Radical Change

  • On when to cause offence

    There is something that has bothered me for years.

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  • Publication: Paper on Responsbility for Radical Change in addressing Climate Change

    Paper by Nicole des Bouvrie*, Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen & Nigel Jollands, published online in ‘Carbon Management’ (2015). Abstract: To radically address the problem of climate change, it is not enough to modify specific attitudes and behaviors while upholding the present paradigms. This article aims to show why modifications will never bring about radical carbon emission reductions. We discuss…

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  • Radicality of/in Writing

    “Tout écrivain qui, par le fait même d’écrire, n’est pas conduit à penser: je suis la révolution, seule la liberté me fait écrire, en réalité n’écrit pas.” ~ Maurice Blanchot, La Part du Feu, Gallimard 1949, p.311.

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  • Back to the essence of things

    Interesting when you read a neat description of what you’ve been thinking about for such a long time now, and to see how it is related to the noumenal… From Zizek’s “Ideology I: No Man is an Island” (http://www.lacan.com/zizwhiteriot.html) “In his review of Badiou’s Ethics, Terry Eagleton wrote: There is a paradox in the idea of…

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  • Reflecting on Radical Emission Reduction Conference 2013

    This week the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research organised a conference on the need for ‘Radical Emission Reduction’. I was given ten minutes to talk about a philosopher’s take on ‘radical change’ and the consequences for the manner in which we frame responsibility, for both individuals as institutions – in front of around two hundred (social) scientists,…

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