Welcome to the Anthropocene: Disaster Time
As I’ve discussed in an earlier post, the Anthropocene is a concept coined a little over a decade ago by scientists to describe the massive scale of changes happening to the Earth’s biosphere...
political analysis
It’s a Mad, Mad World!
“I do not believe that this legislation changes the scientific standards that are taught in our schools or the curriculum that is used by our teachers.” –TN Governor Bill Haslam on the...
A Contagion of Fear and An Education in Terrorism
“A contagion of fear has infected campus, and the successive, endless nature of bomb threat-related notifications and evacuations have amplified the hysteria, with the new security measures only lending credence to the fears…students...
The Visual Politics of HIV and AIDS – 1980 to 2012
[Dec 2018 Update – Some broken video links fixed, and note about purged CDC image…] The Politics of AIDS and HIV 1981 is often pointed to as the start of public awareness about...
Fair Use and Social Justice – Grace Lee Boggs and MLK Jr. -v- EMI
So I ran into one of those ironies of ironies this evening while working on a project. I pose this to my readers as a question: what would you do? So here’s...
Genetic Codes, Cyborg Selves and the Future
“Human beings, like any other component or subsystem, must be localized in a system of architecture whose basic modes of operation are probabilistic, statistical. No objects, space, or bodies are sacred in themselves;...
