Theorizing the Anthropocene – part 1
The following thoughts are part of a longer response I have been writing in response to comments on my PhD dissertation proposal on the Anthropocene, Monsters in the Greenhouse, which you can find...
political analysis
2016: Deconstructing Dinesh D’Souza’s Right Wing Fantasies
[Updated 9/25/12 with extended fact checking of film at end of post] This post offers a media analysis and political commentary on Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie 2016: Obama’s America. I had assigned both...
Monsters in the Greenhouse: Risk, faith and science in the Anthropocene
In short, this project is looking at the concept of the Anthropocene, a scientific proposal to designate a new geologic epoch covering the past ~250 yrs that would mark the increasing impacts of...
“You Didn’t Build That” – Perpetuating the Myth of American Exceptionalism
Andrew Cline had a recent article in The Atlantic where he attacks Obama for a recent campaign speech where Obama made the following remark: “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build...
Cyborgs Like Us
It appears we’re one more step closer to the long-held human dream–or nightmare–depending on your take, to more human-like robots, with the announcement by an Italian team of scientists at the University...
The Carbon Cowboy or Why Frontier Justice Requires Machetes and Spears
It’s not often that I find myself making such a suggestion, but the would would be a better place if Australian real estate developer and moral disease David Nilsson suddenly “disappeared” while...
