by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Nov 22, 2024 | Bureaucratic quixotic, Climate Change, collapsology, Communication, death, deep ecology, deus ex machina, Discursive Gap, duh, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, Fragmentation, Industrial Epidemics, Normal is Over, Perverse Incentives, philosophy of science, Systems thinking
Everywhere we look, we see signs of climate denial, whether explicit as in people who are so traumatized by the idea of everything they care about coming crashing down that they outright refuse to entertain the possibility and consequences of ecological collapse...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 4, 2024 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Decolonization, duh, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, Fragmentation, Industrial Epidemics, philosophy of science, Public Health, Systems thinking, Verschlimmbessern
I get an email from Aporia Magazine titled “You’re probably a eugenicist” — provocatively suggesting that we all favor good genes, and that we, all-knowing moderns, imbued with science, know what good genes are. I take umbrage with Aporia for...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 19, 2023 | Climate Change, Communication, death, Decolonization, deep ecology, Discursive Gap, Environmental Political Theory, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, Fragmentation, Harm Reduction, Industrial Epidemics, philosophy of science, Priorities, Semiotics, Syndemics, Systems thinking, Unpleasant Design, Verschlimmbessern
“Burnout is nature’s way of telling you, you’ve been going through the motions your soul has departed; you’re a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.”?...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jun 23, 2023 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Climate Change, Communication, cruelty, death, Decolonization, deep ecology, Discursive Gap, duh, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, exploitation, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, Naturverlassenheit, Normal is Over, pollution, Public Health, Syndemics, Verschlimmbessern
I feel like this as an environmental professional: expected to educate why we need to make sustainable change to all those convinced that everything’s fine. One must imagine Sisyphus happy… (Camus) I cannot imagine how it is for climate and environmental...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 26, 2023 | Biophilia, Biosemiotics, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Extended Producer Responsibility, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, Naturverlassenheit, Semiotics, Unpleasant Design
Semiofest, the largest meeting and organization professional semioticians (working commercially rather than academically) just had a session biosemiotics. In many ways, it was also sustainability 2.0, tackling the issues of performativity and power in how we make...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Apr 8, 2023 | deus ex machina, Discursive Gap, Environmental Political Theory, Fake Freedoms, Industrial Epidemics, Interviews, Naturverlassenheit, Normal is Over, normalization, philosophy of science, Priorities, Public Health, Systems thinking, Unpleasant Design
A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of hanging out with Mario Veen and talking with him on his Life From Plato’s Cave podcast. It was a rollicking good time and enabled us to enter into some crevasses of why our world is so stuck, and how we can make it more...
