Some Thoughts on Lockdown Protests
In several countries, lockdowns and/or other pandemic-related measures have provoked protest or even riots, and in many more, policies intended to slow down the spread of Covid-19 are widely ignored.…
In several countries, lockdowns and/or other pandemic-related measures have provoked protest or even riots, and in many more, policies intended to slow down the spread of Covid-19 are widely ignored.…
In 2019 typhoon Hagibis destroyed part of the railroad that leads to Hakone, a small town near a volcanic lake in Japan that has a long history as a resort…
Presumably, you are aware that weโre in the middle of a disaster. Thatโs unpleasant โ to say the least โ but itโs also quite instructive. There is much we can…
(This is part 5 in the No Time for Utopia series.) Letโs say that you want to avoid the Mad-Maxian hell of societal collapse that climate change is making increasing…
(This is part 4 in the No Time for Utopia series.) In the previous two episodes in this series I argued that there are two possible futures for mankind and…
Most political thought is โideal theoryโ: its arguments are based on an idealized world in which important aspects of reality are abstracted away. Abstraction isnโt necessarily a bad thing โ…
โAt the center of the symbolic order is the abhorrence of death,โ writes Odile Strik in the conclusion of her short essay The Symbolic Order of Life and Manhood. The…
(This is part 5 in the โCrisis and Inertiaโ series.) In the first episode in this series I argued that societies and other social โobjectsโ (cultures, beliefs, institutions, ideas, ideologies,…
(This is part 4 in the โCrisis and Inertiaโ series.) While climate change constitutes a major if not terminal crisis for civilization (and possibly even for mankind) and certain technologies…