Audio: Chodorkoff’s NYC Anarchist Bookfair “Loisaida” reading
Audio is now available from ISE co-founder Dan Chodorkoff’s reading from his debut novel Loisaida at the 2011 NYC Anarchist Bookfair. Loisaida (Fomite Press) is now available from Amazon. Please do ask your local bookseller to order copies. Please click here for the audio.
“Mumford Gutkind Bookchin” – A brief review
Review of Janet Biehl’s booklet, Mumford Gutkind Bookchin: The Emergence of Eco-Decentralism (available from New Compass Press) by Brian Tokar The link between ecology and decentralist politics is often taken as a given, as natural a connection as between bees and pollen or tulips and Dutch gardens. But as with everything in the evolution of […]
“The half-life of disaster” by Brian Massumi
ISE Director Brian Tokar recommends this article from Brian Massumi, who translated Deleuze & Guattari’s 1000 Plateaus and several later writings of theirs into English. Here’s an excerpt from the piece: As a counterweight to the conditions of precariousness fostered by disaster capitalism itself, certain key economic sectors are allowed to consolidate through mergers. These quasi-monopolistic […]
Social Ecologist Profile: Rafter Sass of Urbana, IL
Please introduce yourself (What kind of work you do, Where you live, etc.) I’m a research agroecologist, Permaculture designer, and educator-activist. I recently moved to Urbana, IL, with my partner Brook, where I’m working on a PhD at University of Illinois. As a Permaculturist and ecological designer, I’ve done work in waste and water treatment, agroforestry, whole farm and homestead […]
Chodorkoff’s novel “Loisaida” now available
ISE co-founder, longtime Director, and current Board member Dan Chodorkoff’s long-awaited and much-anticipated novel Loisaida (Fomite Press) is now available from Amazon. Please do also contact your local bookseller and request that they order Loisaida. In related news, Dan reports that his Loisaida reading at the 2011 NYC Anarchist Bookfair went very well! Here’s the novel’s description, as provided […]
Audio: NYC Anarchist Bookfair Closing Plenary with Ashanti Alston
Audio from the closing plenary of the 2011 New York City Anarchist Bookfair featuring ISE associate Ashanti Alston is now available. Click here to link to the audio.
Audio: Capitalism, Climate Change, and Social Conflicts
Now Available: audio from a 2011 Left Forum panel discussion entitled “Capitalism, Climate Change, and Social Conflicts.” The panelists include ISE Director Brian Tokar, Chris Williams (Pace University), and Younes Abouyoub (Columbia University). The panel was sponsored by the Union for Radical Political Economics and was chaired by Emily Giles. Click here to link to the audio.
New Perspectives in Social Ecology
by Eric Jacobson I wanted to add my voice to the discussion that has been initiated on these pages on whether fresh ideas can brought to the table of Social Ecology. By Social Ecology, I mean the human dimension of nature, both the phenomenological inter-subjectivity between humans and the environment (we are beings that are […]
Social Ecology talk at Yale April 14th
Murray Bookchin, Social Ecology and American Environmentalism Damian White, Associate Professor of Sociology, The Rhode Island School of Design Dept of Environmental Studies and Forestry, Yale University; April 14th, 2011 Kroon Hall, 195 Prospect St. New Haven CT 7 pm. Murray Bookchin first wrote a critique of the use of chemicals in agriculture in 1952. […]
Continuing the dialogue
Some background, to help contextualize this piece for those who might be new to this discussion. This past January, I published a short essay “Social ecology needs development, dissent, dynamism” on the Social Ecology Blog hosted on the Institute for Social Ecology’s website. My intention was not to specifically articulate my own evolving perspective but to try and […]
