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https://www.brookings.edu/articles/preventing-the-next-zoonotic-pandemic/ *pandemics can also result from improper husbandry, when domestic livestock are not separated from wild animals, as well as from veterinary failures*absence of adequate regulations on wildlife trafficking*habitat destruction, loss, fragmentation from logging, mining, and agriculture*demand for more global legislation and enforcement, that reimagines livestock production and its locations in conjunction with conservation measures….
Interview with Alyssa Battistoni, 2021.From the webinar series, Facing the Anthropocene at Duke U “What is nature’s capacity to contribute to human well-being and how should we understand it in relationship to politics and economics?” To answer, she first looked backward, tracing the term “free gifts of nature” in the thought of the classical political…
Sunaura and Astrid Taylor, Solidarity Across SpeciesInterview with Sunaura Taylor, Edge Effects Anthropocentrism is ableist (privileges only certain kinds of animal intelligence, for instance) Big Ag must maim, wound, disable animals (and ecosystems) in order to maximize profits Move beyond ableist agendas that focus on human power, the exploitation of biopower across species by abolishing…
Do Bees Produce Value? 2017 ES argues that “exploitation” is not applicable to nature; one must say “destruction.” GK writes that I wonder what would a labour theory of value look like if one started from the premise that value is produced from whoever does work (human or non-human, paid or unpaid) and then draw…
A manifesto is a public declaration of the purpose, principles, or plan of action of a group or individual. …derived from the Italian word manifesto, itself derived from the Latin manifestum, meaning clear or conspicuous. Its first recorded use in English is from 1620, in Nathaniel Brent‘s translation of Paolo Sarpi‘s History of the Council of Trent: “To this citation he made answer…
I am looking for sample language to compose #MSU demands. What is the formal rhetorical style? What is the format? Is it like this? Unions for All means doing four things: Bring employers, workers and government together at industry-wide bargaining tables to negotiate wages, benefits, and working conditions. Establish the National Labor Relations Act as the…
Brian Michael Murphy shared this article by Natasha Myers, How to grow liveable worlds: Ten (not-so-easy) steps for life in the Planthroposcene, and I’ve been thinking about how to work with it in unexpected ways (expected ways might include the usual, impossible-to-achieve and privileged individual or atomized family going off grid, a jaunt with ayahuasca…
These are notes from my conversation with Vivek, a material physicist, on the idea of “work” at a molecular level. The world tends toward disorder (entropy); almost any action in the world increases entropy (second law of thermodynamics). An egg spreads when cracked open in a pan. The phenomenon of aging is the result of…
“How would our experience of reality be different ifexistence were commonly imagined to be a collective affair?” Reading about Karen Barad, her influence in multispecies thinking in the issue of Antennae Magazine on Multispecies Intra-actions… — the interview with Kirksey— Pindell’s writing on Beuys and Decomposition (de-composing, compost, breakdown seems like an interesting counterpoint to…
MY NOTES In order for a union to form and have power, what must be recognized in order to be resisted? Who asserts a form of confidence- power exerts confidence by delineating and then controlling the boundaries of the given system; it does so by playing a confidence game of telling you this is “inexorable,”…
LATOURThe earth is undergoing a Mutation, not a Crisis; in the midst of a speedy, planetary regime shift (video explainer by Oonsie Biggs). He goes further though to state that “you might expect us to feel that we had shifted from a mere ecological crisis into what should instead be called a profound mutation in…
Future bibliography: A politic that is not human-centric?Facing Gaia, Bruno Latour1st, 7th, 8th lectures Readings at intersection of feminism, multispecies, labor, care: Ecofeminism: an overview, science directmary mellor, ariel salleh, giovannah di chiro, vandana shiva, Alyssa Battistoni:– Material World (on Latour) Rights and personhood Systems-centric early ecofeminism Technoecologies of Borders: Thinking with Borders as Multispecies Matters of…
Can we tease out ways in which the environment is a part of (social) reproduction theory: what in the environment provides the conditions for production, and is generally ignored or theoretically suppressed?– equitable access to what we get “for free” such as clean water and air– knowledge of complex systems (not ecosystem services, irreducible only…
Summary: This range of readings covered a key precedent text, and contemporary theorizing around the tangle of social reproduction theory and (neo)liberal feminism in capitalist frameworks. IF WORKERS PRODUCE COMMODITIES, WHO PRODUCES THE WORKER? Key to social reproduction theory (SRT) is an understanding of the ‘production of goods and services and the production of life…
Thought we could start a list of people to speak with. Brian Michael Murphy (Bennington) – yesRon Broglio (ASU, animal studies)Una Chaudhuri (NYU)Beka Economopoulos (Not an Alternative, Natural History Museum)Timothy Morton or Dominic Boyer (CENHS, Rice)Just transition expertUnion organizer (visionary)
what’s the latest on just transition? Salient notes from this Feb 2021 article, regarding California’s plan to phase out oil production: 80 organizations sent a letter today to the EPA, NRDC, Office of Planning and Research, Labor and Workforce development) asking them to conduct a robust public process for each report, and produce documents that genuinely incorporate…
we depend on oil for everything. he admits we need to admit it’s a problem, because of climate change: As we accept our responsibility to address this awesome generational obligation, and as we work to put in place policies that balance our need for bold action with the more modest day-to-day needs of working people,…
Thanks to Kenny Bailey of ds4si, i now know something about Collapsology. In an open letter published in the Guardian today, 246 international scholars write that efforts to cut emissions and naturally drawdown carbon are essential, researchers in many areas consider societal collapse a credible scenario this century. Different views exist on the location, extent,…