From Cyberpunk to Solarpunk: Technics and the Cities of the Future

Recently, I came across a paper by the great historian, and philosopher of technology, Lewis Mumford, titled ‘Authoritarian and Democratic Continue reading →

Peter Sloterdijk: Living in the Mountains of Imperial Foam

Peter Sloterdijk was unfortunate in writing about the existential problem of luxury in modern social life, especially given the Eurozone Continue reading →

Foams and Networks: Sloterdijk and Latour’s Atmospheric Philosophies

This is Sloterdijk’s explicitness: You are on life support, it’s fragile, it’s technical, it’s public, it’s political, it could break Continue reading →

A Future on Fire: Climate Change and Hauntology

The spectre of climate crisis stalks our present, finding ways to mash and mangle our now into one that is Continue reading →

Don’t Touch Anything: Biodiversity Interventionism

The “natural world” is complex. We are just beginning to understand the interconnections of living and non-living things. Environmental ecosystems Continue reading →

Apocalypse Now? What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Believe

Many of Stephen Hawking’s final written words presage doom. Clearly no amount of knowledge can resist a looming apocalypse. “We Continue reading →

How Green Party Policy Would Resuscitate the BBC

True democracy can only be achieved through a properly informed public. This is the maxim on which the Green Party Continue reading →

What the Big Environmental Groups Don’t Want You to Know

I used to be a fan of Greenpeace. I’ve donated to them in the past and have always assumed they Continue reading →