The climate emergency has an ideological as well as a physical history; the physical history tells us about how the climate emergency came into existence. The ideological history tells us about the ideas that enabled the conditions that permitted this to happen. https://www.academia.edu/88701819/Othering_and_performativity_as_ideological_enablers_of_fossil_extractivism
One of the more conspicuous paradoxes of the Gazan genocide is the weaponization of nominally progressive values to rationalise it ideologically. https://bendebney.substack.com/p/zionism-and-liberalism-are-getting
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zionist-conspiracism-shares-self-fulfilling-prophecies-with-kindergarten-sandpits
It is a particular irony of imperialist aggression in the Middle East that, thanks to decades-old geopolitical arrangements known as ‘petrodollar recycling,’ the Middle East finances its own invasions. https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/petrodollar-genocide
Where its capacity to betray any alleged values is concerned, the Australian Labor Party rarely disappoints. Since coming to power in the federal election in May, the ALP has once again revealed itself as a party of capital—allegations from the commentariat that this is news notwithstanding. This time around, federal Labor is not introducing neoliberal…
If dispassionate debate of ideas is the theoretical means by which policy is formed in liberal democracies, in these increasingly hostile and desperate conditions of late capitalism, culture war has become the reality. By culture war, we mean the polarisation of debate, the ‘Othering’ of opponents, the use of ‘wedge’ issues loaded with any number…
In this latest Australian election cycle, history repeats itself with increasing intensity as policy debate is relegated to a relic of history in favour of strategies of dissembling, distraction and scapegoating. This is not a new phenomenon, but one that has been emerging over the last two to three decades as parties scramble to resolve…
Reproductive justice has always been a bugbear for reactionaries and totalitarians. A woman who enjoys bodily autonomy and controls her own womb is free of the control of male supremacist hierarchies—those associated with the fundamentalism problematised in the mentalities of official enemies, but warmly embraced when benefitting traditionally privileged classes and the ideological status quo…
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them.” – Albert Einstein In even attempting to enter discussion around global warming, we are immediately confronted with multiple contending arguments and perspectives. At the baseline, we can generally agree that global warming exists, presenting the actual existential threat to human civilization…
