Report from the January ISE intensive
by Eleanor Finley This year the Institute for Social Ecology hosted its annual week-long Winter Intensive program in Northampton, Massachusetts. Participants gathered at the Northampton Friends Meetinghouse, a bright, serene space in the heart of downtown Northampton. Classes were held each day from 9 to 6:45, with eight instructors lecturing and leading discussions on topics […]
Libertarian Municipalism and Citizen’s Movements in France
Hadrien Delahousse presented the following essay at the 2012 Social Ecology colloquium in Marshfield, Vermont. This is his revised version, which seeks to incorporate some of the themes we discussed last summer in Vermont: How Libertarian Municipalism Can Help Citizen’s Movements in France Libertarian Municipalism is very little known in France. The idea of a […]
Paradise Lot: New book from 2 ISE alums.!
Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City by Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates Information from Chelsea Green Books. Their link also contains ordering information. When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of […]
New writing on utopias
ISE alum Karl Hardy has edited a special issue of the literary journal Puerto del Sol, focusing on the theme of Utopias!. This special issue (47.2 Fall 2012) features original poetry and prose as well as a ’roundtable’ Q&A with: Kim Stanley Robinson – author of acclaimed utopian novels including The Three Californias, Mars, and […]
New book: “Recovering Bookchin”
New Compass Press, based in Norway, has just announced the publication of Recovering Bookchin: Social Ecology and the Crises of Our Time, written by Sheffield Hallam University (UK) Senior Lecturer, Dr. Andy Price. New Compass describes the rationale for this book: Through an extensive body of political and philosophical ideas he called social ecology, Murray […]
Municipalist campaign in Finland
A new post on the New Compass website describes the campaign of several municipal candidates in northern Finland who are running as part of a broader “Free Left” alliance. The article is an interview with Svante Malmström, who attended the ISE during the mid-2000s. Svante states that the group’s program … states that the decision-powers […]
New blog from ISE alum Andrea del Moral
From the lead essay, The ateneu of me, at http://andreadelmoral.wordpress.com/the-ateneu-of-me: The what? you ask. An ateneu is a community center-café-bar-meeting room-dance hall-library-theatre-gymnasium rolled into one. Ateneus dot the city of Barcelona, and like the lively, layered city itself, they are filled with multiple activities and people of many ages. Unlike Barcelona, they’re often visually uanssuming places, […]
Occupy your Neighborhood, by Dan Chodorkoff
A new essay from Dan Chodorkoff, co-founder of the ISE: Occupy your Neighborhood by Dan Chodorkoff Summer fades to Fall and more than one year has passed since Occupy Wall Street entered the public arena. Occupy’s message highlighted capitalism’s inherent injustices, and resonated with a broad cross section of the public. The initial media frenzy […]
Rise & evolution of Occupy: An international view
We recommend the latest tour de force of reporting and analysis by Jerome Roos of ROAR Magazine. Titled “Beyond Occupy: Liberating Ourselves From Debt Slavery,” Roos’ essay examines the evolution of the Occupy movement in the context of the evolving global uprising against monopoly capitalist domination of our lives.
Rethinking nature and culture
ISE board member Eleanor Finley recommends this interview with philosopher and Rice University literature professor, Timothy Morton. In his new book, The Ecological Thought, Morton examines prevailing assumptions about nature and culture in mainstream society and ecological activism. Using metaphysics and object-relations theory, he concludes that nature is “no more” than a social construction. The […]
