List of Open Access Journals/Publishers
No original content here. Just passing this along. The legendary Stuart Elden shared a post by David Murakami Wood who is keeping a list of open access content. It is my hope that he maintains the list. Such a list would be invaluable.
Memo: Ecology, Ontology and the New School
The way I seem to think of it, ecology has a lot in common with ontology. If only we had an Emmanuel Levinas of ecology out there writing book after book today. Maybe there is and I just don’t know. And yes, I have several of John Bellamy Foster’s books. And no, I would not …
From Morality-Tale Science Fiction to Fantasy-Infused Settler Colonialism
In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode, “Strange New World,” (2001) T’Pol attempts to caution Captain Archer and his crew about visiting the uninhabited planet they discover. She wants to take a number of days, just over a week, to complete scans from orbit and with probes. The lone Vulcan on the ship, T’Pol, will later …
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The Personal is Political, Even in Simple Matters, with Degrowth
A few months back I was criticized in a degrowth focused email list for discussing the need for communities to learn how to make care products, soap, shampoo, etc, which are life necessities. I was essentially told that had nothing to do with degrowth, most ardently. With degrowth the personal is indeed political. Communities need …
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Not So Open Access After All: The Land Is Our Community
I had marked my calendar for when The Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium would become open access, as the author told me would be, but it most certainly has not. Very disappointing. I even waited for some time after the initial release and searched for where the eBook …
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Note: Righteous Nation Ideology in Science Fiction and Climate Justice Today
John F. Sitton’s criticism in “Hannah Arendt’s Argument for Council Democracy” (Polity, 1987 – link) and Odd Arne Westad’s outline of the Korea’s Neo-Confucian ‘Righteous Nation’ ideology (Empire and Righteous Nation, 2021) perfectly shows what we know about the intended goals of the Abrahamic god, and the limitations of that god’s promises. This is essentially …
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Kamala Harris Denied Reparations for Forced Sterilization Victims in California
When I was in grad school at Johns Hopkins I took a class on families in the United States from a cross-cultural perspective. Kamala Harris’s name came up during our studies on California’s history of state-sanctioned forced sterilization. There is a great deal written on the subject, which you can find with little effort. California’s …
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Week 30 of 2024
“A Rigelian tiger pounces with no warning.” – Lesson one of security, Lieutenant La’an Noonien-Singh “Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach” (S1E6)
Half-truths are like bad poetry (trivial notes)
By nature people tend to see and hear and they want to see and hear. It really cannot be helped and isn’t going to be washed out of them in the space of a few social media messages. And yet, the all intellectual, justice-striving liberal left has no problem making fun of these very people …
Reposting Meaninglessfull Note on Music and God: the truth of silent observation
Just realized I haven’t listened to any music for a few days now. I do wonder if not listening to music for a while explains how I was so productive [recently]. I once went 6 – 8 years (?) not listening to music in order to get closer to God. It worked. For clarification, I …
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