Getting to know Escher

Some thoughts on how the perfectionistic art of a delicate craftsman, can speak to the need for expression, imagination and transformation, and how these can be useful for a political ecologist. A course on social movements and activism organised for Entitle fellows brought me to Rome the same days that the Chiostro del Bramante was … Continue reading Getting to know Escher

Repensando las raíces y trayectorias de la Ecología Política

de Tom Perreault* Esta charla es un intento de dar sentido a unos dilemas o contradicciones inherentes en la ecología política. Quiero empezar por proponer que entendamos la ecología política como una aporía.  Una "aporía" es una paradoja de lógica insuperable. Es un término utilizado por el geógrafo norteamericano Joel Wainwright para describir el desarrollo socio-económico; … Continue reading Repensando las raíces y trayectorias de la Ecología Política

Losing our Fear! Facing the Anthro-Obscene*

by Erik Swyngedouw** It’s useless to wait-for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilisation. It is within this reality that we must choose sides. The Invisible … Continue reading Losing our Fear! Facing the Anthro-Obscene*