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 | 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...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Jan 19, 2026 | CDoH, chemicals, Climate Change, collapsology, Communication, Discursive Gap, e-waste, Energy, Environmental Justice, Extended Producer Responsibility, Industrial Epidemics, philosophy of science, Priorities, Systems thinking
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released the Global Environment Outlook, Seventh Edition (GEO-7) — the most comprehensive scientific assessment of the global environment to date. This landmark report synthesizes the latest environmental...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Mar 22, 2025 | agroecology, beyond liberalism, chemicals, Climate Change, Communication, Decolonization, deep ecology, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Fragmentation, Greenwashing, Indigenous Peoples, Industrial Epidemics, philosophy of science, Plants, Public Health, Semiocide, Side-effects, Syndemics, Talks
Everyone loves flowers. They brighten our day. They remind us of the beauty of life, and they are ephemeral, a memento mori of sorts to reflect upon our own mortality. But in the past half-century, the presence of flowers has moved from local to global markets, from...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 2, 2025 | beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Communication, duh, Fragmentation, the real
In Günther Anders’ 1958 essay The Obsolescence of Privacy, he opens with the epigraph: ‘The world is not only delivered to the house’, the inverse is also true, ‘the house is delivered to the world’. It is perhaps no coincidence, that as Hannah Arendt’s...
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...
