Ecocide as Semiocide: The Demise of Nature and Its Impact on Meaning

by | Apr 24, 2024 | Decolonization, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, Normal is Over, permaculture, philosophy of science, Priorities, Semiocide, Semiotics, Systems thinking, Talks

2 May 2024 talk at Utrecht University I’m excited to be giving a talk at Utrecht University’s Ecocide Interdisciplinarity Series Talks for Justice. Part of their Conceptualizing Ecocide project, they get that if we wish to actually create a solid Path to...

A semiotic analysis of WSJ article on Bayer’s glyphosate problems

by | Jun 18, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Fake Freedoms, fake loops, folly, Fragmentation, glyphosate, Greenwashing, Industrial Epidemics, pollution, Priorities, Public Health, Semiocide, Semiotics, Syndemics, Systems thinking

The original article, published here, takes a rather pro-industry “we’ll engineer our way out of this” approach. Rather than observing a fundamental problem in putting artificial inputs unsustainably into agriculture, the article plays to the upbeat...