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January 2023

Mapping the Bubble
Introducing the Glexicon
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The Global Way of Knowing
If I were to summarize everything I’ve written in the last five years in one line, it would be:
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The Globe as an Organizing Principle
Part 1/N
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Regime Change: Global Times
Kant argued that we don’t have direct access to the world; we can only grasp it as filtered by our mental capacities.
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The Regime Change thesis
There’s no shortage of myths of a harmonious past when all beings lived in peace.
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Linear and nonlinear exploration
Linear exploration goes thus: you step out of our house and walk to the village center.
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Why climate needs us to think beyond the climate
Let’s say you were a progressive in the late 18th and early 19th century.
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Extinction but not Rebellion
Trotsky wanted us to live in a permanent revolution, but instead, we live in a permanent extinction.
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Planetary Life 2
The supreme irony of our planetary age is that the nightmare of the first phase - the nuclear winter - is the exact opposite of the nightmare of the…
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Planetary Life 1
I am switching to a series of shorter essays on M/W/F as a way of mapping the terrain I will cover in greater detail once the basic contours are known.
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Regime Change: The Transition from the Globe to the Planet
Reading for writing
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May 2022

Climate Leviathan 4
From the globe to the earth
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Climate Leviathan 3
The Planetary Animal and its Natural History
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Climate Leviathan 2
A new political order
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Introducing the Climate Leviathan
On restraint as a planetary virtue
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C8: Climate, Capital, Cities, Code + Contingency, Crisis, Contradiction, Change
Last week I talked about a lot of M-theories.
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April 2022

March 2022

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