Tag Archives: coloniality

Progress as a trap.

Posted on 12 February, 2016 by eljubilado

Craig Bennett is the Chief Executive of Friends of the Earth UK. Last night (11/2/2016) he gave a lecture at Manchester Business School, “What is Progress: how are we doing and where next?” It was an interesting topic for a … Continue reading →

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Responses to the Ecomodernist Manifesto

Posted on 7 May, 2015 by eljubilado

Responses to the Ecomodernist Manifesto (3/12/15:  I update this piece as new material comes in). I recently came upon An Ecomodernist Manifesto, and was staggered by the scale of its unwarranted assumptions and errors. It argues that the malign human … Continue reading →

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CIA torture report: torture is but one aspect of this war.

Posted on 11 December, 2014 by eljubilado

The appearance of the US Senate report on torture practices by the CIA in the US “War on Terror” has confirmed the scale of torture by this agency of the USA State. I’m pleased to have been an early voice … Continue reading →

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About ‘our’ flags

Posted on 22 November, 2014 by eljubilado

In Denmark, many houses have small Danish flags outside. In many other countries, displaying the national flag is a normal thing to do. So is it a problem to fly the UK national flag, the “Union Flag”, or in England, … Continue reading →

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Liberation and living well

Posted on 21 November, 2014 by eljubilado

This week I’ve been busy in two distinct areas of “scholarly activism”.  At first sight they might seem very disparate, but I think they are part of the same overall project. On Monday, the Steady State Manchester collective, of which … Continue reading →

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Re-framing the mess we’re in: ideology-action-structures and coloniality V2

Posted on 14 May, 2014 by eljubilado

Re-framing the mess we’re in: ideology-action-structures and coloniality A working paper, 2013, Version 2 May, 2014 reframing the mess we are in V2 I have continued to work on these themes and thought it worth doing an update of the … Continue reading →

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Habermas and the Pit

Posted on 2 April, 2014 by eljubilado

This might be the first of an occasional series of mini summaries of the work of influential thinkers. First:  Jurgen Habermas Good on: Concept of legitimation crisis. Recognition that there are distinct knowledge paradigms – corresponding to different human interests … Continue reading →

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Re-framing the mess we’re in: ideology-action-structure complexes and coloniality.

Posted on 11 February, 2014 by eljubilado

Originally posted on Uncommontater:
Re-framing the mess we’re in:  ideology-action-structures and coloniality. This is a working paper in which I explore some ideas I’ve been working with.  It takes a long and comprehensive view of where we are, how we…

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This brutal Liberal government: reflections on the week of the Tory party conference.

Posted on 3 October, 2013 by eljubilado

We’ve just been subjected to the disturbing spectacle of a week of the Tory party conference and they still have the ability to surprise us with their brutality. On one level it is just a baying pack of bigots and … Continue reading →

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New Left Review – Yonatan Mendel: New Jerusalem

Posted on 6 June, 2013 by eljubilado

New Left Review – Yonatan Mendel: New Jerusalem. Good timing NLR! The above article gives some useful background to the observations on Jerusalem/Al Quds in my post on Palestine below.  It ends by noting the increasingly prevalent view that the … Continue reading →

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