Telescopes, Blind Spots, and Future Horizons on Mauna Kea By Greg Johnson This post pertains to the TMT project on Mauna Kea (Hawai`i), which the author has written about on this forum previously. For important background and analysis of the dispute, see this forum in Radical History Review. On 4 Read more
The End of Truth? Different Ways of Knowing Modernity with Max Weber and Rudolf Steiner By Aaron French The term “Post-truth” emerged in the context of the 2016 United States presidential election, quickly gaining in popularity as a way to describe a crisis of authority regarding the production of legitimate Read more
Berl-Berl and the Normality of Animism By Kocku von Stuckrad From July through September 2021, the legendary Berghain Club in Berlin was the site of an extraordinary immersive installation by the Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen: Berl-Berl, named after the ancient Slavic word for swamp, and also the linguistic—and physical—origin Read more
Epistemologies of Grief: Toward a More Inclusive Broken Heart By Jenny Veninga My childhood involved going to a lot of funerals, or at least it felt that way. Many of those services were for human members of my extended family—aunts and uncles and then all of my grandparents. But I Read more
Extinction Rebellion and the Ritualization of Climate Grief: Performing Species Loss and Putting Climate Justice on the Agenda By Marion Grau Leading up to the Norwegian general election on 13 September 2021, Extinction Rebellion Norway and Sweden engaged in a week-long festival of ‘Nordic Rebellion.’ It included a variety of Read more
The False Gods of Individual Freedom and Nature By Whitney A. Bauman From anti-immigration in Europe to anti-vaxxers in the US and elsewhere, the strange phenomenon of so-called “horseshoe theory politics” continues to rear its head. Though many have a problem with this theory of politics, the question still remains: Read more
Calling All Solarpunks! Symmetrical Myths and Rituals for Survival By Morgan Tomalty We are living in a moment where progress is no longer forward, but on we trudge down that doomed path. The “end of history” promise is of a globalized world as the ultimate social and economic antidote, but Read more
Not Survival, but Prophecy… Is This a Monastic Moment? By Dion Forster In some parts of the world daily life is starting to return to “normal,” whatever that may mean. Of course, this is not the case for everybody. Poorer persons in poorer regions of the world continue to face Read more
Poetry for a Polarized People By Anna Mercedes My biggest fears of late have not been of the obvious things. Those are also fears: the earthquakes and the hurricanes and the floods. The upheaval in Afghanistan.The Delta variant. Yet my biggest fear has been of a different instability, one that Read more
The Im/Possibility of Global Solidarity By Catherine Keller Recently I found myself part of a conversation about the question: “Can Human Solidarity Globalize?” At first, political philosopher Richard Falk’s question sounds straightforward. But as one attempts to frame an answer, it takes on the hint of a Zen koan. An Read more