgement, a German theologian yelling ‘omnia sunt communia!’; each in some way anticipated an impending finality to the world around them, an end of times. From the Americas, through Europe, to the Indian Ocean littoral, […]
Climate change is already here, although the effects are unevenly distributed. Last winter saw a series of storms of record-breaking wind speeds, rainfall, and intensity hit the UK. California’s current drought has seen lakes disappear into parched earth. Giant craters have begun appearing in Siberia, as methane explodes out of thawing […]
“We’ve got to look after our children; we have to look after our future; and we have to grow the economy and create jobs. We can do all of that as long as we don’t fear the future; instead we seize it.” ~ Barack Obama. About twenty years ago someone wrote a speech […]