Murray Bookchin Centennial Conference & Events
Murray Bookchin Centennial Conference & Events
Social Ecology in Thailand
Din Deng, a radical journal focused on Thailand and Southeast Asia, has published the first Thai translation of Social Ecology: An Ecological Humanism, by ISE co-founder Dan Chodorkoff.
“Vive la Commune!”: Belgian exhibition celebrating the 150th birthday of the Paris Commune
New art exhibition in Belgium commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune – Vive la Commune!
Ecological Movements in Kurdistan: From Rojava to Bakur
Join us January 6 at 1 PM ET for a webinar on Ecological Movements in Kurdistan: From Rojava to Bakur.
Upcoming 2021 ISE Online Courses
Check out upcoming 2021 online courses from the Institute for Social Ecology, including Ecology Democracy Utopia (Jan 11), Frankfurt School Critical Theory (Jan 12), Understanding Antisemitism (March 10), and a new course on Food & Climate Justice in March!
Srsly Wrong’s Liberatory Laughter
Steven R. D. Henderson The left is starting to get better at comedy and it’s making righties nervous. For laughter holds hopeful seeds of a different world. Humour and democracy are similar. Adam Krause explains the former requires, “An understanding of, and an ability to move between, various modes of speaking and being.”[1] The latter …
Reimagining a World where Justice is Possible
Salddin Ahmed on the uprising against white supremacy sparked by the murder of George Floyd. “The real looters are the 1%, not those who have been robbed of their livelihood. The real thugs are the ruling elites who habitually associate looting and violence with the victims… A world that does not have a place for black people is too small, too stupid, and too violent to be fixed. Instead, it must be reimagined and reconstructed. “
First Arabic Translation of Murray Bookchin’s work now available!
The ISE is thrilled to announce the first-ever translation of Murray Bookchin’s work into Arabic: a translation of “The Communalist Project.”
When We Lose the Ability to Be Shocked, Fascism Has Already Arrived
A pattern of deterioration of the state is now visible from the USA and Brazil to India and Turkey despite the gulf that separates them in terms of political traditions, institutional practices, and constitutional protections of human rights. In each case, the public sphere is continually shrinking under the pressure of a mass movement that shows three incredibly dangerous symptoms: racism, religious fundamentalism, and a populist leader whose popularity among his volkisch base often increases the more anti-democratically he behaves.
New Social Ecology Comic!
We’re thrilled to share a new comic strip about social ecology and the ISE produced in collaboration with our friends at Ad Astra Comix – take a look!