August 2024

Mirages

I am sitting on the beach at the National Seashore, a forty-mile long stretch of the Atlantic Ocean seashore on Outer Cape Cod, established in 1961 by President Kennedy.  The…

‘Our Problem is Civil Obedience’!

'Our Problem is Civil Obedience..' (1) Words of legendary American historian, playwright, philosopher and socialist intellectual Howard Zinn ( 1922-2010) still are repeated world over whenever the people living in…

Hanging On with Gaza

We must join with the call of the South African government which bravely upheld international law. We must clamor for the General Assembly to enact the “uniting for peace” resolution.…

Being Human

This is the seventeenth of 18 installments in the Metastatic Modernity video series (see launch announcement), putting the meta-crisis in perspective as a cancerous disease afflicting humanity and the greater community of life…

Lumpen Politics of Starmer

In a Labour Party Election Broadcast on April 16th, 2024, Sir Keir Starmer highlighted how his working-class background influences his approach to politics. In a BBC interview on May 27th,…

Rape Culture: The Jig is Up!

Each year millions of Indians celebrate the killing of an Asura King by Hindu Goddess Durga for ten days. The Hindu festival, set in casteist narratives has us convinced that…

The Collective Creativity of Workers

From Unconscious Sleeping Giants to Conscious Builders of Barricades Part I Orientation One purpose of this article is to get you to think of creativity in a whole new way.…

A New Book On Bicycle

‘The Bicycle in India: Selected Articles and Stories’ by T. Vijayendra.  Hyderabad, 2024, Ecologise Hyderabad. Price Rs. 100/  This is a book about the bicycle in India in the context…

Wayanad landslide: Slopes do matter

“Everyone knows everything but no one wants to say anything,” philosophized Joseph CR after witnessing the devastating landslide in Kerala’s Wayanad. On Aug. 4, CR went near the Chempra Peak,…

AI’s Energy Use – a View from Germany

Perhaps such activities as simple as searching on the Internet or sending an email, artificial intelligence or AI depends on data processing centers. These are sizable factory- or better warehouse-like physical structures that house computing machines and other…

Recap and Mythology

This is the sixteenth of 18 installments in the Metastatic Modernity video series (see launch announcement), putting the meta-crisis in perspective as a cancerous disease afflicting humanity and the greater community of life…

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