Camus on Art and Revolt: samuelalexander.info/wp-content/upl… #camus #art #revolt #aesthetics

What if the universe was elevated to the dignity of a work of art? How would we live differently in an aesthetic universe? samuelalexander.info/wp-content/upl… #aesthetics #art #duchamp #readymade #Danto #endofart

"Pessimism without Despair: Suffering, Desire, and the Affirmation of Life". A new essay on #Schopenhauer and #Nietzsche samuelalexander.info/wp-content/upl… #pessimism #affirmation #aesthetics #art #buddhism

An Aesthetic Justification of Existence: The Redemptive Function of Art: samuelalexander.info/wp-content/upl… #Nietzsche #art #aesthetics

Our new report Welcome to the Great Unraveling: Navigating the Polycrisis of Environmental and Social Breakdown claims that the #polycrisis is evidence that humanity is entering a time of immensely complex consequences, and it's now available for download: postcarbon.org/publications/w…

The Great Unraveling is upon us, and it challenges us to grapple with the prospect of a far more difficult future. We hope you can check out the report, share it with your communities, and let us know your thoughts: postcarbon.org/publications/w…

I just love the cover of our new Post Carbon Institute report. It's so hard to capture a concept like "environmental & social breakdown", but artist @micheleguieu nailed it. #ShowYourStripes postcarbon.org/publications/w……

The truly terrifying news this week is not what happened deep beneath the sea, it's what's going on at the surface

Art against Empire: What did Herbert #Marcuse have to say about the role of #art and #aesthetics in social and political change? samuelalexander.info/wp-content/upl…

"It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them." —Miguel Anxo F. Lores, Mayor of #Pontevedra🇪🇸 (re-elected SIX time)

The Apocalyptic Sublime: resilience.org/stories/2023-0…

According to the #IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report, to limit global warming to '1.5°C with no or limited overshoot', then global CO2 emissions decline: * 48% in 6 years * 80% in 14 years * 99% in 24 years (thanks David Ho for reminding me to remind people) ipcc.ch/report/sixth-a…

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we

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We've all seen these charts. They go viral on social media every few months, with claims that "green growth is happening". Is green growth really happening? We assess this question empirically in a new article out today in The Lancet Planetary Health: 🧵thelancet.com/journals/lanpl…

Finally out! 1st diagnosis of the entire Planet. All the 9 Planetary Boundaries quantified defining Our Safe Operating Space on Earth. Bad news: 6 of 9 PBs breached. Good news: Window still open, we know what to measure, we can return and we win if we do! science.org/doi/full/10.11…

S M P L C T Y: Ecological Civilisation and the Will to Art: Excerpt dlvr.it/SwLy5x

Ecological Civilisation and the Will to Art: Introduction resilience.org/stories/2023-0… #ecologicacivilization #aesthetics #willtoart #permaculture #voluntarysimplicity #degrowth

Why is there no place for new fossil fuel infrastructure to stay below 1.5°C (& 1.7°C)? Because the CO2 emissions from existing infrastructure exceeds a carbon budget for 1.5° & 1.7°C under normal operating conditions. New fact sheet on carbon budgets: 4c-carbon.eu/resources/poli…

Jason Hickel Serge Latouche Serge Latouche Erin Remblance Resilience.org ICTA-UAB Manuel Grebenjak Research & Degrowth International Matthias Schmelzer Post Growth Institute Simple Living in History: Pioneers of the Deep Future, edited by Samuel Alexander and Amanda McLeod. Samuel Alexander has dedicated himself to showing others how rewarding a simple life can be. glli-us.org/2023/12/06/deg… #DegrowthLitMonth #SimpleLiving #Essays #ASimpleLife 🧵