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2 episodes with troy vettese
2 episodes with troy vettese
2 episodes with troy vettese
Jacob Blumenfeld discusses the concept of “managing decline”, the subject of fossil capitalism and the implications of transitioning away from it. --- Info on Creative Construction Book Launch: Date: March 4th, 19h Location: aquarium am Südblock Skalitzer Str. 6 10999 Berlin Deutschland About the book: Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk] https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help: Democratic planning – an information website https://www.democratic-planning.com/ Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1 International Network for Democratic Economic Planning https://www.indep.network/ Democratic Planning Research Platform: https://www.planningresearch.net/ --- Shownotes The Centre for Social Critique at the Humboldt University Berlin: https://criticaltheoryinberlin.de/ Blumenfeld, J. (2022). Climate barbarism: Adapting to a wrong world. Constellations, 30(2), 162–178. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12596 Blumenfeld, J. (2023) What was socialization. A look back. https://sfb294-eigentum.de/en/blog/what-was-socialization-a-look-back/ Blumenfeld, J. (2024a). Managing Decline. Cured Quail, Vol. 3. https://curedquail.com/Managing-Decline Blumenfeld, J. (2024b). The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel. Freedom, Right, and Recognition. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Concept-of-Property-in-Kant-Fichte-and-Hegel-Freedom-Right-and-Recognition/Blumenfeld/p/book/9781032575186 Blumenfeld, J. (2024c). Socialising Nature. https://www.break-down.org/post/socialising-nature Blumenfeld, J. (2024d). Welcome to the Anderscene. Brooklyn Rail. https://brooklynrail.org/2024/07/field-notes/Welcome-to-the-Anderscene/ Angebauer, N., Blumenfeld, J., & Wesche, T. (2025). Umkämpftes Eigentum: Eine gesellschaftstheoretische Debatte. Suhrkamp. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/umkaempftes-eigentum-t-9783518300503 Jacob contributed to this soon to be published book: Forstenhäusler, Robin, et al. (Eds.). (2025). Klima und Gesellschaftskritik. Verbrecher Verlag. https://www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/klimawandel-und-gesellschaftskritik/ Buck, H. J. (2021). Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/2735-ending-fossil-fuels on the productive forces turning into destructive forces see: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01d.htm Staab, P. (2022). Anpassung. Leitmotiv der nächsten Gesellschaft. Suhrkamp. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/philipp-staab-anpassung-t-9783518127797 Felli, R. (2021). The Great Adaptation: Climate, Capitalism and Catastrophe. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/841-the-great-adaptation Malm, A., & Carton, W. (2024). Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/3131-overshoot on the „Promethean Gap“: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promethean_gap on Otto Neurath: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Neurath on Freud's concept of the “Reality Principle”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_principle Marcuse, H. (1955) Eros and Civilization. A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud. Beacon Press. https://archive.org/details/HerbertMarcuseErosandCivilization on Vaclav Smil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaclav_Smil on the Yellow Wests Protests (also “Gilets Jaunes”): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_protests Mann, G., & Wainwright, J. (2018). Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/520-climate-leviathan Moore, S., & Roberts, A. (2022). The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right. Polity Books. https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-rise-of-ecofascism-climate-change-and-the-far-right--9781509545377 on Marxist crisis theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_theory Markley, S. (2023) The Deluge. Simon & Schuster. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Deluge/Stephen-Markley/9781982123109 Future Histories Episodes on Related Topics S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e23-andreas-malm-on-overshooting-into-climate-breakdown/ S03E30 | Matt Huber & Kohei Saito on Growth, Progress and Left Imaginaries https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e30-matt-huber-kohei-saito-on-growth-progress-and-left-imaginaries/ S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/ S02E55 | Kohei Saito on Degrowth Communism https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e55-kohei-saito-on-degrowth-communism/ S02E47 | Matt Huber on Building Socialism, Climate Change & Class War https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e47-matt-huber-on-building-socialism-climate-change-class-war/ S02E27 | Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e27-nick-dyer-witheford-on-biocommunism/ S02E18 | Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese on Half Earth Socialism https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e18-drew-pendergrass-and-troy-vettese-on-half-earth-socialism/ Future Histories Contact & Support If you like Future Histories, please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories Contact: office@futurehistories.today Twitter: https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehpodcast/ Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistories English webpage: https://futurehistories-international.com Episode Keywords #JacobBlumenfeld, #Podcast, #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #futurehistoriesinternational, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Degrowth, #Socialism, #Capitalism, #GreenNewDeal, #ClimateJustice, #PoliticalEconomy, #ClimateCrisis, #FossilCapitalism, #EcoSocialism, #Marx, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #Market, #Adaption, #Mitigation, #AndreasMalm, #Marcuse, #Freud, #DemocraticPlanning, #PostCapitalism, #ClimatePolitics, #RadicalEcology, #JustTransition, #Prometheanism
Kohei Saito and Matt Huber discuss degrowth communism, socialist ecomodernism and their respective views on growth, natural limits, technology and progress. --- If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help: Democratic planning – an information website https://www.democratic-planning.com/ Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1 Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk] https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction International Network for Democratic Economic Planning https://www.indep.network/ Democratic Planning Research Platform: https://www.planningresearch.net/ --- Shownotes Kohei Saito at University of Tokyo: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/people/k0001_04217.html Saito is chair of the “Beyond Capitalism: War Economy and Democratic Planning” Program at The New Institute: https://thenew.institute/en/programs/beyond-capitalism-war-economy-and-democratic-planning Matt Huber at Syracuse University: https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/directory/matthew-t-huber Saito, K. (2024). Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism can save the Earth. W&N. https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kohei-saito/slow-down/9781399612999/ Saito, K. (2023). Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/marx-in-the-anthropocene/D58765916F0CB624FCCBB61F50879376 Saito, K. (2017). Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy. Monthly Review Press. https://monthlyreview.org/product/karl_marxs_ecosocialism/ Huber, M. T. (2022). Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/775-climate-change-as-class-war?srsltid=AfmBOop0wE8Ljdd-lZjDF-9-RZ_QvjRz2f3EobOv3AYEVpcqMDssRUd9 Huber, M. T. (2013). Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital. University of Minnesota Press. https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816677856/lifeblood/ Matt Huber's and Leigh Philipps's review of Saito's recent work: https://jacobin.com/2024/03/kohei-saito-degrowth-communism-environment-marxism on Huber's critique of degrowth: https://jacobin.com/2023/07/degrowth-climate-change-economic-planning-production-austerity more articles on Jacobin by Huber: https://jacobin.com/author/matt-huber Matt Huber's medium blog: https://medium.com/@Matthuber78 On Ecomodernism: https://thebreakthrough.org/ecomodernism Matt Huber's stance on the term “Ecomodernism”: https://medium.com/@Matthuber78/clarifications-on-ecomodernism-3b159cafb836 on Vaclav Smil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaclav_Smil chapter on machinery and modern industry in Marx's Capital Vol.1: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm on Eco-Marxism/Ecosocialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-socialism Reading guide on Ecology & Marxism by Andreas Malm: https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/ecology-marxism-andreas-malm/ on GDP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product Schmelzer, M. (2016). The Hegemony of Growth: The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/hegemony-of-growth/A80C4DF19D804C723D55A5EFE7A447FD on the „Green New Deal”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal Pollin, R. (2018) De-Growth vs. a Green New Deal. New Left Review Issue 112. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii112/articles/robert-pollin-de-growth-vs-a-green-new-deal Hickel, J. (2020). What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification. Globalizations, 18(7), 1105–1111. https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/utopia1313/files/2022/11/What-does-degrowth-mean-A-few-points-of-clarification.pdf on Malthusianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism Harvey, D. (1974). Population, Resources, and the Ideology of Science. Economic Geography, 50(3), 256–277. https://www.uky.edu/~tmute2/GEI-Web/password-protect/GEI-readings/harvey%20population.pdf the „Limits to Growth” report from 1972: https://www.clubofrome.org/publication/the-limits-to-growth/ Hickel, J. (2019) Degrowth: A Theory of Radical Abundance. Real-World Economics Review Issue 87. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59bc0e610abd04bd1e067ccc/t/5cb6db356e9a7f14e5322a62/1555487546989/Hickel+-+Degrowth%2C+A+Theory+of+Radical+Abundance.pdf on Planetary Boundaries: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html Earl C. Ellies: https://ges.umbc.edu/ellis/ on “Decoupling”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-economic_decoupling Christophers, B. (2024). The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/3069-the-price-is-wrong?srsltid=AfmBOorFVDdqKegvmh1GA8ku3xla4rBjygkm0iwPL5VXF-BH-O1WOkMo on the Haber-Bosch Process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process Smil, V. (2004). Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production. MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262693134/enriching-the-earth/ Smil, V. (2016). Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses. MIT Press. https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/4023/Power-DensityA-Key-to-Understanding-Energy-Sources on Mining and the Green Energy Transition: https://soundcloud.com/novaramedia/novara-fm-clean-energy-is-already-terraforming-the-earth-w-thea-riofrancos Marx's letter to Vera Zasulich: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/zasulich/index.htm Marx's “Preface” to “A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy”: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/preface.htm Future Histories Episodes on Related Topics S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown https://www.futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e23-andreas-malm-on-overshooting-into-climate-breakdown/ S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning https://www.futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/ S03E02 | George Monbiot on Public Luxury https://www.futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03/e02-george-monbiot-on-public-luxury/ S02E55 | Kohei Saito on Degrowth Communism https://www.futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s02/e55-kohei-saito-on-degrowth-communism/ S02E47 | Matt Huber on Building Socialism, Climate Change & Class War https://www.futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s02/e47-matt-huber-on-building-socialism-climate-change-class-war/ S02E18 | Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese on Half Earth Socialism https://www.futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s02/e18-drew-pendergrass-and-troy-vettese-on-half-earth-socialism/ Future Histories Contact & Support If you like Future Histories, please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories Contact: office@futurehistories.today Twitter: https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehpodcast/ Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistories English webpage: https://futurehistories-international.com Episode Keywords #MattHuber, #KoheiSaito, #Podcast, #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #futurehistoriesinternational, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Degrowth, #Socialism, #Capitalism, #GreenNewDeal, #ClimateJustice, #WorkingClass, #PoliticalEconomy, #ClimateCrisis, #FossilCapitalism, #EcoSocialism, #Marx, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #Class, #ClassStruggle, #DemocraticPlanning, #DegrowthCommunism, #PostCapitalism, #ClimatePolitics, #RadicalEcology, #JustTransition, #Prometheanism, #Communism, #Progress
Emilia is co-author of the book Think Like A Vegan and host of the Think Like a Vegan podcast. She is involved in the Birchfield Highlands re-wilding project in Scotland, edits the quarterly magazine for The Heath & Hampstead Society in London and has developed life skills and ethics workshops for underserved youth. Professionally, she has been a corporate finance lawyer for over 20 years. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what's real?” & “who matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube. 00:00 Clips! 01:25 Welcome - Shared Sentientism guests with @thinklikeavegan : - Troy Vettese episode - Josh Milburn episode - Aysha Akhtar episode 04:41 Emilia's Intro - Corporate finance, vegan writing / podcasting, rewilding in Scotland, magazine editing 05:45 What's Real? - Growing up in Italy - #catholic school "which I hated... it never made sense to me that only some people... would go to heaven" - Letting teachers know at 5-6 years old "this doesn't make any sense"... "they kind of stopped asking me questions" - Dad is an Indian philosophy professor - Investigating eastern and western traditions and religions "I said 'none of it matters'... it matters what I do here and now" - "People have their traditions and I love that...but for me ultimately I don't need to have any of that" - "The fundamental of all of them is love... just practice it" - "That love then turns in to a respect and a valuing... of sentient life... and everything that's around us" - "Plants & funghi... even minerals and mountains... they may not feel anything but that doesn't matter... it's all connected" - "The fate of the least among us... is extremely important" - "Bees and insects... how they go, we go" - "I don't need an outside force to tell me to do the right thing" - "A certain basic fairness... treat everyone the same unless there's a morally relevant reason to treat them differently" - "I have personally witnessed things that I cannot explain... there's lots of things I don't know... so I've decided that's fine" - "You have to leave space for changing your mind... we learn everything!" - JW: How broken epistemology can lead "good" people to do terrible things - The ethical and epistemological errors that justify animal agriculture - Maneesha Deckha's "beingness" concept - "We as advocates have to be better at our own rhetoric" - "We live in a capitalist, non-vegan world... so there will be inherent things that you are not going to be able to solve" - "You don't need to be well versed in philosophy... we can all get there" - Examining what's driving our actions... fear (of others, change, deistic reprisal, social norms, admitting we were wrong) - JW: Uncommon common sense re: ethical and epistemic basics - Humans building convenient hierarchies "as long as you're at the top" - "Animal agribusiness has never been nice... 10,000 years ago... 5,000 years ago... there's always objectification, exploitation and death... that doesn't change" - "To the being - you only have one life" 26:20 What Matters? 53:13 Who Matters? 01:00:42 A Better World? 01:22:00 Follow Emilia - EmiliaLeese.com - Think Like a Vegan Podcast - @emiisgoodeating Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info. Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form. Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. The biggest so far is here on FaceBook. Come join us there! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sentientism/message
Troy Vettese is an environmental historian who specializes in environmental economics, animal studies, and energy history. In 2019 he completed his doctorate in history at New York University. From 2019 to 2021, he worked at Harvard University as a William Lyon Mackenzie King postdoctoral research fellow. He has collaborated with Drew Pendergrass, an environmental engineer, on numerous projects including their book Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics . Troy is currently revising his dissertation on neoliberal environmental thought into a book, tentatively titled 'Beyond Externality'. In addition to his academic work, Vettese writes on a wide array of environmental topics for a popular audience, and has had essays published in the Guardian, the New Statesman, Jacobin, N+1, Book Forum, and Boston Review. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what's real?” & “who matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube. 00:00 Clips! 01:04 Welcome 02:58 Troy's Intro - Half-Earth Socialism "what does it look like to have an ecologically stable society... a good relationship with other beings on this planet and also to ensure a good life for everyone" - The Half-Earth Socialism computer game & maybe a future board-game 05:44 What's Real? - #Ecosocialism and #neoliberalism in conversation with each other - Growing up in a fairly conservative but non-religious household - Being a Young Tory, reading Milton Friedman - In early 20's "a crisis of faith in terms of this conservative worldview" due to the Iraq war and the 2008 financial crisis - Reading Marx and New Left Review - Exploring the environmental crisis - A sensitive child, then a toxic masculinity phase as a teenager (callous, eating meat, machismo), then, alongside the crisis of faith in conservatism, a wish to return to childhood passion for nature - Gravitating towards ecosocialism - Didn't "grow up with red diapers" (being brought up in a left wing family) so feeling inoculated as knows the political right very well as "I came from the right to the left" - #greenwashing measures "I wanted to understand where these ideas had come from... no one had done an intellectual history of these things" - Challenging the common leftist view that the right & neoliberalism doesn't have any real intellectual depth "I took it more seriously than most socialists" - "I thought the left should have more concrete ideas of their own... match the rigour of these conservative ones" - "'We'll figure it out after the revolution'... that's not enough" - Mother who ran for the Green party in elections - Not religious now - "Sceptical of thinking that there's one true path... one true way of relating to each other or to animals"... relativism, Kuhnian (paradigms)? - The neoliberal view of the market as the optimal information processor - Being rational but also appreciating the spiritual/subliminal/subjective? "that's why I'm a big bird watcher" - The "spark bird" that gets you into #birdwatching - #deleuze "Becoming animal" vs. #Haraway's notion of "becoming with" 17:50 What Matters? 27:33 Who Matters? 54:15 A Better World? 01:29:55 Follow Troy ...and much more. Full show notes at Sentientism.info. Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info. Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form. Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. The biggest so far is here on FaceBook. Come join us there! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sentientism/message
Our hosts, Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel, sat down with Dominic Boyer to talk about his new book, No More Fossils, which appeared just last year (2023) from the University of Minnesota's "Forerunners" series. We talked at length about his book, its gestation in basic questions about how to divest from fossil energy and fossil culture, and the grounds for optimism about our future. In a wide ranging discussion, we also talked about utopia, our investment in memoir and place-based writing, the importance of affect and anxiety in thinking about climate, and the fiction, scholarship, and activism that gives us inspiration. Some show notes: we talked about other work by Dominic (including his books Hyposubjects and Energopolitics); other works on energy and ecocriticism (including Patricia Jaeger's column "Literature in the Ages of Wood, Tallow, Coal, Whale Oil, Gasoline, Atomic Power, and Other Energy Sources"; Cara New Dagget's The Birth of Energy; Allen MacDuffie's Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination; and Heidi Scott's Fuel: An Ecocritical History; and Barbara Leckie's Climate Change: Interrupted); talked about matriarchal collectives and the show Station Eleven; and fiction including Kim Stanley Robinson's Pacific Edge, and Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward; and William Morris's News from Nowhere; and finally, Osaka University's "Fragmentary Institute of Comparative Timelines," and Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass's book, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change, and Pandemics. It was awesome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Our hosts, Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel, sat down with Dominic Boyer to talk about his new book, No More Fossils, which appeared just last year (2023) from the University of Minnesota's "Forerunners" series. We talked at length about his book, its gestation in basic questions about how to divest from fossil energy and fossil culture, and the grounds for optimism about our future. In a wide ranging discussion, we also talked about utopia, our investment in memoir and place-based writing, the importance of affect and anxiety in thinking about climate, and the fiction, scholarship, and activism that gives us inspiration. Some show notes: we talked about other work by Dominic (including his books Hyposubjects and Energopolitics); other works on energy and ecocriticism (including Patricia Jaeger's column "Literature in the Ages of Wood, Tallow, Coal, Whale Oil, Gasoline, Atomic Power, and Other Energy Sources"; Cara New Dagget's The Birth of Energy; Allen MacDuffie's Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination; and Heidi Scott's Fuel: An Ecocritical History; and Barbara Leckie's Climate Change: Interrupted); talked about matriarchal collectives and the show Station Eleven; and fiction including Kim Stanley Robinson's Pacific Edge, and Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward; and William Morris's News from Nowhere; and finally, Osaka University's "Fragmentary Institute of Comparative Timelines," and Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass's book, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change, and Pandemics. It was awesome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory
Our hosts, Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel, sat down with Dominic Boyer to talk about his new book, No More Fossils, which appeared just last year (2023) from the University of Minnesota's "Forerunners" series. We talked at length about his book, its gestation in basic questions about how to divest from fossil energy and fossil culture, and the grounds for optimism about our future. In a wide ranging discussion, we also talked about utopia, our investment in memoir and place-based writing, the importance of affect and anxiety in thinking about climate, and the fiction, scholarship, and activism that gives us inspiration. Some show notes: we talked about other work by Dominic (including his books Hyposubjects and Energopolitics); other works on energy and ecocriticism (including Patricia Jaeger's column "Literature in the Ages of Wood, Tallow, Coal, Whale Oil, Gasoline, Atomic Power, and Other Energy Sources"; Cara New Dagget's The Birth of Energy; Allen MacDuffie's Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination; and Heidi Scott's Fuel: An Ecocritical History; and Barbara Leckie's Climate Change: Interrupted); talked about matriarchal collectives and the show Station Eleven; and fiction including Kim Stanley Robinson's Pacific Edge, and Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward; and William Morris's News from Nowhere; and finally, Osaka University's "Fragmentary Institute of Comparative Timelines," and Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass's book, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change, and Pandemics. It was awesome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies
Our hosts, Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel, sat down with Dominic Boyer to talk about his new book, No More Fossils, which appeared just last year (2023) from the University of Minnesota's "Forerunners" series. We talked at length about his book, its gestation in basic questions about how to divest from fossil energy and fossil culture, and the grounds for optimism about our future. In a wide ranging discussion, we also talked about utopia, our investment in memoir and place-based writing, the importance of affect and anxiety in thinking about climate, and the fiction, scholarship, and activism that gives us inspiration. Some show notes: we talked about other work by Dominic (including his books Hyposubjects and Energopolitics); other works on energy and ecocriticism (including Patricia Jaeger's column "Literature in the Ages of Wood, Tallow, Coal, Whale Oil, Gasoline, Atomic Power, and Other Energy Sources"; Cara New Dagget's The Birth of Energy; Allen MacDuffie's Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination; and Heidi Scott's Fuel: An Ecocritical History; and Barbara Leckie's Climate Change: Interrupted); talked about matriarchal collectives and the show Station Eleven; and fiction including Kim Stanley Robinson's Pacific Edge, and Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward; and William Morris's News from Nowhere; and finally, Osaka University's "Fragmentary Institute of Comparative Timelines," and Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass's book, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change, and Pandemics. It was awesome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology
Our hosts, Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel, sat down with Dominic Boyer to talk about his new book, No More Fossils, which appeared just last year (2023) from the University of Minnesota's "Forerunners" series. We talked at length about his book, its gestation in basic questions about how to divest from fossil energy and fossil culture, and the grounds for optimism about our future. In a wide ranging discussion, we also talked about utopia, our investment in memoir and place-based writing, the importance of affect and anxiety in thinking about climate, and the fiction, scholarship, and activism that gives us inspiration. Some show notes: we talked about other work by Dominic (including his books Hyposubjects and Energopolitics); other works on energy and ecocriticism (including Patricia Jaeger's column "Literature in the Ages of Wood, Tallow, Coal, Whale Oil, Gasoline, Atomic Power, and Other Energy Sources"; Cara New Dagget's The Birth of Energy; Allen MacDuffie's Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination; and Heidi Scott's Fuel: An Ecocritical History; and Barbara Leckie's Climate Change: Interrupted); talked about matriarchal collectives and the show Station Eleven; and fiction including Kim Stanley Robinson's Pacific Edge, and Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward; and William Morris's News from Nowhere; and finally, Osaka University's "Fragmentary Institute of Comparative Timelines," and Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass's book, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change, and Pandemics. It was awesome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society
As the world rushes headlong into the climate emergency, what might a liberatory approach look like, that would avert ecological disaster while making another world possible? Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese have laid out one vision for eco-socialism that takes on the difficult question of how to plan society in a radically different way. (Encore presentation.) Resources: Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics Verso, 2022 Half-Earth Socialism: A Planetary Planning Game The post Half-Earth Socialism appeared first on KPFA.
Die imperiale Lebensweise steckt in der Krise. Welche Entwicklungstendenzen zeichnen sich ab? Shownotes Ulrich Brand (UNI Wien): https://politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/brand/ Ulrich bei X: https://twitter.com/uli_brand Brand, Ulrich und Wissen, Markus. Kapitalismus am Limit.Öko-imperiale Spannungen, umkämpfte Krisenpolitik und solidarische Perspektiven. 2024. oekom Verlag: https://www.oekom.de/buch/kapitalismus-am-limit-9783987260650 Brand, Ulrich und Wissen, Markus. Imperiale Lebensweisen. Zur Ausbeutung von Mensch und Natur im globalen Kapitalismus. 2017. oekom Verlag: https://www.oekom.de/buch/imperiale-lebensweise-9783865818430 Weiter Shownotes Markus Wissen am IPE Berlin: https://www.ipe-berlin.org/institut/mitglieder/markus-wissen/ Antonio Gramsci (Monoskop englisch): https://monoskop.org/Antonio_Gramsci Globaler Norden und Globaler Süden (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung): https://www.fes.de/wissen/globaler-sueden Neue Weltwirtschaftsordnung (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Weltwirtschaftsordnung Dekolonisation (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekolonisation Neue internationale Arbeitsteilung (Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon): https://wirtschaftslexikon.gabler.de/definition/neue-internationale-arbeitsteilung-38162 Branko Milanović (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branko_Milanovi%C4%87 Ulrike Hermann (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrike_Herrmann Kollapsologie (Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon): https://wirtschaftslexikon.gabler.de/definition/kollapsologie-122706 Servigne, Pablo und Stevens, Raphaël. Wie alles zusammenbrechen kann. Handbuch der Kollapsologie. 2022. Mandelbaum: https://www.mandelbaum.at/buecher/pablo-servigne-raphael-stevens/wie-alles-zusammenbrechen-kann/ Keynesianismus (Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon): https://wirtschaftslexikon.gabler.de/definition/keynesianismus-38052 John Atkinson Hobson (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Atkinson_Hobson Mann, Geoff and Wainwright, Joel. Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future. 2018. Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/products/520-climate-leviathan Subalternität (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subalternit%C3%A4t Birgit Sauer (Uni Wien): https://homepage.univie.ac.at/birgit.sauer/wordpress/ Otto Penz (Uni Wien): https://homepage.univie.ac.at/birgit.sauer/wordpress/team/otto-penz/?lang=en Wolfram Schaffar (Uni Passau): https://www.sobi.uni-passau.de/entwicklungspolitik Cara New Daggett (Website): https://www.caranewdaggett.com/ New Daggett, Cara. Petromaskulinität. Fossile Energieträger und autoritäres Begehren. 2023. Matthes & Seitz Berlin: https://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/petromaskulinitaet.html Heteronormativ (Deutsches Institut für Sozialwirtschaft): https://echte-vielfalt.de/aufklaerung-und-bildung/wortschatz/was-ist-eigentlich-heteronormativitaet/ Slavoj Žižek (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek Der europäischer Grüne Deal (Europäische Kommission): https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_de Ökologischer Imperialismus: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96kologischer_Imperialismus Alberto Ángel Fernández (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_%C3%81ngel_Fern%C3%A1ndez Krauss, Martin. Pessimismus des Verstands. 2001. in Jungleworld: https://jungle.world/artikel/2001/09/pessimismus-des-verstands Fridays for Future (Website): https://fridaysforfuture.de/ Ende Gelände (Website): https://www.ende-gelaende.org/ Pacto EcoSocial e Intercultural del Sur (Website auf Spanisch): https://pactoecosocialdelsur.com/ Walden Bello (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_Bello Bello, Walden. De-Globalisierung: Widerstand gegen die neue Weltordnung. Hrsg. Oliver Nachtwey und Peter Strotmann. 2005. VSA Verlag (pdf): https://www.vsa-verlag.de/uploads/media/Bello_De-Globalisierung.pdf Veit, Alex und Fuchs, Daniel. Eine gerechte Weltwirtschaftsordnung? Die »New International Economic Order« und die Zukunft der Süd-Nord-Beziehungen. 2023. Transcript Verlag: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783839468814/html Latour, Bruno und Schulz, Nikolaj. Zur Entstehung einer ökologischen Klasse: Ein Memorandum. 2022. Suhrkamp: https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/zur-entstehung-einer-oekologischen-klasse-t-9783518029794 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (House of Representatives Website): https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/ Ocasio-Cortez Green New Deal (Campaign Website): https://www.ocasiocortez.com/green-new-deal Der Klimarat (Website): https://klimarat.org/ Empfehlungen des Klimarats (pdf): https://klimarat.org/wp-content/uploads/Klimarat-Endbericht-WEB.pdf Greenpeace (Website): https://www.greenpeace.de/ Nachhaltigkeitsbeirat Uni Wien: https://nachhaltigkeit.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/nachhaltigkeitsbeirat/ Vogl, Joseph und Wolf, Burkhardt. Handbuch Literatur & Ökonomie.2020. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110516821/html Vogl, Joseph. 2010. Das Gespenst des Kapitals. Zürich: Diaphenes: https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/das-gespenst-des-kapitals-198 Lukas Oberndorfer (Akademie für sozialen & ökologischen Umbau Wien): https://sozialundoekologisch.org/ Arbeiterkammer Wien (Website): https://wien.arbeiterkammer.at/index.html Nicos Poulantzas. Staatstheorie: Politischer Überbau, Ideologie, Autoritärer Etatismus. 2002. VSA Verlag: https://www.vsa-verlag.de/nc/detail/artikel/staatstheorie-1/ BUND (Website): https://www.bund.net/ Brand, Ulrich. Gegen-Hegemonie: Perspektiven globalisierungskritischer Strategien. 2005. über Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (pdf): https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/ABC/ABC_der_Alternativen_Gegen-Hegemonie-Brand.pdf Klaus Dörre (Website): https://klaus-doerre.de/ Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary. Edited by Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, and Alberto Acosta. 2019. Tulika Books: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/pluriverse/9788193732984 Buchter, Heike. Ölförderung in Ecuador: Wo jeder Hektar unbezahlbar ist. 2023. Zeit Online: https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2023-08/ecuador-oelfoerderung-yasuni-nationalpark-referendum Theodor W. 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For November, we discuss Ten Myths about Israel by Ilan Pappe! We discuss our own misconceptions and myths we have about Israel and Palestine, socialism and Zionism, an interesting discussion about Hamas, one state solution and how we can support the Pro-Palestinian side. December - Half-Earth Socialism by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese January - How to Read Lacan by Zizkek
We talk to utopian authors Troy Vettese & Drew Pendergrass about Half Earth Socialism, their vision for an egalitarian and ecological future. A future that rejects solar geoengineering and nuclear power in...
As the world rushes headlong into the climate emergency, what might a liberatory approach look like, that would avert ecological disaster while making another world possible? Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese have laid out one vision for eco-socialism that takes on the difficult question of how to plan society in a radically different way. (Encore presentation.) Resources: Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics Verso, 2022 Half-Earth Socialism: A Planetary Planning Game The post Half-Earth Socialism appeared first on KPFA.
Matt Huber on climate change as class war and how to build socialism through class struggle as climate politics. Future Histories International Find all English episodes of Future Histories here: https://futurehistories-international.com/ and subscribe to the Future Histories International RSS-Feed (English episodes only) Shownotes Matthew T. Huber (Syracuse University): https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/directory/matthew-t-huber Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthuber78 Huber, Matthew T. 2022. Climate change as class war: Building socialism on a warming planet. Verso Books.: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/775-climate-change-as-class-war Huber, Matthew T. 2013. Lifeblood: Oil, freedom, and the forces of capital. University of Minnesota Press.: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/lifeblood Conference - The Great Transition 2023: https://thegreattransition.net/ Weitere Shownotes Planning for Entropy. 2022. Democratic economic planning, social metabolism and the environment. Science & Society, 86(2), 291-313.: https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.291 Research Center on Social Innovation and Transformation: http://innovationsocialeusp.ca/en/crits? http://innovationsocialeusp.ca/en/crits/recherches/democratic-economic-planning? Simon Tremblay-Pepin (Saint-Paul University): https://ustpaul.ca/index.php?mod=employee&id=1195 Elisa Loncón (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisa_Lonc%C3%B3n Jason Hickel: https://www.jasonhickel.org/ https://twitter.com/jasonhickel/status/1653743870453116930 Christoph Sorg: https://christophsorg.wordpress.com/ Elena Hofferberth: https://twitter.com/e_hofferberth?lang=de Matthias Schmelzer (University of Jena): https://www.soziologie.uni-jena.de/arbeitsbereiche/mentalitaeten-im-fluss-nachwuchsgruppe/personen/dr-matthias-schmelzer Cédric Durand: https://durandcedric.wordpress.com/ Bakke, Gretchen. 2017. The Grid: The fraying wires between Americans and our energy future. Bloomsbury Publishing.: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/grid-9781632865687/ Alexandia Ocasio Cortez – The Green New Deal: https://www.ocasiocortez.com/green-new-deal Smucker, Jonathan. 2017. Hegemony how-to: A roadmap for radicals. ak Press.: https://hegemonyhowto.org/ Phillips, Leigh; Rozworski, Michal. 2018. The people's republic of walmart: How the world's biggest corporations are laying the foundation for socialism. Verso Books.: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/636-the-people-s-republic-of-walmart Phillips, Leigh; Rozworski, Michal. 2017. Planning the good Anthropocene. Jacobin Magazine.: https://jacobin.com/2017/08/planning-the-good-anthropocene Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics S02E44 | Evgeny Morozov on Discovery Beyond Competition: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e44-evgeny-morozov-on-discovery-beyond-competition/ [German] S02E40 | Raul Zelik zu grünem Sozialismus: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e40-raul-zelik-zu-gruenem-sozialismus/ S02E27 |Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e27-nick-dyer-witheford-on-biocommunism/ [German] S02E26 | Andrea Vetter zu Degrowth und Technologie: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e26-andrea-vetter-zu-degrowth-und-technologie/ S02E19 | David Laibman on Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e19-david-laibman-on-multilevel-democratic-iterative-coordination/ S02E18 | Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese on Half Earth Socialism: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e18-drew-pendergrass-and-troy-vettese-on-half-earth-socialism/ If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast or on Mastodon: @FutureHistories@mstdn.social or on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRFz38oh9RH73-pWcME6yw www.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords: #MattHuber, #Interview, #JanGroos, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #DemocraticPlanning, #ClimateChange, #Transition, #Environment, #Hegemony, #Energy, #Degrowth, #Nature, #Class, #EconomicPlanning, #Capital, #Limits, #Socialism, #ecosocialism, #communism, #Marxism, #ClassStruggle, #TheGoodAnthropocene, #ThePeoplesRepublicOfWalmart, #Verso
Today's guest, Dr Troy Vettese, is a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. He's an environmental historian who, in addition to animal studies, has expertise in energy history and environmental economics. We discuss his book Half-Earth Socialism, which was co-authored with Drew Pendergrass and published by Verso in 2022. This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by AASA, the Australasian Animal Studies Association, which you should join today. It's also brought to you by the Animal Publics book series at Sydney University Press. Take a look at their new titles!
In their new book, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics, Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese imagine a utopian future and offer a plan to get […] The post Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese on a Better Global Future appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.
Green capitalism will do nothing to reverse climate breakdown and biodiversity loss, says environmental historian Troy Vettese. In "Half-Earth Socialism" he and Drew Pendergrass lay out a radical plan to save our future: a vision for eco-socialism that ends the ecological crisis and brings the good life to all.
Doug speaks with Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass, authors of Half-Earth Socialism, about their scheme to save the world.Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Behind the News, 10/13/22 - guests: Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass on Half-Earth Socialism - Doug Henwood
As the world rushes headlong into the climate emergency, what might a liberatory approach look like, that would avert ecological disaster while making another world possible? Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese have laid out one vision for eco-socialism that takes on the difficult question of how to plan society in a radically different way. Resources: Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics Verso, 2022 Half-Earth Socialism: A Planetary Planning Game The post Half-Earth Socialism appeared first on KPFA.
Cymene and Dominic talk about hauling ice, champagne socialism and the mystery of Viennetta cakes on this week's intro. Then (16:07) we are joined by Troy Vettese, an environmental historian, and Drew Pendergrass, an environmental engineer, to talk about their bold and imaginative new book, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics (Verso 2022, https://www.versobooks.com/books/3818-hal). We begin with the value of thinking in impractical ways and how utopian socialists past like Edward Bellamy, William Morris and Otto Neurath inspired this project. We discuss how high growth expectations have bedeviled planning in the past and talk about the flaws in the utopia of automated luxury socialism. Is capitalism an inherently irrational system? Does planning have irrational tendencies too? We cover where the idea to make a game version of the book came from (https://play.half.earth). We move from there to what the Left could stand to learn from the tactics of the neoliberal revolution, the necessity of utopian imagination for mass organizing, how intellectuals underestimate the readiness of the working class for change and much, much, more. Also please check out Drew and Troy's Noema essay based on the book at: https://www.noemamag.com/planning-an-eco-socialist-utopia/
In this episode, Troy Vettese talks with us about neoliberalism. It turns out the neoliberals aren't actually a secret cabal of dastardly villains, but a group of right wing public intellectuals who want to be taken seriously by the academic establishment, and who have been remarkably successful in reshaping the world in their image. In the episode, Troy references the work of Quinn Slobodian, Philip Mirowski, and Dieter Plehwe on the history of neoliberalism. They have written a book together on the Nine Lives of Neoliberalism (Verso, 2020). He also points out that the Mont Pelerin Society, the “secret society” of the neoliberals, which isn't so secret at all, has a website: www.montpelerin.org Troy recently co-authored a book with Drew Pendergrass called Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics (Verso, 2022). They also made a game, in collaboration with some super cool game designers, where you can make your own plan to avoid ecological catastrophe. You can find it at play.half.earth. Eco-Marxists are a rare breed. Troy Vettese is an environmental historian, who writes about animal studies and energy history in addition to penning proposals to save the world. He received his PhD in 2019 from NYU and is currently a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute. He also has very curly hair. This episode's image is a diagram in ISOTYPE, a picture language popularized by a socialist planner named Otto Neurath, who appears in the book and the episode. It is taken from a statistical world atlas made by Neurath, held by the David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries, and available in a digital form through archive.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
In this episode, Troy Vettese talks with us about neoliberalism. It turns out the neoliberals aren't actually a secret cabal of dastardly villains, but a group of right wing public intellectuals who want to be taken seriously by the academic establishment, and who have been remarkably successful in reshaping the world in their image. In the episode, Troy references the work of Quinn Slobodian, Philip Mirowski, and Dieter Plehwe on the history of neoliberalism. They have written a book together on the Nine Lives of Neoliberalism (Verso, 2020). He also points out that the Mont Pelerin Society, the “secret society” of the neoliberals, which isn't so secret at all, has a website: www.montpelerin.org Troy recently co-authored a book with Drew Pendergrass called Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics (Verso, 2022). They also made a game, in collaboration with some super cool game designers, where you can make your own plan to avoid ecological catastrophe. You can find it at play.half.earth. Eco-Marxists are a rare breed. Troy Vettese is an environmental historian, who writes about animal studies and energy history in addition to penning proposals to save the world. He received his PhD in 2019 from NYU and is currently a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute. He also has very curly hair. This episode's image is a diagram in ISOTYPE, a picture language popularized by a socialist planner named Otto Neurath, who appears in the book and the episode. It is taken from a statistical world atlas made by Neurath, held by the David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries, and available in a digital form through archive.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode, Troy Vettese talks with us about neoliberalism. It turns out the neoliberals aren't actually a secret cabal of dastardly villains, but a group of right wing public intellectuals who want to be taken seriously by the academic establishment, and who have been remarkably successful in reshaping the world in their image. In the episode, Troy references the work of Quinn Slobodian, Philip Mirowski, and Dieter Plehwe on the history of neoliberalism. They have written a book together on the Nine Lives of Neoliberalism (Verso, 2020). He also points out that the Mont Pelerin Society, the “secret society” of the neoliberals, which isn't so secret at all, has a website: www.montpelerin.org Troy recently co-authored a book with Drew Pendergrass called Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics (Verso, 2022). They also made a game, in collaboration with some super cool game designers, where you can make your own plan to avoid ecological catastrophe. You can find it at play.half.earth. Eco-Marxists are a rare breed. Troy Vettese is an environmental historian, who writes about animal studies and energy history in addition to penning proposals to save the world. He received his PhD in 2019 from NYU and is currently a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute. He also has very curly hair. This episode's image is a diagram in ISOTYPE, a picture language popularized by a socialist planner named Otto Neurath, who appears in the book and the episode. It is taken from a statistical world atlas made by Neurath, held by the David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries, and available in a digital form through archive.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science
In this episode, Troy Vettese talks with us about neoliberalism. It turns out the neoliberals aren't actually a secret cabal of dastardly villains, but a group of right wing public intellectuals who want to be taken seriously by the academic establishment, and who have been remarkably successful in reshaping the world in their image. In the episode, Troy references the work of Quinn Slobodian, Philip Mirowski, and Dieter Plehwe on the history of neoliberalism. They have written a book together on the Nine Lives of Neoliberalism (Verso, 2020). He also points out that the Mont Pelerin Society, the “secret society” of the neoliberals, which isn't so secret at all, has a website: www.montpelerin.org Troy recently co-authored a book with Drew Pendergrass called Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics (Verso, 2022). They also made a game, in collaboration with some super cool game designers, where you can make your own plan to avoid ecological catastrophe. You can find it at play.half.earth. Eco-Marxists are a rare breed. Troy Vettese is an environmental historian, who writes about animal studies and energy history in addition to penning proposals to save the world. He received his PhD in 2019 from NYU and is currently a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute. He also has very curly hair. This episode's image is a diagram in ISOTYPE, a picture language popularized by a socialist planner named Otto Neurath, who appears in the book and the episode. It is taken from a statistical world atlas made by Neurath, held by the David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries, and available in a digital form through archive.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory
In this episode, Troy Vettese talks with us about neoliberalism. It turns out the neoliberals aren't actually a secret cabal of dastardly villains, but a group of right wing public intellectuals who want to be taken seriously by the academic establishment, and who have been remarkably successful in reshaping the world in their image. In the episode, Troy references the work of Quinn Slobodian, Philip Mirowski, and Dieter Plehwe on the history of neoliberalism. They have written a book together on the Nine Lives of Neoliberalism (Verso, 2020). He also points out that the Mont Pelerin Society, the “secret society” of the neoliberals, which isn't so secret at all, has a website: www.montpelerin.org Troy recently co-authored a book with Drew Pendergrass called Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics (Verso, 2022). They also made a game, in collaboration with some super cool game designers, where you can make your own plan to avoid ecological catastrophe. You can find it at play.half.earth. Eco-Marxists are a rare breed. Troy Vettese is an environmental historian, who writes about animal studies and energy history in addition to penning proposals to save the world. He received his PhD in 2019 from NYU and is currently a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute. He also has very curly hair. This episode's image is a diagram in ISOTYPE, a picture language popularized by a socialist planner named Otto Neurath, who appears in the book and the episode. It is taken from a statistical world atlas made by Neurath, held by the David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries, and available in a digital form through archive.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies
In this episode, Troy Vettese talks with us about neoliberalism. It turns out the neoliberals aren't actually a secret cabal of dastardly villains, but a group of right wing public intellectuals who want to be taken seriously by the academic establishment, and who have been remarkably successful in reshaping the world in their image. In the episode, Troy references the work of Quinn Slobodian, Philip Mirowski, and Dieter Plehwe on the history of neoliberalism. They have written a book together on the Nine Lives of Neoliberalism (Verso, 2020). He also points out that the Mont Pelerin Society, the “secret society” of the neoliberals, which isn't so secret at all, has a website: www.montpelerin.org Troy recently co-authored a book with Drew Pendergrass called Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics (Verso, 2022). They also made a game, in collaboration with some super cool game designers, where you can make your own plan to avoid ecological catastrophe. You can find it at play.half.earth. Eco-Marxists are a rare breed. Troy Vettese is an environmental historian, who writes about animal studies and energy history in addition to penning proposals to save the world. He received his PhD in 2019 from NYU and is currently a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute. He also has very curly hair. This episode's image is a diagram in ISOTYPE, a picture language popularized by a socialist planner named Otto Neurath, who appears in the book and the episode. It is taken from a statistical world atlas made by Neurath, held by the David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries, and available in a digital form through archive.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history
Rundown In this episode, Mexie talks with Marxist, vegan academic and activist, Dr. Troy Vettese, about his new co-authored book (with Drew Pendergrass), Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan To Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change, and Pandemics. We start by discussing the importance of utopian socialism and reinvigorating our radical creativity to be daring enough […]
One of the most fascinating and thought-provoking books of our time is Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics (Verso) by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass. The book asks the question: how could we actually have a future for Earth that is both green and socialist? The authors dive into the history of attempts to plan the economy, unearthing useful insights from neglected thinkers like Otto Neurath (developer of the very cool Isotype system). They combine utopian fiction and serious scientific analysis to offer a vision of what humans might be capable of if we put our know-how to work. It's very rare these days to have serious scientific thinkers trying to imagine the path to radical futures, so Pendergrass and Vettese have given us a wonderful gift that all leftists should debate and discuss. The book has an eclectic mix of influences, as the authors write:Half-Earth Socialism draws on ecology, energy studies, epidemiology, biogeography, Chilean cybernetics, history, eighteenth-century philosophy, Soviet mathematics, the socialist calculation debate, Hayekian epistemology, cutting-edge climate modelling, feminist sci-fi, and the forgotten tradition of utopian socialism.Vettese and Pendergrass have even designed a free computer game to go along with their book, in which YOU can attempt to plan the entire global economy, reducing emissions and the destruction of life while keeping the population happy. It's like SimCity but with the whole world, and instead of your task being to build a city it's to maintain a viable eco-socialist global government. GOOD LUCK!
This week, Grace speaks to Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass about their book Half-Earth Socialism. They discuss the problems with proposed solutions to climate breakdown like geoengineering, how neoliberals are coping with the recognition that state planning will be necessary to tackle climate breakdown, and how we can build coalitions to make sure that planning is democratic.Thanks to producer Sarah Hurd for filling in this week and to Left Book Club for making this episode possible.
In collaboration with utopian collective Trust, designer Son La Pham (he/him) and developer Francis Tseng (he/they) created Half Earth Socialism (2022), a browser game companion to Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass's book of the same name. As part of the game's launch, Son La and Francis joined me on the show to discuss how the collaboration began, the challenge of building a global planning simulator as a browser game, and the importance of going beyond raw calculations to allow players to become emotionally invested. You can play Half Earth Socialism for free and purchase the book from Verso. You can learn more about Son La Pham and Francis Tseng on their personal sites. Good Things to Share Son La: the sports park with the green roof (you know the one) where baby lambs mow the lawn. Francis: being in Berlin and appreciating how walkable/bikable the city is. Things Discussed Half Earth Socialism (game), Half Earth Socialism (book), and Half Earth Socialism (political theory) Trust Reigns (Nerial, 2016) Into the Breach (Subset Games, 2018) Kritiqal Care is produced by me, Nate Kiernan, with music by Desired. It's available on Pocket Casts, Apple Podcasts, and wherever else you get podcasts. If you enjoyed the show, consider sharing it with a loved one and supporting Kritiqal on Ko-Fi.
Paris Marx is joined by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese to discuss the environmental crises of climate change and mass extinction we face, and why taking them seriously while providing for everyone requires a radical change to how we structure society.Drew Pendergrass is a PhD candidate in environmental engineering at Harvard University and Troy Vettese is an environmental historian and a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute. They are the co-authors of Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics. Follow them on Twitter at @pendergrassdrew and @TroyVettese.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.Also mentioned in this episode:Earth is currently undergoing its sixth major extinction, due to the actions of humans on the planet.The most recent IPCC report looked at demand-side solutions to the climate crisis.The meat industry is responsible for double the emissions of plant-based foods, as well as for an enormous amount of water and 80% of all agricultural land.Aaron Benanav is the author of Automation and the Future of Work.There is also a Half-Earth Socialism videogame on half.earth.Support the show
We’re entering an era of climate disaster and mass extinction, yet most of the proposed solutions to our predicament amount to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. What we need, propose environmental scholars Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese, is a totally different vision of life on Earth. Joining Aaron Bastani, the authors of Half-Earth Socialism […]
Emma hosts Drew Pendergrass, doctoral student in Environmental Engineering at Harvard University, and Troy Vettese, environmental historian at the European University Institute, to discuss their recent book Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future From Extinction, Climate Change, and Pandemics, on putting together a socialist model for a society that operates without economic markets and with respect for ecological theory, climate science, and urban and land-use planning. Drew and Troy begin by situating their work as an attempt to think through what socialism does, and can mean when attempting to tackle modern questions and social issues, with a particular focus on conservation. They then dive into the specific systems and infrastructures that would be necessary in such a society, from mass investment in public transportation, greater food choice to support a transition away from industrial husbandry, and a commitment to re-wilding and building up nature preserves from around 10-15% of land to around 50%, before looking at why socialism is necessary as the overarching system supporting this world. Next, Emma, Drew, and Troy look deeper at the history of conservation and the ideologies that drive it, first looking at their work as a critique building off of E.O. Wilson and completely changing our relationship to land-use as we try to undo our creation of a sixth mass extinction, before they jump back to the 1700s and the major schools of thought around our relationship to nature – including the influence of Hegel and the humanization of nature into utopia, and the Malthusian social Darwinism that sees “positive” checks (mass deaths) on population numbers as central to humanity's continued existence. They also touch on how the role of conservationism, particularly today, almost entirely serves the realm of philanthropy, as they dive into prevailing narratives and models around tackling the climate crisis we face, and how they often act contrary to the ecological crisis, looking at nuclear power and carbon capture technology specifically, before wrapping up by discussing their own perspectives on the issue, and the video game attached to their work that lets people practice building their own environmental models for the future, and see what worlds they could support. Emma also covers a Florida judge's overturning of the federal mask mandate on public transit and planes, Israel's continued air raids on Gaza at the height of Ramadan, and Ron DeSantis banning textbooks for discussing social-emotional learning. And in the Fun Half: Emma takes a call with Ken from Charleston as they unpack today's interview, before watching Eric Bolling take Ilhan Omar's suggestion of praying on an airplane as disrespect towards good Christians, and Fox's the Five dive behind who's really in charge of Biden, refusing to walk on eggshells as they daringly analyze the Easter Bunny's role at this weekend's White House Celebrations. She also touches on Alex Jones's clinging to Tucker Carlson as his walls of conspiracy crumble around him, Carter from NorCal discusses the importance of the collective element of collective bargaining, even when outside of a union, and a Swedish caller dives into this weekend's Quran book burning and the corruption of the Swedish police. 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My guests on this episode of Digging in the Dirt are The authors Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass who have written a new book entitled Half - Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics. We discuss what the issues are that face the planet and humanity and how we are going to deal with the very real crises that are coming our way. Troy Vettese is an environmental historian who specializes in environmental economics, animal studies, and energy history. Troy writes on a wide array of environmental topics for a popular audience, and has had essays published in the Guardian, Boston Review and the New Statesman, among others. Drew Pendergrass is a PhD student in Environmental Engineering at Harvard University. His current research uses satellite, aircraft and surface observations of the environment to correct supercomputer models of the atmosphere. His environmental writing has been published in Harper's, the Guardian and Current Affairs.
With "Half Earth Socialism" Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese want to provide a plan to save the earth and bring the good life to all. Collaborative Podcast Transcription If you would like to support Future Histories by contributing to the collaborative transcription of episodes, please contact us at: transkription@futurehistories.today (German) Kollaborative Podcast-Transkription FAQ: shorturl.at/eL578 Shownotes Drew Pendergrass‘ Website: http://www.drewpendergrass.com/ Drew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pendergrassdrew Troy Vettese at the European University Institute: https://www.eui.eu/people?id=troy-vettese Troy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TroyVettese Pendergrass, Drew and Vettese, Troy. 2022. "Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics“. Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3818-half-earth-socialism Further material: Wiki on Bioenergy with Carbon Capture & Storage (BECCS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergy_with_carbon_capture_and_storage Wiki on Thomas Malthus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Malthus Wiki on Malthusianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism Wiki on Ludwig Von Mises: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises Otto Neurath at Monoskop: https://monoskop.org/Otto_Neurath Isotype (picture language developed by Otto Neurath): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotype_(picture_language) Wiki on Leonid Kantorovich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kantorovich Cockshott, Paul. 2010. „Von Mises, Kantorovich and in-natura calculation.“ In European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies Intervention 7(1): 167-199: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46547387_Von_Mises_Kantorovich_and_in-natura_calculation Wiki on Edward Osborne Wilson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson Dice Model by William Nordhaus: https://williamnordhaus.com/dicerice-models Wiki on Stafford Beer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer Stafford Beer at Monoskop: https://monoskop.org/Stafford_Beer Wiki on Viable System Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_system_model Medina, Eden. 2011. "Cybernetic revolutionaries: technology and politics in Allende's Chile". Mit Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries "Designing Freedom" - The 1973 CBC Massey Lectures by Stafford Beer [audio]: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-designing-freedom-1.2946819 "Designing Freedom" - The 1973 CBC Massey Lectures by Stafford Beer [pdf via Internet Archive]: https://archive.org/details/designingfreedom00beer/mode/2up Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/ Wiki on the State Planning Committee (Gosplan): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosplan Wiki on János Kornai: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_Kornai Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics: S02E11 | James Muldoon on Platform Socialism: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e11-james-muldoon-on-platform-socialism/ S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/ S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/ [German] S01E51 | Timo Daum zur unsichtbaren Hand des Plan: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e51-timo-daum-zur-unsichtbaren-hand-des-plans/ S01E45 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism (part 2/2): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e45-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-2-2/ S01E44 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism (part 1/2): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e44-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-1-2/ [German] S01E19 | Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e19-jan-philipp-dapprich-zu-sozialistischer-planwirtschaft/ S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e16-richard-barbrook-on-imaginary-futures/ If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? 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With "Half Earth Socialism" Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese want to provide a plan to save the earth and bring the good life to all.Collaborative Podcast TranscriptionIf you would like to support Future Histories by contributing to the collaborative transcription of episodes, please contact us at:transkription@futurehistories.today(German) Kollaborative Podcast-Transkription FAQ:shorturl.at/eL578 ShownotesDrew Pendergrass‘ Website:http://www.drewpendergrass.com/Drew on Twitter:https://twitter.com/pendergrassdrewTroy Vettese at the European University Institute:https://www.eui.eu/people?id=troy-vetteseTroy on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TroyVettesePendergrass, Drew and Vettese, Troy. 2022. "Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics“. Verso Books:https://www.versobooks.com/books/3818-half-earth-socialismFurther material:Wiki on Bioenergy with Carbon Capture & Storage (BECCS):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergy_with_carbon_capture_and_storageWiki on Thomas Malthus:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_MalthusWiki on Malthusianism:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MalthusianismWiki on Ludwig Von Mises:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises Otto Neurath at Monoskop:https://monoskop.org/Otto_NeurathIsotype (picture language developed by Otto Neurath):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotype_(picture_language)Wiki on Leonid Kantorovich:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_KantorovichCockshott, Paul. 2010. „Von Mises, Kantorovich and in-natura calculation.“ In European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies Intervention 7(1): 167-199:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46547387_Von_Mises_Kantorovich_and_in-natura_calculationWiki on Edward Osborne Wilson:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._WilsonDice Model by William Nordhaus:https://williamnordhaus.com/dicerice-modelsWiki on Stafford Beer:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_BeerStafford Beer at Monoskop:https://monoskop.org/Stafford_BeerWiki on Viable System Model:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_system_modelMedina, Eden. 2011. "Cybernetic revolutionaries: technology and politics in Allende's Chile". Mit Press:https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries"Designing Freedom" - The 1973 CBC Massey Lectures by Stafford Beer [audio]:https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-designing-freedom-1.2946819"Designing Freedom" - The 1973 CBC Massey Lectures by Stafford Beer [pdf via Internet Archive]:https://archive.org/details/designingfreedom00beer/mode/2upIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report:https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/ Wiki on the State Planning Committee (Gosplan):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GosplanWiki on János Kornai:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_KornaiFurther Future Histories Episodes on related topics:S02E11 | James Muldoon on Platform Socialism:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e11-james-muldoon-on-platform-socialism/S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/[German] S01E51 | Timo Daum zur unsichtbaren Hand des Plan:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e51-timo-daum-zur-unsichtbaren-hand-des-plans/S01E45 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism (part 2/2):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e45-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-2-2/S01E44 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism (part 1/2):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e44-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-1-2/[German] S01E19 | Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e19-jan-philipp-dapprich-zu-sozialistischer-planwirtschaft/ S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e16-richard-barbrook-on-imaginary-futures/ If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories):https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastor on Reddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/or on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRFz38oh9RH73-pWcME6ywwww.futurehistories.todayEpisode Keywords:#Half-Earth, #DrewPendergrass #TroyVettese #JanGroos, #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #Interview, #Socialism, #Planning, #SystemChange, #Capitalism, #Degrowth, #Democracy, #EnvironmentalCrisis, #EcologicalLimits, #Ecosocialism, #Climatemodel, #In-naturaCalculation, #LinearProgramming, #Cybernetics, #OttoNeurath, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning
With "Half Earth Socialism" Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese want to provide a plan to save the earth and bring the good life to all.Collaborative Podcast TranscriptionIf you would like to support Future Histories by contributing to the collaborative transcription of episodes, please contact us at:transkription@futurehistories.today(German) Kollaborative Podcast-Transkription FAQ:shorturl.at/eL578 ShownotesDrew Pendergrass‘ Website:http://www.drewpendergrass.com/Drew on Twitter:https://twitter.com/pendergrassdrewTroy Vettese at the European University Institute:https://www.eui.eu/people?id=troy-vetteseTroy on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TroyVettesePendergrass, Drew and Vettese, Troy. 2022. "Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics“. Verso Books:https://www.versobooks.com/books/3818-half-earth-socialismFurther material:Wiki on Bioenergy with Carbon Capture & Storage (BECCS):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergy_with_carbon_capture_and_storageWiki on Thomas Malthus:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_MalthusWiki on Malthusianism:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MalthusianismWiki on Ludwig Von Mises:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises Otto Neurath at Monoskop:https://monoskop.org/Otto_NeurathIsotype (picture language developed by Otto Neurath):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotype_(picture_language)Wiki on Leonid Kantorovich:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_KantorovichCockshott, Paul. 2010. „Von Mises, Kantorovich and in-natura calculation.“ In European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies Intervention 7(1): 167-199:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46547387_Von_Mises_Kantorovich_and_in-natura_calculationWiki on Edward Osborne Wilson:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._WilsonDice Model by William Nordhaus:https://williamnordhaus.com/dicerice-modelsWiki on Stafford Beer:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_BeerStafford Beer at Monoskop:https://monoskop.org/Stafford_BeerWiki on Viable System Model:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_system_modelMedina, Eden. 2011. "Cybernetic revolutionaries: technology and politics in Allende's Chile". Mit Press:https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries"Designing Freedom" - The 1973 CBC Massey Lectures by Stafford Beer [audio]:https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-designing-freedom-1.2946819"Designing Freedom" - The 1973 CBC Massey Lectures by Stafford Beer [pdf via Internet Archive]:https://archive.org/details/designingfreedom00beer/mode/2upIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report:https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/ Wiki on the State Planning Committee (Gosplan):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GosplanWiki on János Kornai:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_KornaiFurther Future Histories Episodes on related topics:S02E11 | James Muldoon on Platform Socialism:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e11-james-muldoon-on-platform-socialism/S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/[German] S01E51 | Timo Daum zur unsichtbaren Hand des Plan:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e51-timo-daum-zur-unsichtbaren-hand-des-plans/S01E45 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism (part 2/2):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e45-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-2-2/S01E44 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism (part 1/2):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e44-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-1-2/[German] S01E19 | Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e19-jan-philipp-dapprich-zu-sozialistischer-planwirtschaft/ S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e16-richard-barbrook-on-imaginary-futures/ If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories):https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastor on Reddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/or on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRFz38oh9RH73-pWcME6ywwww.futurehistories.todayEpisode Keywords:#Half-Earth, #DrewPendergrass #TroyVettese #JanGroos, #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #Interview, #Socialism, #Planning, #SystemChange, #Capitalism, #Degrowth, #Democracy, #EnvironmentalCrisis, #EcologicalLimits, #Ecosocialism, #Climatemodel, #In-naturaCalculation, #LinearProgramming, #Cybernetics, #OttoNeurath, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning
COVID-19 radically reduced global productivity, but isn't that just what we need to combat climate change? Is there such a thing as a silver lining in this pandemic? In Episode 5, we continue the conversation about the relationship between COVID-19 and climate change. Three Weatherhead Center scholars guide us through the complex environmental and political systems that constrain efforts for systemic change, and discuss what needs to be done today.The second episode of this two-part podcast series looks more closely at the politics of COVID-19 and climate change and other countries' efforts to reduce fossil fuel use. As mentioned in part 1, the lynchpin of these two crises is land—how much of our planet's surface area is dedicated to raising and growing food for animals. Troy Vettese stresses that scientists have known about the dangers of close human contact with animals since the1800s and many organizations have urged the reduction of meat consumption for public health reasons. Robert Paarlberg elaborates on the origin of the virus, and describes the pandemic's impact on the African continent. Alicia Harley sees the pandemic as a wake up to advance grassroots momentum generated by the Green New Deal.Finally, our scholars debate the practicality and caveats of the Green New Deal, and what steps a new Biden Administration can take to address environmental needs from day one.Host:Kathleen Molony, Director, Weatherhead Scholars Program.Guests:Alicia Harley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School. PhD, Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Robert L. Paarlberg, Weatherhead Center Associate. Associate, Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School; Betty F. Johnson ‘44 Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College.Troy Vettese, Weatherhead Center William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada Program. PhD, Department of History, New York University.Producer/Director:Michelle Nicholasen, Editor and Content Producer, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.Related Links:"President Biden, Please Don't Get Into Carbon Farming" by Robert Paarlberg (Wired, January 2021)Resetting the Table: Straight Talk About the Food We Grow and Eat by Robert Paarlberg“Sustainability Science: Towards a Synthesis” by Alicia Harley and William C. Clark (Working Paper, 2019)“Debating Green Strategy” by Troy Vettese (New Left Review, May/June 2018)Half-Earth Socialism: A Manifesto to Save the Future by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass (Verso Books, forthcoming 2022)“The Climate Crisis and COVID-19 Are Inseparable” by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass (Jacobin, May 2020)“Covid-19, Food Systems, and Wild Animals” by Robert Paarlberg (Commentary, Center for Strategic and International Studies, October 21, 2020)Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:WCFIA WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteTwitterFacebookSimplecastSoundcloudVimeo
Troy Vettese on the relationship between infectious disease, industrial agriculture and environmental degradation and why meatworks have been at the centre of so many COVID-19 outbreaks.
COVID-19 forced radical change on the world, but isn't that just what we need to combat climate change? The simple concepts of how we use land and how we eat may very well determine the future of our species—and our planet. Three Weatherhead Center scholars guide us through the complex environmental and political systems that constrain efforts for systemic change, and discuss what needs to be done today.The first episode of this two-part podcast series looks at how COVID-19 and climate change are part of the same human-made crisis. The lynchpin of these two crises is land—how much of our planet's surface area is dedicated to raising and growing food for animals. Troy Vettese believes we will not be able to slow down the effects of climate change without giving up meat production, which is something human beings do not need to survive. But how can people be convinced to stop eating meat? Robert Paarlberg describes the vast improvements in agricultural output in recent decades and the known methods for protecting humans from animal viruses in the factory farm setting, as witnessed in Europe. Alicia Harley emphasizes the new momentum around climate change politics and demand for plant-based meats, both of which have increased during the pandemic.What a sustainable society would really look like and whether or not we can get to that goal without drastically changing our economy or our governance is a question of utmost urgency, and our scholars agree major steps must be taken in the next ten years.Host:Kathleen Molony, Director, Weatherhead Scholars Program.Guests:Alicia Harley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School; Lecturer in Environmental Science and Public Policy, Harvard College. PhD, Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Robert L. Paarlberg, Weatherhead Center Associate. Associate, Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School; Betty F. Johnson ‘44 Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College.Troy Vettese, Weatherhead Center William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada Program. PhD, Department of History, New York University.Producer/Director:Michelle Nicholasen, Editor and Content Producer, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.Related Links:Resetting the Table: Straight Talk About the Food We Grow and Eat by Robert Paarlberg“Sustainability Science: Towards a Synthesis” by Alicia Harley and William C. Clark (Annual Review of Environment and Resources, October 2020)“Debating Green Strategy” by Troy Vettese (New Left Review, May/June 2018)Half-Earth Socialism: A Manifesto to Save the Future by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass (Verso Books, forthcoming 2022)“The Climate Crisis and COVID-19 Are Inseparable” by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass (Jacobin, May 2020)“Covid-19, Food Systems, and Wild Animals” by Robert Paarlberg (Commentary, Center for Strategic and International Studies, October 21, 2020)Follow the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:WCFIA WebsiteEpicenter WebsiteTwitterFacebookSimplecastSoundcloudVimeo
The global crisis of our times — the climate emergency — has been temporary slowed by another worldwide disaster: the coronavirus pandemic. As industrial production, transport, and consumption have plummeted, so has the demand for fossil fuels. Environmental historian Troy Vettese places the fortunes of fossil fuels within a larger context over time, with an eye to what lies ahead. Resources: Troy Vettese, “Is This the End of the Oil Era?” New Statesman, April, 2020 The post The End of Oil? appeared first on KPFA.
While inaction seems to be the order of the day, at some point those in power may take measures against global warming—and the ecological and social effects of those measures may be alarming. What should the left advocate and struggle for? Environmental historian Troy Vettese discusses the idea of rewilding half the earth by replacing pasture land with forests and wilderness. Resources: Troy Vettese, “To Freeze the Thames: Natural Geo-Engineering and Biodiversity,” New Left Review, May-June 2018 The post Rewilding a Heating Planet appeared first on KPFA.
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