by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
I just read the New York Times excerpt of Michael Patrick F. Smith’s (names don’t get more American, or Irish–his middle, middle name is Flanigan) book The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown. What...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
A million tourists or new luxury hotels may sound appealing, he added, “but is that sustainable? Is that going to help us in the long run?” The Washington Post’s expose today 18 Dec 2020 on the few island nations that are still 100% COVID-19-free discusses the...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Feb 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
Last year an edited volume on speculative vegetation that I contributed a chapter to on Tom Robbins’ Jitterbug Perfume came out with the University of Wales press in the New Dimensions in Science Fiction series (with a beautiful cover, I might add). Since then,...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Nov 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Register here: https://www.eur.nl/en/events/corona-and-climate-lunch-lecture-2020-11-18 Lunch lecture on the relationship between climate and viruses by environmental philosopher and public health scientist Yogi Hale Hendlin. The impact of the Covid-19 crisis on...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Oct 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
An short article I wrote zooming out on the Black Lives Matter movement – “Decolonization Matters” – has just appeared in the journal Kosmos: Journal for Global Transformation. There I write The “white fragility” fear that the oppressed will...
by Yogi Hale Hendlin | Aug 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
It’s a thing. Like greenwashing, whitewashing, or astroturfing. Bee-washing is big business. It’s how companies fool us into consuming more: by appeasing our sense of guilt beforehand. It’s almost like they tried to reverse engineer our resistant...
