Cosmic Anarchy and the Law of Increasing Complexity
If the entire universe follows laws of natural selection, what could this mean for social ecological views of nature?
“We Will Defend This Life, We Will Resist on This Land”
BUILDING SOCIAL-ECOLOGY UNDER ATTACKS IN ROJAVA/NORTH-EAST SYRIA Relatively unrecognized by the international public, the Turkish state has not only been killing civilians and political representatives in North-East Syria for years but also purposely carrying on an ecocide in the region, bombing basic civil infrastructure. Even in face of these attacks the population is resisting in […]
Elements of Liberatory Social Movement Organizations
Foundational elements for social movement organizations seeking to develop free and egalitarian social relations.
Authoritarianism, Anti-Jewish racism, and The Israel-Hamas War: An Open letter to the Left
By Chaia Heller: “The aim here is to address two problems emerging amidst the current war, challenging the left to present a principled response to both the dynamics of authoritarianism and rising anti-Jewish racism.”
A Second Nakba: Paving the Way to Genocide
Mason Herson-Hord explains the unfolding genocide against Palestinians in Gaza through the history of Israel’s radical right’s ascension to power.
“Over the course of these decades, there was a resulting shift in Israeli political consciousness where the historical necessity of the Nakba for the creation of the Jewish state transitioned from a truth to be masked or denied to one to be embraced and carried forward into Israel’s expansionist future.”
“Challenging Capitalist Modernity IV”: A Collective Stance to Demand Our World Back
The 2023 “Challenging Capitalist Modernity” conference in Hamburg brought together over a thousand activists and academics from all over the world for three days of utopian discourse.
Book Review – Ecology Contested: Environmental Politics Between Left and Right
“There have been significant links between environmentalism and Right-wing politics for more than a century,” Staudenmaier writes in his new book Ecology Contested: Environmental Politics Between Left and Right. “Knowingly or not, the perpetrators of the Christchurch and El Paso massacres continued that tradition.”
History Feature: How is Vermont like a ‘Third World’ country?
A 1971 pamphlet, popular during the early years of the ISE, sparked a statewide conversation about absentee ownership and neo-colonialism in Vermont.
Harbinger Issue #2: Race, Racism, and White Supremacy
After two years of pandemic delay, we’re very excited to announce that the new issue of Harbinger: a Journal of Social Ecology has now been released. The issue features nine timely contributions, all exploring social ecological perspectives on race, racism, and colonialism.
Tribute to Bruno Latour (1947 – 2022)
Chaia Heller writes, “There is an exciting complementarity between Bookchin and Latour’s approach to understanding the nature of nature—and reality itself.”
