by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 16, 2026 | Ecodelics, fake loops, Fragmentation, philosophy of science, Public Health, Publications, Side-effects, Systems thinking
What happens when we try to industrialize psychedelics? A growing pharmaceutical model seeks to make psychedelics more scalable, standardized, and medically compliant by separating their supposedly “active” biochemical effects from the subjective experience that...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Sep 4, 2026 | agnotology, Communication, Discursive Gap, Normal is Over, Publications, Semiocide
Out now from Open Humanities Press! The TRUMP administration “banned” a number of research terms. In CONTRADICTionary, each of these terms gets its own entry. CONTRADICTionary: An Almanac of Resistance is a collective intervention into the politics of language at a...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 24, 2026 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Climate Change, Discursive Gap, parasitism, Priorities, SolarPunk, Syndemics
Curious what people are actually doing to help. Rather than just talking about it. Discourse is great. It lets off steam and does a doozy for moral accounting: we feel moral for talking about it, reducing the urge to actually take action. But without action, there is...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
Erwin van Tuijl and I have just published a new article in the journal Politics and Governance on solidarity in just heating transitions, and why it isn’t enough on its own. Heating is the neglected sibling of energy transition governance. It’s also where...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jul 26, 2026 | agnotology, agroecology, Aphorisms, Bad Advertising, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, Communication, Decolonization, Discursive Gap, duh, exploitation, folly, Unpleasant Design
We need the default to be good. By which I mean intentional. Nature. If it’s made with AI, it must say “Made with AI,” so that we don’t have to constantly be checking everywhere and everyone doesn’t have to obsessively say, “I made...
