Tag: degrowth
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The Good and the Bad News about Academic Research, Communities, and Degrowth Ethics
While this article by Rachel Handforth is not strictly on this subject, there are some very helpful insights and though this is mostly about PhDs and how people think of...
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Note on a Completed Project: Science Fiction and Charles W. Mills’s Critique of “Ideal Theory” (Parts I-III)
I recently completed a three-part series over at scifi.global on Charles W. Mills’s Critique of “Ideal Theory”. It is completely based on a single paper that he wrote. I have...
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Note: The Separation of Spirituality and Civility (We are on our own)
The damage people do the ecosystem cannot be corrected with prayer. It does not matter what god one prays to. It does not matter how important the cause that led...
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Memo: “Degrowth needs more strategic planning.” – Dr. Federico Savini
From “Degrowth, legitimacy, and the foundational economy,” a Response to Yvonne Rydin common published in Planning Theory (2024) If we accept the scientific evidence that decoupling is not occurring at...
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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...
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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...
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Flamm et al. on De-orbiting and the Environment and Arnaud on Degrowth and Low Earth Orbit
I recently read Flamm et al.’s paper, “Space sustainability through atmosphere pollution? De-orbiting atmosphere-blindness and planetary environmental justice” (The Anthropocene Review, 2024). There are some important points worth highlighting. I...
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A Note: Lose Your Career Building Skills as a Practice of Degrowth
Degrowth has blossomed into a lively topic. Depending on where you are hearing about it, you may or may not be influenced in positive ways. Well, this post is not...
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Memo: Rethinking Degrowth as Resistance to Capitalism
I have had some time to rethink what Koch & Elmore wrote about Baudrillard’s elaboration on Marxist ideas and the pervasiveness of capitalism. I have two or three Baudrillard texts,...
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Degrowth as Resistance, Despite Baudrillard’s Networking of Fetishism
Koch & Elmore (2006) argue that contrary to popular opinion Baudrillard’s later work did not abandon Marxist theory. He elaborated on it. Baudrillard expanded on the “macro-molecular code” of Marxist...