Itadakimasu: A Haiku for Takoyaki
“Itadakimasu” welcome to our feast give thanks, take thanks, we are one creamy cosmic tang I’m not sure how this all started, if there even is a beginning. There’s something about food, things...
The Biopolitics of Mexican Drug Cartels
While I’ve written about US-Mexican border politics before, I even did a Masters thesis on border politics, the state of affairs today in Northern Mexico is rapidly spiraling out of control. As...
Cement – The Hidden Killer
As Madeleine Rubenstein noted in a recent post at the Earth Institute, one of the hidden killers of the industrial world, as well as a major point-source of CO2 pollution, is concrete...
Reflecting on May Day – Occupy Needs New Tactics
So after a day of marching, rallies, speakers and events here in NYC, what did the May 1 General Strike change? That’s the question that’s been on my mind since I went to...
Logistics, Surveillance and New Modalities of Visualization: From RFID to Google Earth
A Brave New World doesn’t really even begin to capture it all… There has been a slow but stead growth in the logistics of surveillance, whether that be of people or of objects....
Welcome to the Anthropocene: Disaster Time
As I’ve discussed in an earlier post, the Anthropocene is a concept coined a little over a decade ago by scientists to describe the massive scale of changes happening to the Earth’s biosphere...
