Siegel, F. 1980. The Agony of Christopher Lasch. Reviews in American History, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 285-295. URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2701369 Christopher Lasch wrote one of the books that made me convinced Everything Was Bad - "The Culture of Narcissism". I haven't read it in 30 years, but keep meaning to get around to a re-read. Join... Continue Reading →
Letter in Private Eye about CCS…
They edited it down very lightly, just missing the final line "I would get out more, but the weather is so unpredictable at the moment, for reasons that elude me."
“Civil society” is not synonym for unicorns and rainbows – [Looting the Ivory Tower 01/100]
Berman, S. 1997. Civil Society and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic. World Politics , Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 401-429. The key point in this brilliant article is that loose talk about "civil society" as a Good Thing that will Help Democracy Thrive is simply not good enough. Put down that hypodermic full of de... Continue Reading →
Two videos – “Anxiety Management Rituals” and “Marches as a Zombie Repertoire”
I am making short (under 2 min 20 seconds) videos. For the shiggles. Here are two, hopefully self-explanatory. Anxiety Management Rituals https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1640357505271488513 Marches as a Zombie Repertoire https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1640608156458835969
Looting the Ivory Tower – “Biographical Availability”
https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1636318881311588353 From here - McAdam, D. (1986) “Recruitment to High-Risk Activism: The Case of Freedom Summer.” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 92, No. 1, pp. 64-90
Looting the Ivory Tower: Trasformismo, #Gramsci #Transitions
Made a new short video for my "Looting the Ivory Tower" series (important academic articles or concepts translated into plain English) https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1635273839214211072 What do people think (of the concept, of the video)? Suggestions for improvements to future videos, and concepts that could be rendered in 2 mins and 19 seconds (i.e. within the Twitter limit).
Looting the Ivory Tower: “Managing transition risk”, oil companies and #climate
Another day, another top notch academic article, turned into a glib 2 min 20 second video... "Managing transition risk: Toward an interdisciplinary understanding of strategies in the oil industry" [aka Why existing academic concepts fall short of capturing the messy complexity of #EnergyTransition and what needs to be done] Here's the video https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1634577726945329154 This is... Continue Reading →
Looting the Ivory Tower: “The wicked trinity of late capitalism”
I have made a short (2mins 19 seconds) film as part of my "Looting the Ivory Tower" series. It's on a new paper in Geoforum - "The ‘wicked trinity’ of late capitalism: Governing in an era of stagnation, surplus humanity, and environmental breakdown" by @IliasAlami @JackCopley6 @moraitisalexis Twitter was playing silly buggers with uploading, so... Continue Reading →
Looting the Ivory Tower: on the plausibility of keeping warming to 1.5 degrees
"The plausibility of a 1.5°C limit to global warming Social drivers and physical processes" https://youtu.be/YRiE-ZQtYpk It's a report by some folks in Hamburg. You can read the report here https://cliccs.uni-hamburg.de/about-cliccs/news/2023-news/2023-01-31-pm-climate-futures-outlook.html… We're just not acting fast enough. We've got one foot lightly (VERY) lightly on the brake, and a lead foot on the gas (aka accelerator).... Continue Reading →
Looting the Ivory Tower: “Intersectionality & #Climate Justice: A call for synergy in climate change scholarship.”
I have a template now, and a rhythm that works for me. Here's the latest. Tell me what you think, how they could be improved (highlighting words in the quotes when I am reading aloud would be one thing. Leaving out some of the 'comic' asides would be another. What else? https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1626294996511997952
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