by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 2, 2017 | beyond liberalism, Discursive Gap, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, normalization, Oil Barons, parasitism, Perverse Incentives, pollution, Priorities, Side-effects, Systems thinking, Uncategorized
Cognitive dissonance is a phenomena common amongst human beings who want to have their cake and eat it too. It comes from a willing ignorance to repress and suppress the world’s inconvenient truths and hold onto the frame (or fairytale) one inhabits (or chooses)...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 12, 2017 | beyond liberalism, cruelty, Discursive Gap, Uncategorized
A recent article I wrote for The Philosophical Salon can be found here. Titled “Not an Era for Apologetics,” it looks at the systematic bullying of university students by alt-right pseudo-intellectuals, and the reinforcement of hegemonic discourse in the...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 22, 2017 | Bureaucratic quixotic, cruelty, death, Discursive Gap, folly, Priorities, Uncategorized
Irony: UCSF sends employees an email warning of the thousands of people descending on Golden Gate Park to celebrate the annual 4/20 Cheech and Chong-inspired marijuana fest, but UC Berkeley sends out no notice to its employees and students that hundreds of violent...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 24, 2016 | agroecology, Bees, Biomimicry, Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Communication, Conferences, Discursive Gap, Interspecies Communication, Normal is Over, permaculture, Uncategorized
This is the first time since I moved back to California last November that I’ve been able to engage a world-class group of scholars and change-makers gathered together with the sole purpose of harmonizing human systems with natural ones. Last weekend at...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 19, 2016 | animals, Bees, Biosemiotics, Communication, Discursive Gap, Interspecies Communication, Talks
I’ll be presenting October 5, 2016, 6:30-8:30pm at the California Institute of Integral Studies on the book I’m working on, Interspecies Politics. The presentation, “Ensemblist Identities and the Ecological Self” is part of my larger...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 20, 2016 | Climate Change, Conferences, Discursive Gap, Interspecies Communication
Please visit one of the exciting panels I’m participating in this year in Philadelphia at the annual APSA Conference. Collective Action, Environmental Politics, and (Nonhuman) Animal Rights Division 3: Normative Political Theory Thu, September 1, 2:00 to...
