Just a quick reminder this afternoon that no one has ever invaded a country or taken their leader hostage to steal their solar panels. Added bonus: a solar spill? Just a sunny day.

Books of the quarter-century in ecocultural theory A messy 25 years into this century is a good time to take stock: What books bring us the best insights on our intertwined ecological and cultural challenges?

The eleven books you should read to be up on the conjoined ecological and cultural challenges of coming years... terrestrialism.substack.com/p/books-of-t...

Venezuela & the new (old) world order Taking over Venezuela is not about drugs or democracy, but about four other things. And it marks a "new world order" that is just the final flaring up of a monstrously metastasized old one.

Taking over Venezuela is not about drugs or democracy, but about four other things. And it marks a "new world order" that is just the final flaring up of a monstrously metastasized old one.
terrestrialism.substack.com/p/venezuela-...

For an eco-realist approach to AI The arrival of Artificial Intelligence brings us two golden opportunities. Only one of them is technological. Both of them are deeply philosophical.

A manifesto-in-progress that argues for a Pause on AI accompanied by a Push for the energy infrastructure that might make AI affordable. It currently isn't. terrestrialism.substack.com/p/for-an-eco...

Introducing Terrestri(e)alism Terrestrial Realism for an Earthbound Future

Introducing Terrestri(e)alism
open.substack.com/pub/terrestr...

Music for Air Raids - Shchekavytsia, by Adrian Ivakhiv track by Adrian Ivakhiv

From the forthcoming album "Disambient 1: Music for Air Raids," inspired by Ukrainian resistance to Russian air terror. adrianivakhiv.bandcamp.com/track/music-...

Hybrid Webinar Series: “Radical Hope in Feverish Times” A series of webinars exploring strategies for cultivating possibility in defiance of brutalism Sponsored by the SFU Institute for the Humanitie...

Join us tomorrow (12 noon Pacific time, UTC/GMT-7:00) for a webinar on Indigenous Survivance & Resurgence, Traditional Knowledge, & the Arts, with Jeff Corntassel, Cease Wyss, and Eglée Zent
events.sfu.ca/event/45175-...

Book cover of The New Lives of Images: Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene Imaginaries in More-than-Human Worlds by Adrian J. Ivakhiv

The New Lives of Images is out! In this ambitious new work, eco-philosopher and cultural theorist Adrian Ivakhiv presents an incisive new way of thinking about images and imagination. #ReadUP

www.sup.org/books/media-studies/new-...

An election in a polluted media environment - Transcript | CBC Radio Front Burner Transcript for March 24, 2025

The #infowar on #Canada is ramping up. #Canadians need to urgently update their #medialiteracy in time for their April 28 #federal_election. Here's one way to do that. www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...

Trump’s border frenzy: a tale of two elephants As a Canadian who has long valued this country’s differences from the United States, I’m as concerned as anyone about the Trump administration’s threats of annexation toward Canad…

A longer-term reply to Trump's tariffs... beyond national sovereignty to ecological sovereignty... blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/202...

End of the Interregnum, or just the beginning of its end? It’s looking increasingly likely that the last 35 years or so will come to be seen as an Interregnum between two world orders: the Cold War order, which emerged from the ashes of World War Two, and…

Where we are now, and where we should be heading instead... blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/202...

„It’s wild that the American VP is criticizing European countries for stifling freedom of speech.

In the Press Freedom Index, the US ranks 55th, while Sweden is 3rd and Germany 10th.

Russia, meanwhile, sits at 162.“

Pekka Kallioniemi

Join us one week from today @westernu.bsky.social @westernuhistory.bsky.social @westernpolsci, @waschukcan.bsky.social @matthewlebo.bsky.social @AdamHarmes, & yours truly

We are all dispensable: For a revolution of the means of information There’s a clear lesson for us in the mass firings of federal employees, carried out as part of an administrative coup led by the world’s wealthiest tech oligarch, in the country that had up till re…

There’s a lesson in the mass firings of federal employees, carried out as part of an administrative coup by the world’s wealthiest tech oligarch, in the country that until recently was seen as the paragon of stability and prosperity. That lesson is that we are all dispensable now. shorturl.at/dXUk5

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

Their aim is nothing short of a new Dark Ages. Anti-science, anti-education, anti-democracy, in favor of needless human suffering.
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

It's not just weather. Work with foreign nationals is a BIG part of what NOAA does - from climate negotiations (UNFCC, IPCC, Montreal Protocol), ocean (biodiversity conservation, fisheries, species protections), to space (satellites, space launches, etc.).

Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

this is just the dumbest possible way for an empire to collapse

Here are the words putting science in the crosshairs of Trump’s orders National Science Foundation staff have been combing through thousands of active science research projects, alongside a list of keywords, to determine if they include activities that violate Trump’s ex...

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Moving fast and breaking things? Critical resources With its flurry of perplexing and often contradictory initiatives and statements, Donald Trump’s second presidency is leaving traditional media outlets, along with their tired viewers, overwhelmed …

The beginnings of a resource guide for what's happening in the US... "Now is not a time for meekly tut-tutting our disapproval -- or for shouting “coup!” and “fascism!” without the necessary analysis. What we do need is Aikido- or Jujitsu-style redirections of their energy."
shorturl.at/PskYh

And for what?

February 1, 2025 Throughout now-president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, it was clear that his support was coming from three very different factions whose only shared ideology was a determination to destroy the federal...

If you have been unable to keep up with Trump's destruction of democracy and the US government in the last two weeks, here is a summary (with citations) by @hcrichardson.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces Canada's response to U.S. tariffs – February 1, 2025 YouTube video by cpac

Canada’s response to U.S. tariffs. Justin Trudeau's best speech.

Canada will place 25% tariffs on $155 billion in US imports in retaliation for Trump tariffs. That is an addition to a nationwide boycott on all US products across Canada. #cdnpoli #tariffwar

Just sayin’

wow...

"the Disinformation Machine...facilitates the abuse of power by distracting attention away from actual political conspiracies, the ongoing abuses and machinations of corrupt, powerful people..." @brianklaas.bsky.social on what Musk has wrought. Terrifying. 1/2

But Caldwell's argument is that democracy is succeeding, and that the Trumps & Le Pens of the world are perfect examples of that. As a Claremont Review conservative, he's probably happy about that, and is writing these NYTimes pieces to troll its left-liberal readership.

How to Win an Information War with Peter Pomerantsev - Dave Troy Presents In this special bonus episode, Dave interviews author Peter Pomerantsev about his new book "How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler." The book explores the work of Sefton ...

@davetroy.com interviews author Peter Pomerantsev about his new book "How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler." The book explores the work of Sefton Delmer, a journalist who developed unique ways to destabilize Hitler's propaganda programming.