Anthropocene: A Word That Defines Our Time
We are all Anthropoceans now It is said that you don’t know what you’re feeling until it has a name. Ours is an ever-increasingly anxious era. Plagues and calamities abound. They aren’t the only thing that’s going on, of course. Technologies of all sorts are advancing at an exponential rate. That’s exciting. It’s possible that […]
Appendix II: Politics in the Anthropocene
Pima Precinct Pathway Guide This appendix presents a way to get to a detailed map of specific precincts in Pima County AZ. This could be useful to an on-the-ground team that wants to become familiar with a particular precinct by visiting library branches, coffee bars and cafes, juke joints, houses of worship, etc. Using this […]
Politics in the Anthropocene: Yes Virginia, All Politics Will Still Be Local in the Future, but the Definition of “Local” is Going to Change
2024 is shaping up to be a year of destiny for Planet Earth. Elections will be held in 64 countries plus the European Union. 49% of the world’s population will have the opportunity to cast ballots. None will be more important to the future than America’s where one candidate for the Presidency has declared that he intends […]
Appendix I: Politics in the Anthropocene
AZ-6 Precincts in Pima County First pass at analyzing with Particular Attention to Ones Where Fewer than 50% of the Eligible Voters Participated Precinct Number Turnout Ciscomani Votes Engel Votes Registered & didn’t vote (approx.) Yes on Prop 309 No on Prop 309 Comments 114 20% 154 125 1,350 143 129 Looks like the worst […]
Vintage Books: Anthropocean de Jour!
I’m a lover of books that literally bend to my will. The sooner I can fold the pages of a book back so that I’m holding the whole book in my hand while seeing only one half of a volume the better. Their tendency to break at the seams while I’m reading is one reason […]
A Great Place to Be From
I grew up in Louisville Kentucky in the 1950s and 60s. It was a strong and highly segregated culture. (Jefferson Davis was married there.) It was awash with musical crosscurrents. Harvey Fuqua, who founded The Moonglows was from there. PeeWee King, co-writer and performer of The Tennessee Waltz lived about a mile away from me. […]
The Security and Sustainability Guide: A Compass for the Anthropocene
This video discusses the Anthropocene, the Age of Humanity, a new geological era that began about 200 years ago. Most geological eras last for tens of thousands, if not millions of years. Unfortunately, the Age of Humanity is auditioning to be very short-lived. Humanity is in charge, but it’s evident that, much of the time, […]
Anomalies, Threat, Nonconformity, and Change: Is a New Science Emerging?
The Anthropocene is a shaky ride. Many belongings will shift during this wobbly flight. Like the warnings the Western world has been getting since 1000 AD that “the end of the world is nigh!” the fact that change is a constant in this era has been repeated so often that it’s become a boring cliché. […]
Ray Elman: Anthropocene de Jour!
Anthropoceans are inquisitive. While rigid religiosity is doing everything it can to oversimplify our ever-unfolding multidimensionality of this era, Anthropoceans accept the excitement, confusion, and terror of a present with no center and a spacetime that is bent by light in many/all directions simultaneously. Ray Elman is a vessel of this kind of curiosity. Ray, […]
Music ‘Cene
Nature’s Way by Spirit Brian Dobson’s comment on YouTube remains relevant: “I saw a Spirit concert right after this song came out. When they started playing this song people were screaming the usual way but once they heard the words and how unbelievable this song was all of a sudden nobody was making any noise. […]